TC Daily Pit Stop: Grant Enfinger Gets New Crew Chief for Final Five Races; What is Next for Eliminated Drivers?; Corey Heim is Ready for Cup
TC Daily Pit Stop: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Jeff Stankiewicz, CR7 Motorsports Parting Ways
As the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series heads to New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) this weekend for the first of two elimination races in the NASCAR Playoffs, one driver will be tackling the race without their usual crew chief.
Grant Enfinger, driver of the No. 9 Chevrolet Silverado RST for CR7 Motorsports, will be without long-time crew chief Jeff Stankiewicz for Saturday’s Team EJP 175 at the one-mile oval, as well as the final four races of the NASCAR Truck Series campaign.
Michael Shelton, a championship-winning crew chief in his own right (with James Buescher and Turner-Scott Motorsports in 2012), will take over as interim crew chief for CR7 Motorsports, beginning with this weekend’s event in Loudon, New Hampshire.
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After Playoff Exit, What’s Next For Bowman, Austin Dillon, SVG, and Berry?
The 16-driver NASCAR Cup Series Playoff field was whittled down to just 12 drivers after 500 laps of wild unpredictability at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday in the Bass Pro Shops Night Race. Saturday night’s race served as the end of the line as far as the 2025 championship aspirations go for Alex Bowman, Austin Dillon, Shane van Gisbergen, and Josh Berry.
Bowman went down swinging as he found himself in a position to potentially win Saturday night’s race, but ultimately didn’t have enough tires to contend for the win in the final laps. Bowman would exit the Playoffs with an eighth-place run.
It was a rough night for the other three drivers, who failed to advance as van Gisbergen finished 26th, Dillon was 28th, and Berry suffered his third last-place finish in the three races of the Round of 16 after a fire broke out on his No. 21 Ford on Lap 76 of the event.
What’s next for the four drivers and teams who were bounced from the Playoffs in the opening round?
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SRIGLEY: Sixth-Place Run at Bristol Proves Corey Heim's Cup Worthiness
In just his seventh career start in the NASCAR Cup Series, Corey Heim was able to navigate the unexpected chaos of Saturday's Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, recording his first career top-10 finish -- and likely, the first of many.
The Marietta, Georgia-native piloted his No. 67 Robinhood Toyota Camry XSE to a sixth-place finish in one of the most bizarre and drastically different events that the NASCAR Cup Series (barring a similar situation with a different tire in the Spring of 2024) has seen in quite some time.
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