The 2025 Fr8 208 was the 2nd stock car race of the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and the 17th iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia, a 1.54 miles (2.48 km) permanent asphalt quad-oval shaped intermediate speedway (with superspeedway rules). The race took the scheduled 135 laps to complete. Kyle Busch, driving for Spire Motorsports, would hold off Stewart Friesen in a close finish, and ultimately put on a dominating performance, winning the second stage and leading a race-high 80 laps to earn his 67th NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win, and his first of the season.[8] To fill out the podium, Tyler Ankrum, driving for McAnally-Hilgemann Racing, would finish in 3rd, respectively.
This race also saw the debut of a new radio network, the NASCAR Racing Network (NRN), a collaboration between Motor Racing Network (who previously broadcast the entire Truck Series schedule on the radio) and Performance Racing Network, to broadcast the entire Truck Series schedule starting at this race.[9]
Report
Background

Atlanta Motor Speedway is a 1.54-mile race track in Hampton, Georgia, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of Atlanta. It has annually hosted NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series stock car races since 2004.
The venue was bought by Speedway Motorsports in 1990. In 1994, 46 condominiums were built over the northeastern side of the track. In 1997, to standardize the track with Speedway Motorsports' other two intermediate ovals, the entire track was almost completely rebuilt. The frontstretch and backstretch were swapped, and the configuration of the track was changed from oval to quad-oval, with a new official length of 1.54-mile (2.48 km) where before it was 1.522-mile (2.449 km). The project made the track one of the fastest on the NASCAR circuit. In July 2021 NASCAR announced that the track would be reprofiled for the 2022 season to have 28 degrees of banking and would be narrowed from 55 to 40 feet which the track claims will turn racing at the track similar to restrictor plate superspeedways. Despite the reprofiling being criticized by drivers, construction began in August 2021 and wrapped up in December 2021.[10][11] The track has seating capacity of 71,000 to 125,000 people depending on the tracks configuration.
Entry list
- (R) denotes rookie driver.
- (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.
Qualifying
Qualifying was held on Friday, February 21, at 3:05 PM EST.[12] Since Atlanta Motor Speedway is an intermediate track with superspeedway rules, the qualifying procedure used is a single-car, single-lap system with two rounds. In the first round, drivers have one lap to set a time and determine positions 11-32. The fastest ten drivers from the first round will advance to the second round, and whoever sets the fastest time in Round 2 will win the pole and determine the rest of the starting lineup.[13]
Connor Mosack, driving for McAnally-Hilgemann Racing, would win the pole after advancing from the preliminary round and setting the fastest time in Round 2, with a lap of 31.969, and a speed of 173.418 mph (279.089 km/h).[14]
No drivers would fail to qualify.
Qualifying results
Race results
Stage 1 Laps: 30
Pos. | # | Driver | Team | Make | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 91 | Jack Wood | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 10 |
2 | 34 | Layne Riggs | Front Row Motorsports | Ford | 9 |
3 | 9 | Grant Enfinger | CR7 Motorsports | Chevrolet | 8 |
4 | 81 | Connor Mosack (R) | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 7 |
5 | 7 | Kyle Busch (i) | Spire Motorsports | Chevrolet | 0 |
6 | 11 | Corey Heim | Tricon Garage | Toyota | 5 |
7 | 52 | Stewart Friesen | Halmar Friesen Racing | Toyota | 4 |
8 | 18 | Tyler Ankrum | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 3 |
9 | 19 | Daniel Hemric | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 2 |
