Pit Stops : Atlanta Motor Speedway

FR8 208

Saturday, February 22nd, 2025

Atlanta Motor Speedway , Hampton, GA

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  • Thursday, February 20th, 2025
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
CRAFTSMAN Truck Series to kick off Atlanta’s Saturday doubleheader

The NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series follows up its dramatic Daytona season-opener in the first half of Saturday’s NASCAR double-header at Atlanta Motor Speedway with the Fr8 Racing 208 (1:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Championship favorite Corey Heim was declared the winner of the Daytona opener after Parker Kligerman’s team was disqualified after post-race inspection. The turn of events earned Heim his first-ever visit to Daytona’s Victory Lane and gives him a slim 3-point advantage over 2024 series champion and Daytona third-place finisher Ty Majeski entering the Atlanta race.

The Daytona top-10 may be a good indicator of what to expect this season in terms of competitive highlights with perennial title-favorite Grant Enfinger (fourth) and a handful of talented full-timers joining the grid from Chandler Smith (sixth), who led a race best 34 laps, to former NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Daniel Hemric (seventh) and highly-touted rookie William Sawalich (ninth).

Frankie Muniz, the television and movie star, eager to cement a new career in fulltime NASCAR competition, finished a career best 10th-place at Daytona. Two-time series champion Ben Rhodes led 22 laps but finished 20th while young talents such as Rajah Caruth and Tyler Ankrum were collected in crashes.

Among the fulltime drivers, there are three former Atlanta race winners entered this weekend, including Heim, who hoisted the trophy in 2022, Enfinger, who won in 2020 and Matt Crafton, the 2015 winner.

Kyle Busch is the seven-time and defending race winner and will be competing Saturday in the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet.

  • Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • Fr8 208
  • Pole Winner: Connor Mosack
  • Age: 26
  • Team : No 81 - Friends of Jaclyn Foundation Chevrolet
  • Owner: Mona Hilgemann
  • Crew Chief: Blake Bainbridge
  • Connor Mosack won the Pole Award for the Fr8 208 with a lap of 31969 seconds, 173418 mph
  • This is his first pole in 13 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races
  • This is his first pole and first top-10 start in 2025
  • This is his first pole in one races at Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • Grant Enfinger (second) posted his second top-10 start of 2025 and his seventh in ten races at Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • Daniel Hemric (third) posted his second top-10 start at Atlanta Motor Speedway It is his first in two races this season
  • Connor Mosack (first) was the fastest qualifying rookie

  • Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Busch just beats Friesen at the line to win Truck race at Atlanta

With seven previous NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Atlanta Motor Speedway trophies already on his mantle, Kyle Busch was obviously the odds-on favorite for Saturday’s Fr8 Racing 208. And the veteran absolutely did not disappoint.

Pulling ahead of Stewart Friesen about 20 yards from the finish line, Busch’s No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet held on for a slight .017-second win as the two passed side-by-side under the checkered flag. It was Busch’s record eighth series victory at the track. He led a race high 80 of the 135 laps but, definitely earned his hardware this weekend with a half dozen trucks going door-to-door with the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion in the closing 20 laps.

“Awesome run for this Spire Chevrolet and everybody at [sponsor] Gainbridge,” Busch said, thanking the fans in the grandstands for coming out in the cloudy 50-degree Atlanta weather.

“Just trying to make sure I stayed as far forward as I possibly could,” Busch said of how he held off the field in the closing laps “Those guys would cycle to me and get to the next one in front, next one in front of me and I just made sure to keep battling back and got back to the front so I could control it the best I could. That inside [lane] was good, they were rolling forward so it made for a heck of a race.”

“I’m proud we had a heck of a race there to the finish and it wasn’t single file. There was some mixing it up for these fans out here to see a cool show.”

As elated as Busch was in claiming his record 67th NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series win – and record 232nd national series win – Friesen could only muster a slight smile conceding he gave it his best in the thrilling finish.

“Just proud of my race team here,” the Canadian owner-driver of the No. 52 Halmer-Friesen Toyota said. “We had a shot. This is my favorite truck and we’ll keep digging with it. We had a shot and I guess I got too far off my help there coming off the back on my last lap. I thought I could pack some more air on him coming out of three and surge ahead, but just had the surge at the wrong time and he came back.”

With Busch and Friesen ultimately the pair fighting for the checkered flag, Tyler Ankrum and Bailey Curry crossed the finish line side-by-side just behind, a mere .001-second separating the two. Georgia native Chandler Smith finished fifth. All of these drivers giving Busch a challenge in those last laps.

