Corey Heim's legendary 2025 NASCAR Truck Series season will be remembered forever

After a quick yellow flag, it was Majeski and Heim lined up on the front row for the final restart of the season — and one that would determine the champion. 

Majeski was looking to defend his 2024 title. Heim was hoping to finally grab the championship you could argue he deserved to win in both 2023 and 2024. 

By the time the field roared off turn 2 with a lap-and-a-half to go, the race was over, with Heim having cleared Majeski for the race lead. It was all Majeski could do to watch Heim drive into the desert night and take the title for himself. 

"I think at the end of the day, it just takes the experience to understand how to conquer adversity," Heim said in his post-race news conference. "To conquer adversity, I feel like you have to be in adversity. You have to learn how to get through those things."

"Just being put in a spot where you’re in 10th place on a green-white-checkered, having to go get after it, I feel like you had to be on the losing side of that once or twice to understand how to execute on that and actually win."

In both 2023 and 2024, Heim saw his championship hopes vanish in the closing laps at Phoenix. He wasn't going to let that happen again on Friday. 

"I’ve been on the losing side of it a lot of times in my truck career," Heim said. "I’ve gotten wiped out. I’ve wiped people out. It takes everything to understand. Sometimes you don’t like it at the end of the day. But as long as you can grow and learn from it, I think that’s the most important part.

Heim led multiple laps in all 25 races this season. He won nearly half of them, finished top five in 19 of them and top 10 in 21 of them. Historic doesn't even begin to describe his 2025 campaign.

Heim, who will almost certainly be full-time in the Cup Series in the near future (though not in 2026), would have every right to feel a little arrogant after decimating the Truck Series field. But the 23-year-old from Marietta, Georgia, is anything but. 

"I mean, just looking back at what we’ve been able to accomplish this year, a lot of it is because who on the 11 crew has made it happen," Heim said. "It’s such a team effort at the end of the day." 

Quotes provided by NASCAR Media.