Heim snags Mid-Ohio Truck pole and chance at $150,000

While Friday practice session at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course took place in predominantly dry condition, when it came to qualifying, it finally began raining and NASCAR elected to hold the session with rain tires.

Between the two 15-minute group sessions in Round 1, there were nearly two dozen incidents of trucks spinning out, running off-course or wrecking.

NASCAR elected to cancel the final round of qualifying due to standing water on the track and awarded the pole to Heim, whose lap in the Group B session (69.181 mph) ended up the fastest.

Heim’s lap was more than 23 mph slower than Zane Smith’s quick lap in practice, which took place on a dry track.

Saturday’s race is the final of three in the Triple Truck Challenge, which pays a $50,000 bonus to the winner. Since Heim, 20, won one of the previous two Challenge races (Gateway), he will collect an extra $150,000 if he claims his third win of the 2022 season.

“We had some pretty good dry laps in practice and I think I have a pretty good idea how it will be (tomorrow),” Heim said. “I think we made a lot of progress.

“Track position is key here. I ran a TA (Trans-Am) 2 race here a couple weeks ago. I started in the 15th or 16th range and it was really, really hard to pass.”

Parker Kligerman will line up second, followed by Carson Hocevar, John Hunter Nemechek, Matt Crafton, Matt DiBenedetto, Tyler Ankrum, Justin Marks, Dylan Lupton and Taylor Gray.

Cla	#	Driver		Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	Mph
1	51	Corey Heim		Toyota	4	1'57.500			69.181
2	25	Matt DiBenedetto		Chevrolet	5	1'59.330	1.830	1.830	68.120
3	16	Tyler Ankrum		Toyota	4	1'59.995	2.495	0.665	67.743
4	41	Justin Marks		Chevrolet	7	2'00.506	3.006	0.511	67.456
5	17	Taylor Gray		Ford	6	2'02.227	4.727	1.721	66.506
6	38	Zane Smith		Ford	6	2'03.780	6.280	1.553	65.671
7	22	Austin Wayne Self		Chevrolet	5	2'03.821	6.321	0.041	65.650
8	99	Ben Rhodes		Toyota	5	2'04.431	6.931	0.610	65.328
9	02	Kaz Grala		Chevrolet	6	2'05.495	7.995	1.064	64.774
10	98	Christian Eckes		Toyota	5	2'06.640	9.140	1.145	64.188
11	66	Ty Majeski		Toyota	5	2'06.937	9.437	0.297	64.038
12	19	Derek Kraus		Chevrolet	4	2'07.115	9.615	0.178	63.948
13	46	Mason Filippi		Ford	5	2'07.614	10.114	0.499	63.698
14	24	Jack Wood		Chevrolet	5	2'08.345	10.845	0.731	63.336
15	45	Alan Lawless		Chevrolet	5	2'08.722	11.222	0.377	63.150
16	91	Colby Howard		Chevrolet	4	2'09.391	11.891	0.669	62.824
17	33	Kenko Miura		Toyota	3	2'21.379	23.879	11.988	57.497
18	44	Kris Wright		Chevrolet	3	2'22.732	25.232	1.353	56.951