Folks, Kyle Larson has bagged his first win of the 2025 NASCAR season, and it happens to be a Truck Series race. The Hendrick Motorsports driver is always pushing the limits, and he was doing the same out here at Homestead Miami Speedway. And not just with the #7 truck, he’s running all three races of the weekend! The next stop is Xfinity and then the Cup Series. And with the first race in the bag, the NASCAR community wants a sweep!

Also, his Truck Series win was a pure display of classic Kyle Larson’s prowess. He’s only got the experience of running 16 races in the Truck Series. But Larson is different. Just give him anything with a wheel and four tires and he’d drive it to victory lane. For those of you who missed the race, Larson wasn’t having the best days. In fact, until the final few laps, it did not even seem like he’d win it. But thanks to Corey Heim’s car shutting down, and Larson’s exceptional skills of riding centimeters away from the wall, the 2021 Cup Series Champion has won his fourth career Truck Series race. Folks, ‘Yung Money’ is back to winning ways in 2025.

Kyle Larson might be unbeatable at Homestead this weekend!

Larson started the race from P3 and it being Homestead, he was deemed to be a front-runner as he’s got decent runs there in the Cup Series (1 win and 5 top 5s). However, his Spire Motorsports Truck wasn’t the fastest. Corey Heim was leading the day, be it qualifying, where he won the pole. Or even the majority part of the race. Heim won both stages and led a race-high 78 laps. In the final stage, to Heim’s good fortune, Kyle Larson spun around. Larson went a little too hard at Lane Riggs, made contact, and found himself behind the pack on the restart.

It looked like it would be ‘Heim time’ for the third time this season. But Kyle Larson was determined, and he chose the topmost line to pass traffic. Riding close to the wall gives drives the fastest speed at Homestead. And that was Larson’s strategy, and it worked! Larson was up to third in no time, with Heim leading, and Layne Riggs in P2. And at that very moment, Heim’s car shut off, giving Larson a chance to leap. And that was that. He took the lead and took the checkered. And naturally, was delighted with the win, which at one point in the race, seemed impossible.

In the post-race interview, Kyle Larson said, “Yeah, that was pretty unbelievable from my seat. I wasn’t exactly sure if I can get back up there. Didn’t have the restart that I wanted. Took a little bit too long to start picking em off. But got rippin’ the wall, both ends and it was really paying dividends in one and two for me and staying wound up. I caught some of the guys that were just doing good enough up there where I couldn’t get by and bog my momentum down. But got clear of them, then I’m not sure what happened to the #11. But that worked out in our favor for sure. I don’t think I would have gotten to him, obviously, I would have gotten to second probably but, it would have been tough to get to him.” 

And it’s always fun to watch Larson dominating, so obviously everyone’s greedy for more. Taking Larson’s pit interview was his Cup competitor, Austin Cindic. And the Team Penske #2 couldn’t help but pop the question about his plans for the sweep. To which Larson replied, “I don’t know. Gotta beat guys like you (Austin Cindric). So that’s gonna be tough. But I thought the truck race was probably gonna be the toughest to win. I’m not that experienced in them. The runs are typically shorter. And I feel I need longer runs like that last one to get going. So I feel better about Xfinity and Cup but the competition gets tougher and tougher. So we’ll see but off to a good start. We’ll try.”

And while Larson was having a great day, you have got to feel for Heim. When you lead most laps of the race, and win the first two stages, you’d expect a race win in the bag, not to finish it in P3. And with this, the curse of Homestead Miami seems to continue.

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It wasn’t ‘Heim-Time’ at Miami

Folks, we aren’t suggesting that Homestead has some voodoo stuff going on, but how can the day’s fastest truck suddenly shut down? And that too during the most crucial part of the race. Even Heim cannot explain it. The way he described it, it felt like some supernatural powers were at work. “I don’t know exactly what was going on. Never really had an issue like that. I’d be totally fine, and the engine would just hard cut [out] on me. Dash would go black and have no power until I fully cycled it. So, I was coasting for six seconds trying to turn the power switch and turn it back (on). I don’t know.”

Well, calling it supernatural might be a bit farfetched, but this still points to the curse of Homestead Miami. A driver has never won, the pole, the stages, and then also the race, ever in the track’s history. Tyler Reddick narrowly escaped this curse last season. He won the pole, won stage 1, but failed to win stage 2, and finished P4. But eventually went on to win the race! Even the 2022, Kyle Larson was P5 at the start. But won both stages and took the win, leading 199 laps.

Whatever it was, Heim was disappointed. Well, P3 was enough to become the points leader of the season so far and he’s eight points above Ty Majeski who ended up in P11. But this could have been Heim’s third win of the season and that too just four races in! In the post-race interview, he added, “I feel like we were lights out, the best truck tonight, think we should’ve won the race by six, seven seconds at the end there. I feel like at the beginning of the runs, I knew what we were capable of and let those guys get away, burn their stuff up, and then, fly past them. Felt I ran a really good race, saving tires, and would mow them down on the long runs there. This No. 11 Tundra TRD Pro was really, really good. This just stinks pretty bad.” As Larson walks away with the victory, Heim will rue his loss, but he can be proud of the speed he showed today.

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