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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Baptist Health 200

Homestead Miami Speedway

October 21st, 2023

Race #22 of the 2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 134
Miles Raced : 201.0
Time of Race : 01 Hours 48 minutes 41 seconds
Average Speed: 110.965 mph
Margin of Victory : 02.705 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 29
Lead Changes: 8

Corey Heim drives during the Baptist Health 200 — Homestead, Florida - October 21st, 2023: Corey Heim, driver of the #11 Chateau Elan/Explore Braselton Toyota, drives during the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Baptist Health Cancer Care 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Photo by James Gilbert | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Carson Hocevar	2	9	2	1	1	18	4.3	+1	57	47	+10	50	19	98.5%	11	134	129.0	50
Zane Smith	7	2	3	2	1	16	3.1	+5	37	29	+8	31	14	99.3%	34	134	128.7	51
Ben Rhodes	21	11	1	3	1	25	12.4	+18	66	45	+21	35	1	59.7%	22	134	82.2	35
Corey Heim	8	1	4	4	1	27	4.0	+4	43	39	+4	23	25	94.0%	57	134	128.6	53
Grant Enfinger	3	17	5	5	3	27	9.0	-2	69	49	+20	47	3	87.3%	0	134	103.5	38
Bayley Currey	17	3	6	6	2	18	7.9	+11	62	54	+8	44	0	92.5%	0	134	96.8	39
Stewart Friesen	9	5	7	7	5	20	7.9	+2	53	46	+7	40	1	95.5%	0	134	99.2	41
Matt Crafton	22	8	10	8	2	22	9.3	+14	65	56	+9	53	0	97.8%	0	134	90.8	35
Rajah Caruth	13	10	8	9	3	19	10.7	+4	65	54	+11	47	0	90.3%	0	134	85.7	28
Ty Majeski	4	6	12	10	1	23	7.1	-6	58	60	-2	43	11	92.5%	1	134	106.0	41
Chase Purdy	14	7	20	11	2	24	11.3	+3	73	70	+3	50	19	85.8%	0	134	86.1	30
Tanner Gray	6	20	11	12	1	26	14.2	-6	85	83	+2	48	0	64.9%	4	134	76.5	25
Jack Wood	11	25	15	13	2	27	16.5	-2	89	102	-13	32	3	36.6%	0	134	73.2	24
Taylor Gray	12	12	13	14	12	28	16.2	-2	69	61	+8	25	0	43.3%	0	134	72.0	23
Trevor Bayne	32	13	14	15	10	32	16.7	+17	64	56	+8	17	1	41.8%	0	134	66.8	0
Jake Garcia	15	15	16	16	8	26	17.0	-1	83	80	+3	25	0	29.1%	0	133	63.5	21
Dean Thompson	5	16	19	17	5	25	17.6	-12	64	85	-21	22	0	29.1%	0	133	64.2	20
Nicholas Sanchez	1	4	21	18	1	24	10.3	-17	44	60	-16	24	1	73.9%	5	133	88.2	29
Marco Andretti	27	24	9	19	3	27	20.7	+8	37	43	-6	11	0	21.6%	0	133	52.3	18
Lawless Alan	23	14	22	20	5	26	20.7	+3	66	68	-2	8	0	9.7%	0	133	53.5	17
Christian Eckes	10	27	24	21	2	29	13.6	-11	60	56	+4	30	0	64.9%	0	133	80.8	20
Daniel Dye	19	19	23	22	14	28	22.5	-3	56	61	-5	2	0	0.8%	0	133	46.3	15
Tyler Hill	26	26	17	23	4	30	23.1	+3	40	51	-11	12	0	15.7%	0	133	45.8	14
Nick Leitz	25	21	18	24	6	29	22.6	+1	56	57	-1	11	0	11.9%	0	133	41.0	13
Brad Perez	18	23	25	25	4	27	21.5	-7	59	61	-2	17	0	17.2%	0	133	53.2	0
Tyler Ankrum	16	29	26	26	2	31	19.0	-10	39	56	-17	14	0	41.0%	0	133	60.8	11
Jonathan Shafer	33	28	27	27	7	33	27.1	+6	29	32	-3	7	0	4.5%	0	132	38.5	10
Mason Maggio	29	30	28	28	23	32	28.3	+1	25	22	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	131	36.5	9
Hailie Deegan	20	18	30	29	15	31	25.5	-9	28	35	-7	2	1	0.8%	0	131	44.8	8
Memphis Villarreal	31	31	29	30	28	32	30.0	+1	16	15	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	131	31.3	7
Colby Howard	24	22	31	31	18	31	26.3	-7	29	43	-14	0	0	0.0%	0	129	42.5	6
Armani Williams	34	32	32	32	32	34	32.4	+2	2	1	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	121	26.5	5
Spencer Davis	28	34	33	33	28	34	33.6	-5	1	1	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	65	24.3	4
Spencer Boyd	30	33	34	34	28	32	32.7	-4	6	17	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	50	25.7	3

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Race Fast Facts

Homestead-Miami Speedway
Baptist Health Cancer Care 200
Race Winner: Carson Hocevar
Age: 20
Team : No. 42 - Worldwide Express Chevrolet
Owner: Niece Motorsports
Crew Chief: Phil Gould
Carson Hocevar won the Baptist Health Cancer Care 200, his fourth victory in 76 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races.
This is his fourth victory and 13th top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in two races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Zane Smith (second) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Homestead-Miami Speedway. It is his 11th top-10 finish in 2023.
Ben Rhodes (third) posted his third top-10 finish in seven races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Rajah Caruth (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Carson Hocevar, Grant Enfinger and Ben Rhodes join Corey Heim in clinching spots in the Championship 4
Chevrolet clinched the first championship title of the season in the NASCAR national ranks by earning the 2023 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series (NCTS) Manufacturer Championship. This marks the 11th time in NCTS history that Chevrolet has captured the title.

