The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series runs tonight at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego, on a temporary street course laid out across a working U.S. Navy installation. The Navy 250 (7 p.m. ET, FS1, radio on NRN) goes 50 laps and 170 miles, and it is the 12th road course in Truck Series history and only the second street circuit the series has ever run, after St. Petersburg. Add a seven-time Cup champion making his first Truck start in nearly 18 years and a points lead worth 26 markers, and this is the most unusual night on the 2026 schedule.
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The format. Fifty laps, 170 miles, stages closing on laps 12, 24, and 50. The purse is $789,700. A street layout means concrete walls, almost no runoff, and a premium on brakes and patience that a Truck field rarely gets to rehearse. Track position will be hard to earn and harder to give back, and stage breaks on a circuit with one viable line tend to bunch the field and erase whatever gap the leaders build. Expect the math to stay close to the end.
The championship. Layne Riggs, in the Front Row No. 34, leads Kaden Honeycutt, in the TRICON No. 11, by 26 points. Riggs has been the hottest driver in the series: two wins and a 2.3 average finish over the last four races, against a 15.4 average in the eight before that. The cushion is real, but a street debut is exactly the kind of variable that flattens form. Behind the top two the cutoff math tightens fast. Four drivers, from Tyler Ankrum down through Daniel Hemric to Stewart Friesen, are stacked within 14 points, with six races left to the regular-season cutoff. Chevrolet, and specifically the TRICON and Front Row camps, have won the last eight road-course races, so the pre-race weight sits with the usual road-course Chevy crowd even on a track nobody has data for.
The road-course king. Corey Heim leads the series in laps led (228) and owns the best road-course record in Truck history with five wins. A brand-new street layout is the rare road course where his notebook is blank, which is part of what makes tonight worth watching. His TRICON teammate Honeycutt, meanwhile, broke through for his first career Truck win at Watkins Glen in May, also a road course. Earlier this month at Michigan, Heim held Honeycutt off for the win. The teammate dynamic at TRICON matters on a track that rewards whoever finds clean air and clean corners first.
The veterans. Jimmie Johnson, seven-time Cup champion and now a Legacy Motor Club owner, makes his first Truck Series start since Bristol in August 2008. He is also the hometown story: Johnson grew up in El Cajon, about 21 miles from the circuit. Jamie McMurray returns for his first Truck start since October 2008, in the No. 25 RAM All-Star truck. Brendan Gaughan and Justin Marks are in the field as well. None are championship factors, but a street course is the kind of event where veteran patience can outrun raw speed.
The locals. Beyond Johnson, several California drivers race close to home: Austin Varco of Chula Vista, about 10 miles away, Tyler Ankrum of San Bernardino, and Justin Marks.
One milestone. Chandler Smith makes his 100th career Truck Series start tonight.
The Navy 250 opens three days of NASCAR at Coronado, with the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series on Saturday and the Cup Series on Sunday. Green flag is 7 p.m. ET on FS1.