Seven drivers are already locked within the 10-driver playoffs, 5 by wins (Christian Eckes, Corey Heim, Nick Sanchez, Rajah Caruth and Ty Majeski) – and two on factors (Grant Enfinger and Tyler Ankrum).
Three spots stay to be determined from the outcomes of the Richmond race and a number of drivers stay within the hunt.
Taylor Grey, Ben Rhodes and Tanner Grey presently maintain the ultimate three berths primarily based on factors – however a win by any of them, or anybody under them in factors, might tremendously shakeup the standings.
Daniel Dye sits simply 5 factors behind Tanner Grey in eleventh. Stewart Friesen is twelfth (16 factors behind the cutoff) and three-time Truck champion Matt Crafton is thirteenth (43 factors again).
The race for the win ought to be vast open as Enfinger (2020) is the one earlier winner on the observe entered. Crafton has essentially the most begins (9).
Eckes vs. Heim
Other than the win itself, the battle for sequence’ common season title holds its personal particular significance.
Eckes and Heim have gone toe-to-toe nearly all season, however Eckes presently holds a 50-point benefit on Heim, though Heim leads the sequence in wins (5). The winner of the common season title picks up a further 15 playoff factors for the championship battle.
Eckes will clinch the title if he accumulates not less than 11 factors within the race.
“I really feel fairly good about the place we’re at as a staff and the pace we’ve in our Chevrolets. We’ve wanted a bit extra right here and there, however total, we’ve been in a position to put ourselves up entrance fairly persistently,” Eckes mentioned.
“I believe we will proceed that at Richmond, and it will be good to lock up the common season title. That was one in all our objectives to start out the season. It’s simply one other step within the strategy of the place we wish to be and undoubtedly wanting ahead to conserving this momentum going into the playoffs.”
Christian Eckes, McAnally Hilgemann Racing, Adaptive One Calipers Chevrolet Silverado
Picture by: John Harrelson / NKP / Motorsport Pictures
Eckes can be eighth completely different driver to win the common season title since its inception, becoming a member of Christopher Bell (2017), Johnny Sauter (2018), Enfinger (2019), Austin Hill (2020), John Hunter Nemechek (2021), Zane Smith (2022) and Heim (2023).
Along with the playoff ramifications, two different noteworthy drivers are entered in Saturday night time’s race.
Trans Am and ARCA star Connor Zilisch will run drive Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 Chevrolet within the race. Earlier this week, Zilisch was introduced as the brand new full-time driver of JR Motorsports’ No. 88 Chevrolet within the Xfinity Sequence in 2025.
Connor Corridor, the 2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Components Weekly Sequence nationwide champion, will make his sequence debut within the race, driving the No. 91 McAnally-Hilgemann Racing Chevrolet. Corridor, a local of Hampton, Va., leads the CARS Tour late mannequin inventory division standings.