Caden Honeycutt, two-time series champion Ben Rhodes, reigning series champion Ty Majeski, Jake Garcia and Grant Enfinger rounded out the top-10 in a race that saw 19 lead changes among 11 drivers and only a pair of caution flags beyond the scheduled stage breaks.

Of note, championship favorite Corey Heim ran out of gas running third a single lap before the Stage 2 break and was never able to make up the three laps he lost to that, finishing 23rd. It was also a rough ending for 25-year old rookie Connor Mosack, who earned his first series pole position and led 30 laps, but was involved in a late race incident and finished 25th.

Jack Wood won the opening stage and Busch claimed the second stage win. Giovanni Ruggiero was the top finishing rookie in 11th place. Tanner Gray earned an additional championship point for claiming the Fastest Lap Bonus.

  • Drivers Entered: 33
  • Laps Scheduled: 135
  • Margin of Victory: 0.017 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 1 Hours 46 Minutes 52 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 116.725
  • Cautions: 4 for 28 laps
  • Lead Changes: 19
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,927 (18.0 passes per green flag lap)

  • Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • Fr8 Racing 208
  • Race Winner: Kyle Busch
  • Age: 39
  • Team : No 7 - Gainbridge Chevrolet
  • Owner: Jeff Dickerson
  • Crew Chief: Brian Pattie
  • Kyle Busch won the Fr8 Racing 208, his 67th victory in 176 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races
  • This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2025
  • This is his eighth victory and 12th top-10 finish in 15 races at Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • Stewart Friesen (second) posted his fifth top-10 finish in nine races at Atlanta Motor Speedway It is his first top-10 finish in 2025
  • Tyler Ankrum (third) posted his second top-10 finish in six races at Atlanta Motor Speedway
  • Giovanni Ruggiero (11th) was the highest finishing rookie
  • Grant Enfinger leads the point standings by 1 points over Ty Majeski
  • Fastest Lap Bonus Winner: #15 Tanner Gray
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Pit Stop Summary Report

Summary of each driver's pit stop during the race. Detailed Report is below the Summary Report.

Average Driver and Crew Pit Stop Time
FR8 208 at Atlanta Motor Speedway Pit Stop Summary
DRIVER ST FIN STATUS PIT STOPS AVG DRVR TIME DRVR RANK AVG CREW TIME CREW RANK AVG TTL TIME TTL RANK FST STOP SLW STOP
Rajah Caruth 4 29 Accident 2 59.116 8 8.960 1 68.076 1 67.946 68.206
Daniel Hemric 3 16 Running 2 58.576 5 13.490 2 72.066 2 68.900 75.231
Kaden Honeycutt 25 6 Running 2 58.446 3 13.870 3 72.316 3 68.251 76.380
Giovanni Ruggiero 22 11 Running 2 59.751 15 14.010 4 73.761 4 69.723 77.799
Corey Heim 19 23 Running 2 58.307 1 15.980 6 74.287 5 73.043 75.531
Grant Enfinger 2 10 Running 1 58.578 6 16.380 7 74.958 6 74.958 74.958
Connor Mosack 1 25 Running 1 58.445 2 17.000 9 75.445 7 75.445 75.445
Jake Garcia 6 9 Running 2 59.869 16 15.950 5 75.819 8 69.734 81.903
Kyle Busch 9 1 Running 1 58.913 7 19.760 15 78.673 9 78.673 78.673
Dawson Sutton 15 17 Running 2 62.132 24 16.590 8 78.722 10 72.065 85.379
Chandler Smith 28 5 Running 1 59.207 9 19.600 12 78.807 11 78.807 78.807
Matt Crafton 11 22 Running 1 59.234 10 19.720 13 78.954 12 78.954 78.954
Tyler Ankrum 7 3 Running 1 60.063 18 19.480 11 79.543 13 79.543 79.543
Bayley Currey 30 4 Running 2 59.342 12 20.300 16 79.642 14 79.532 79.751
Michael McDowell 17 12 Running 2 59.305 11 20.480 17 79.785 15 74.944 84.625
Jack Wood 5 21 Running 1 59.738 14 20.960 18 80.698 16 80.698 80.698
Andres Perez de Lara 14 27 Suspension 1 61.672 23 19.740 14 81.412 17 81.412 81.412
Ben Rhodes 10 7 Running 1 58.499 4 23.460 23 81.959 18 81.959 81.959
William Sawalich 23 30 Accident 2 60.993 21 21.080 19 82.073 19 81.961 82.184
Toni Breidinger 18 24 Running 2 63.348 27 18.920 10 82.268 20 80.575 83.960
Tanner Gray 26 15 Running 2 59.936 17 23.650 24 83.586 21 82.937 84.234
Matt Mills 24 13 Running 2 62.602 25 21.240 20 83.842 22 77.262 90.421
Frankie Muniz 21 26 Accident 1 61.458 22 23.300 22 84.758 23 84.758 84.758
Stewart Friesen 8 2 Running 1 60.321 19 25.620 25 85.941 24 85.941 85.941
Justin Carroll 32 28 Engine 1 63.295 26 22.840 21 86.135 25 86.135 86.135
Luke Fenhaus 13 14 Running 1 59.703 13 26.860 27 86.563 26 86.563 86.563
Nathan Byrd 20 31 Accident 1 60.789 20 26.060 26 86.849 27 86.849 86.849
Spencer Boyd 27 19 Running 1 64.350 29 27.580 28 91.930 28 91.930 91.930
Josh Reaume 29 18 Running 2 63.744 28 28.840 29 92.584 29 92.030 93.138

