Rajah Caruth wins NASCAR Truck race at Nashville Superspeedway

LEBANON, TENN. — A great pit crew and fierce defense earned Rajah Caruth a trip to victory lane in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Nashville Superspeedway.

After his crew pulled off another stellar pit stop that garnered him the lead, Rajah Caruth took off from Corey Heim and held him off in the mirror drive of his young NASCAR career to get his second career Truck Series win.

“I didn’t expect that all. Those guys were breathing down my neck that entire run. My guys won me the race, got us off pit road [in the lead] twice. We’ve been off this year but good to get it done tonight. I’m out of breathe,” Caruth said.

Caruth entered the night 13th in points, 17 points below the playoff cutline, with an average finish 2.7 positions off of what he accrued last season (14.3 to start 2025 vs. 11.6 in 2024). As a whole, Spire Motorsports has lacked speed in the Truck Series — as evidenced Friday by Kyle Busch only recovering to 14th after a penalty early on — but something was different for Caruth and teammate Corey Day, who finished fifth on the night.

Caruth finished third to Layne Riggs and Corey Heim in the first stage after making it through the early-race chaos.

STAGE ONE RESULTS (LAP 45): Layne Riggs, Corey Heim, Rajah Caruth, Daniel Hemric, Kaden Honeycutt, Corey Day, Grant Enfinger, Tyler Ankrum, Bayley Currey, Ben Rhodes

On pit road, Caruth’s crew gained him two spots, putting him in the lead as stage two formally went green on lap 53.

While Heim took it back after getting a great push from Layne Riggs on another quick restart, Caruth held on to finish third again — this time to Heim and Riggs — in stage two on lap 95.

STAGE TWO RESULTS (LAP 95): Heim, Riggs, Caruth, Day, Honeycutt, Enfinger, Currey, Hemric, Garcia and Ankrum

Again, on pit road during the stage break, Caruth’s crew gained him two positions and allowed him to take the lead.

The start of stage three was different. With Riggs in eighth after a slow pit stop, Caruth jumped ahead of Heim and pulled out to a one-second lead.

Heim had plenty of time to cool his tires and light the afterburner with Riggs in pursuit for the final 10 laps as they maneuvered lap traffic. At one point, Heim made a serious run on Caruth but Caruth defended well. From there, he used every trick in the book to aeroblock and run every lap clean to get the win.

“I just try my best and we had clean air. Their stuff was better but I did my best. And that was it,” Caruth said with a smile.

TOP-10 (LAP 150): Rajah Caruth, Corey Heim, Layne Riggs, Daniel Hemric, Corey Day, Kaden Honeycutt, Chandler Smith, Ty Majeski, Bayley Currey, Grant Enfinger.

Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.

A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.

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