Race Recap

Carson Hocevar Takes the Checkered Flag at Miami; Joins, Corey Heim, Grant Enfinger and Ben Rhodes in Championship 4

October 21st, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Carson Hocevar secured his first NASCAR CRATSMAN Truck Series Championship 4 appearance with a victory Saturday in the Baptist Health Cancer Care 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway earning all four of his career series wins this season – the trophy Saturday most impactful among them.

Hocevar put his No. 42 Niece Motorsports Chevrolet into the lead with 11 laps remaining and held off the hard-charging Zane Smith by 2.705-seconds to claim the win over the reigning series champion, whose runner-up effort was disqualified by NASCAR after a post-race technical inspection found the defending series champion’s No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford was illegal – using an unapproved windshield support.

“We are disappointed in the disqualification,’’ Front Row Motorsports said in a statement after the NASCAR inspecition. “We will continue to work and discuss with NASCAR officials back at the NASCAR R&D Center in Concord, N.C. before making any further comment.’’

The DQ moved ThorSport Racing’s Ben Rhodes into runner-up on the afternoon helping him to advance to the Playoffs – prevailing in a tiebreaker with rookie Nick Sanchez; the polesitter who finished 17th after making contact with another truck coming to pit road for his final stop.

Regular season champion, TRICON Garage’s Corey Heim, GMS Racing’s Grant Enfinger and Hocevar’s Niece Motorsports teammate Bailey Curry rounded out the top five at Homestead.

Heim, Hocevar, Enfinger and Rhodes will now race for the championship Nov. 3 at Phoenix Raceway.

Hocevar celebrated the clutch win by climbing high atop the flag stand to claim the checkered flag in person. He threw it down to the cheering fans behind the fence then climbed back down on the grandstand side to high-five fans and celebrate the biggest win of his life – to date.

“It kills me I can’t do a burn-out but we have to take this truck to Phoenix,’’ a grinning Hocevar said. “This truck was so good. We just got behind on pit stops and just lost track position which was unfortunate, but man, it’s so good to feel [like this]. I love it.

“I thought we could win today with our truck, even with all the setbacks from the debris and everything, we had a shot to win and we did just that.’’

The battle for that final Playoff position was as dramatic as the fight for the victory.

Rhodes came into this final regular season race only five points behind Sanchez for the fourth championship-eligible transfer position. He finished 24th in the opening stage and 10th in the second stage. It still left him outside looking into the Championship 4, so Rhodes’ ThorSport team opted to pit for fresh tires early and out of pit sequence. The move allowed his No. 99 ThorSport Ford to take the race lead as the other frontrunners pit later.

He held the point with 30 laps remaining only to have Hocevar and Smith chase him back down. Hocevar passed him with 11 laps remaining, Smith a lap later.

“We failed Ben today, we didn’t give him a very good truck and he bailed us out at the end there,’’ Rhodes’ crew chief Rich Lushes said. “It was the only call we had. We had to do something different than everybody else and it all worked out so I guess we’re going to [championship] again.’’

It was a heartbreaking ending for the 22-year old Sanchez, who is from nearby Miami and raced often at Homestead-Miami Speedway as he was coming up the junior ranks. He won the pole and led the opening five laps, only to see his Playoff hopes in jeopardy after a miscue approaching his final pit stop with 34 laps remaining. His No. 2 Rev Racing Chevrolet hit the back of Tanner Gray’s truck as the two were slowing to enter pit road causing noticeable damage to Sanchez’ Chevrolet.

“Obviously I lost a lot of time there and just lost time in the pits trying to fix it,’’ Sanchez said. “Just my fault, no two ways to it. I really didn’t know the 15 was pitting and didn’t slow down [enough]. So that’s on me. I apologize to my team. They’re going to support me. To miss by one-point is pretty rough, but all you can do it go to Phoenix and try to win.’

Heim led a race best 57 of the 134 laps and swept both Stage victories. His third place finish marked the series best 15th-consecutive top-10 finish of the season.

“I really thought we had them covered today, I mean we were smoking the first two stages and kind of waiting on the third stage and then it went out like a light switch so we’ll look everything over,’’ Heim said, adding, “We’ve got bigger things on the horizon so we’ll focus on that.’’

Stewart Friesen, Matt Crafton, Rajah Caruth, Ty Majeski and Chase Purdy rounded out the top 10 finishing order. Majeski joins Smith, Sanchez and Christian Eckes to be eliminated from Playoff contention.

Eckes finished 20th after what looked like a sure-bet top-10 finish was hampered by penalties and miscues on the afternoon. He was called for moving lanes on a restart and another time for speeding on his pit road exit late in the race.

“We had a truck able to advance and just kept making mistakes,’’ Eckes said. “Just wasn’t good enough today.’’

IndyCar star Marco Andretti finished 18h in his second series start in the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet. He’s scheduled to race at Phoenix in two weeks.