{"id":182975,"date":"2025-08-28T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/182975\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:39:11","slug":"corey-heim-starts-nascar-truck-series-playoffs-as-clear-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/182975\/","title":{"rendered":"Corey Heim Starts NASCAR Truck Series Playoffs as Clear Favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DARLINGTON, SC, \u2013 <\/strong>There\u2019s an unmistakable frontrunner as the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Playoffs open with Saturday\u2019s Sober or Slammer 200 at Darlington Raceway (12 noon ET on FS1, NRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).<\/p>\n<p>A seven-time winner this season, Heim enters the first round of the Playoffs with a 62-point margin above the current elimination line\u2014more than a full-race \u201cmulligan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the TRICON Garage driver knows a crash or part failure can change the dynamic of the Playoffs in short order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like our mind-set as far as our 11 crew and the organization with TRICON is to prepare to the best of our ability in the same way that we have for most of the races this year and just to really hone in on everything, if not elevate everything, to make sure that we cannot have any failures or anything crazy like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd also, just continue to bring the speed that we have throughout the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heim enters the Playoffs on a two-race winning streak, but 1.366-mile Darlington has been a trouble track for the series leader. In four starts at the Lady in Black, Heim has a best finish of eighth and an average finish of 20.5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Reid Spencer | NASCAR Wire Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"989\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/25-ncts-soberslammer200-entry-list-989x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-425910\"  \/><strong>2025 NCTS Sober or Slammer 200 at Darlington Raceway \u2013 Race #19 Entry List<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DARLINGTON, SC, \u2013 There\u2019s an unmistakable frontrunner as the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Playoffs open with Saturday\u2019s Sober&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-182975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}