Spire Motorsports' No. 7 finished the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series regular season fourth among all entries, on 617 points, and it is in the ten-truck championship field. Connor Mosack, who made eight starts in it, finished 22nd in the driver standings on 221 points and is not in the ten-driver field.
That is not a glitch. It is how the two championships work, and this year it produced a Chase, the series playoff, in which the ten trucks and the ten drivers are substantially different sets.
Four drivers are racing in trucks that are not
| Driver (driver seed) | Truck | Owner points | Owner rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Enfinger (7th) | No. 9, CR7 Motorsports | 466 | 12th |
| Daniel Hemric (8th) | No. 19, McAnally Hilgemann | 450 | 13th |
| Ben Rhodes (9th) | No. 99, ThorSport | 446 | 14th |
| Tyler Ankrum (10th) | No. 18, McAnally Hilgemann | 415 | 16th |
Read that last row twice. Tyler Ankrum is 10th in the driver standings, which is inside the cut, and 16th in the owner standings, which is not. Those are two different championships and he is in one of them.
Four trucks are racing without one
| Truck | Team | Owner points | Owner rank | A driver of it, and his driver rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 7 | Spire Motorsports | 617 | 4th | Connor Mosack, 22nd |
| No. 1 | TRICON Garage | 561 | 5th | Corey Heim, 17th |
| No. 77 | Spire Motorsports | 526 | 8th | Tristan McKee, 37th |
| No. 45 | Niece Motorsports | 511 | 9th | Landen Lewis, 23rd |
None of those four entries has a driver in the ten-driver field, and the documents settle it rather than leaving it to trust: every one of the ten seeded drivers ran all 18 races in his own truck, so none of them was ever in any of these four.
Six entries appear on both lists. Four differ in each direction.
Why the lists diverge
A truck banks points from whoever drives it. A driver who competes full time in the Cup or O'Reilly Series and enters a Truck race as a one-off cannot bank anything for himself. The results sheet marks him with an (i) and explains it in a single line at the bottom of the page: ineligible for driver points in this series.
The points those drivers score are real. They simply belong to the entry rather than to a person. Run that for eighteen races and a truck can reach fourth in its championship while nobody who has driven it is close to the top of the other one.
Halmar Friesen Racing lost on both sides of the sheet
The team ran two full-time trucks and won a race, and it is in neither championship.
Its No. 62 finished 11th in owner points on 493, the first entry outside the field. That truck carries the team's only win of 2026, taken by Christopher Bell, a Cup Series regular running a selected Truck race, at Bristol in April. Under the rule above, that win paid the truck and paid Bell nothing in this series.
Its No. 52 finished 17th on 408, which is also Stewart Friesen's driver total, seven points behind Tyler Ankrum for the last driver spot.
One organization. Two full-time trucks. A race win in April. Nothing in either title.
What the reset did to everyone else
The ten seeded drivers were placed on a ladder between 2,030 and 2,100: 25 points between first and second, 10 between second and third, 5 between every pair after that. The order did not change at all. Layne Riggs led Ankrum by 410 points before the reset and by 70 after it. The owner field was reset the same way ten minutes later.
Everyone from 11th down keeps their regular-season total, because the reset only touches the field. Friesen 408, Jake Garcia 404, Brenden Queen 364, Andres Perez De Lara 355, Justin Haley 352. Before the reset Friesen was 7 points out of the championship. After it he is 1,692 points out. That is not a gap he might close. It is what elimination looks like written down as points.
One caveat. NASCAR published the tables. It did not publish the arithmetic that produced them, and this piece is not going to invent it. Everything above is read off the documents.
The next race is at Bristol Motor Speedway on September 17. Ten drivers and ten trucks go to it chasing two championships, and only six of them are doing it together.