10 | 71 | Rajah Caruth | Spire Motorsports | Chevrolet | 1 |
Stage 2 Laps: 30
Pos. | # | Driver | Team | Make | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Kyle Busch (i) | Spire Motorsports | Chevrolet | 0 |
2 | 98 | Ty Majeski | ThorSport Racing | Ford | 9 |
3 | 9 | Grant Enfinger | CR7 Motorsports | Chevrolet | 8 |
4 | 07 | Michael McDowell (i) | Spire Motorsports | Chevrolet | 0 |
5 | 45 | Kaden Honeycutt | Niece Motorsports | Chevrolet | 6 |
6 | 91 | Jack Wood | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 5 |
7 | 81 | Connor Mosack (R) | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 4 |
8 | 52 | Stewart Friesen | Halmar Friesen Racing | Toyota | 3 |
9 | 38 | Chandler Smith | Front Row Motorsports | Ford | 2 |
10 | 19 | Daniel Hemric | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 1 |
Stage 3 Laps: 75
Fin[15] | St | # | Driver | Team | Make | Laps | Led | Status | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 9 | 7 | Kyle Busch (i) | Spire Motorsports | Chevrolet | 135 | 80 | Running | 0 |
2 | 8 | 52 | Stewart Friesen | Halmar Friesen Racing | Toyota | 135 | 1 | Running | 43 |
3 | 7 | 18 | Tyler Ankrum | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 135 | 0 | Running | 38 |
4 | 30 | 44 | Bayley Currey | Niece Motorsports | Chevrolet | 135 | 0 | Running | 33 |
5 | 28 | 38 | Chandler Smith | Front Row Motorsports | Ford | 135 | 2 | Running | 34 |
6 | 25 | 45 | Kaden Honeycutt | Niece Motorsports | Chevrolet | 135 | 0 | Running | 37 |
7 | 10 | 99 | Ben Rhodes | ThorSport Racing | Ford | 135 | 0 | Running | 30 |
8 | 12 | 98 | Ty Majeski | ThorSport Racing | Ford | 135 | 1 | Running | 38 |
9 | 6 | 13 | Jake Garcia | ThorSport Racing | Ford | 135 | 0 | Running | 28 |
10 | 2 | 9 | Grant Enfinger | CR7 Motorsports | Chevrolet | 135 | 1 | Running | 44 |
11 | 22 | 17 | Gio Ruggiero (R) | Tricon Garage | Toyota | 135 | 0 | Running | 26 |
12 | 17 | 07 | Michael McDowell (i) | Spire Motorsports | Chevrolet | 135 | 0 | Running | 0 |
13 | 24 | 42 | Matt Mills | Niece Motorsports | Chevrolet | 135 | 0 | Running | 24 |
14 | 13 | 66 | Luke Fenhaus | ThorSport Racing | Ford | 135 | 2 | Running | 23 |
15 | 26 | 15 | Tanner Gray | Tricon Garage | Toyota | 135 | 0 | Running | 23 |
16 | 3 | 19 | Daniel Hemric | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 135 | 1 | Running | 25 |
17 | 15 | 26 | Dawson Sutton (R) | Rackley W.A.R. | Chevrolet | 135 | 0 | Running | 20 |
18 | 29 | 22 | Josh Reaume | Reaume Brothers Racing | Ford | 135 | 0 | Running | 19 |
19 | 27 | 76 | Spencer Boyd | Freedom Racing Enterprises | Chevrolet | 135 | 0 | Running | 18 |
20 | 16 | 34 | Layne Riggs | Front Row Motorsports | Ford | 134 | 0 | Running | 17 |
21 | 5 | 91 | Jack Wood | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 133 | 4 | Running | 31 |
22 | 11 | 88 | Matt Crafton | ThorSport Racing | Ford | 133 | 0 | Running | 15 |
23 | 19 | 11 | Corey Heim | Tricon Garage | Toyota | 132 | 5 | Running | 20 |
24 | 18 | 5 | Toni Breidinger (R) | Tricon Garage | Toyota | 132 | 0 | Running | 13 |
25 | 1 | 81 | Connor Mosack (R) | McAnally-Hilgemann Racing | Chevrolet | 131 | 30 | Running | 24 |
26 | 21 | 33 | Frankie Muniz (R) | Reaume Brothers Racing | Ford | 106 | 0 | Accident | 11 |
27 | 14 | 77 | Andrés Pérez de Lara (R) | Spire Motorsports | Chevrolet | 96 | 0 | Suspension | 10 |
28 | 32 | 90 | Justin Carroll | TC Motorsports | Toyota | 75 | 0 | Engine | 9 |
29 | 4 | 71 | Rajah Caruth | Spire Motorsports | Chevrolet | 74 | 8 | Accident | 10 |
30 | 23 | 1 | William Sawalich (i) | Tricon Garage | Toyota | 74 | 0 | Accident | 0 |
31 | 20 | 02 | Nathan Byrd | Young's Motorsports | Chevrolet | 73 | 0 | Accident | 6 |
32 | 31 | 2 | Keith McGee | Reaume Brothers Racing | Ford | 43 | 0 | Electrical | 5 |
Official race results |
Standings after the race
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References
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