The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series — Complete Guide to NASCAR's Third National Series

The 2026 Championship Picture

Kaden Honeycutt carries the points lead into the summer — the breakout story of the Truck Series season. Behind him, the title fight features some of the most consistent names in the garage:

• Corey Heim (TRICON Garage) — the dominant winner of the past two seasons and the driver everyone is chasing on speed.
• Chandler Smith and Layne Riggs (Front Row Motorsports) — week-in, week-out contenders.
• Christian Eckes, Gio Ruggiero, Ben Rhodes, Stewart Friesen, and Ty Majeski — a deep field of past winners and a former series champion (Majeski, ThorSport Racing).

The full, live board — including the owner standings — is on the standings page.

Teams and Manufacturers

Four manufacturers now compete in the series — Chevrolet, Toyota, Ford, and RAM:

• TRICON Garage (Toyota) — Corey Heim and Gio Ruggiero; the team to beat.
• Front Row Motorsports (Ford) — Layne Riggs and Chandler Smith.
• Spire Motorsports (Chevrolet) — multi-truck program.
• Halmar Friesen Racing (Toyota) — owner-driver Stewart Friesen.
• ThorSport Racing (Ford) — veteran Ty Majeski.
• Kaulig Racing (RAM) — the series' newest manufacturer story, fielding a multi-truck RAM fleet that includes Justin Haley's No. 16 and a No. 25 driven by action-sports star Travis Pastrana.

2026 Storylines

Kaden Honeycutt's breakout. A CARS Tour graduate, Honeycutt has put together the season of his career — highlighted by a rare ARCA-and-Truck same-day sweep at Watkins Glen (only the second driver to do it) and the first weekend sweep in CARS Tour history — and now leads the Truck championship.

Corey Heim's standard. TRICON Garage's Heim remains the benchmark for raw speed and laps led, the driver the title contenders measure themselves against.

Remembering Kyle Busch. Busch's final career victory came in the Truck Series at Dover on May 15, 2026 — a record fifth Dover Truck win, leading 147 of 200 laps and sweeping the stages — days before his death on May 21. The following weekend at Charlotte, Layne Riggs bowed to the crowd in Busch's honor after winning the truck race, one of the sport's most-felt tributes of the season.

History at Dover. In that same Dover race, Dystany Spurlock became the first Black woman to start a NASCAR national series race — a milestone moment for the sport.

RAM returns. Kaulig Racing's expansion brought the RAM nameplate back to the series, with Travis Pastrana's No. 25 debut adding star power to an already-deep field.

Notable 2026 Races

The series runs one of its toughest stretches in early summer — including Michigan International Speedway in June — before the championship is settled at Phoenix Raceway in November. The complete calendar is on the 2026 Craftsman Truck Series schedule.