Pit Stop Detailed Report

Each 2- and 4-wheel pit stop during the race.

FR8 208 at Atlanta Motor Speedway Pit Stop Detail
DRIVER LDR LAP DRV LAP DRV TIME CREW TIME TOT TIME TYPE
Kyle Busch 62 62 58.913 19.760 78.673 4-wheel change
Michael McDowell 62 62 58.304 16.640 74.944 4-wheel change
Michael McDowell 81 81 60.305 24.320 84.625 4-wheel change
Grant Enfinger 62 62 58.578 16.380 74.958 4-wheel change
Matt Crafton 109 107 59.234 19.720 78.954 4-wheel change
Daniel Hemric 62 62 59.740 9.160 68.900 Right-sides only
Daniel Hemric 33 33 57.411 17.820 75.231 4-wheel change
Bayley Currey 33 33 59.072 20.460 79.532 4-wheel change
Bayley Currey 62 62 59.611 20.140 79.751 4-wheel change
Spencer Boyd 108 108 64.350 27.580 91.930 4-wheel change
Matt Mills 62 62 60.262 17.000 77.262 4-wheel change
Matt Mills 33 33 64.941 25.480 90.421 4-wheel change
Josh Reaume 33 33 63.910 28.120 92.030 4-wheel change
Josh Reaume 62 62 63.578 29.560 93.138 4-wheel change
Stewart Friesen 62 62 60.321 25.620 85.941 4-wheel change
Ben Rhodes 62 62 58.499 23.460 81.959 4-wheel change
Tyler Ankrum 62 62 60.063 19.480 79.543 4-wheel change
Chandler Smith 62 62 59.207 19.600 78.807 4-wheel change
Tanner Gray 33 33 60.637 22.300 82.937 4-wheel change
Tanner Gray 62 62 59.234 25.000 84.234 4-wheel change
Corey Heim 109 106 57.683 15.360 73.043 4-wheel change
Corey Heim 64 60 58.931 16.600 75.531 4-wheel change
Jack Wood 62 62 59.738 20.960 80.698 4-wheel change
Rajah Caruth 62 62 59.206 8.740 67.946 Right-sides only
Rajah Caruth 33 33 59.026 9.180 68.206 Right-sides only
Jake Garcia 33 33 58.934 10.800 69.734 Right-sides only
Jake Garcia 62 62 60.803 21.100 81.903 4-wheel change
Justin Carroll 63 62 63.295 22.840 86.135 4-wheel change
Kaden Honeycutt 33 33 58.691 9.560 68.251 Right-sides only
Kaden Honeycutt 62 62 58.200 18.180 76.380 4-wheel change
Connor Mosack 62 62 58.445 17.000 75.445 4-wheel change
William Sawalich 62 62 60.261 21.700 81.961 4-wheel change
William Sawalich 33 33 61.724 20.460 82.184 4-wheel change
Toni Breidinger 63 62 63.975 16.600 80.575 4-wheel change
Toni Breidinger 34 33 62.720 21.240 83.960 4-wheel change
Frankie Muniz 33 33 61.458 23.300 84.758 4-wheel change
Dawson Sutton 65 65 61.745 10.320 72.065 Left-sides only
Dawson Sutton 33 33 62.519 22.860 85.379 4-wheel change
Andres Perez de Lara 33 33 61.672 19.740 81.412 4-wheel change
Luke Fenhaus 33 33 59.703 26.860 86.563 4-wheel change
Nathan Byrd 33 33 60.789 26.060 86.849 4-wheel change
Giovanni Ruggiero 33 33 60.323 9.400 69.723 Right-sides only
Giovanni Ruggiero 62 62 59.179 18.620 77.799 4-wheel change