Corey Heim won the Anduril 250 at the San Diego Street Course on Sunday, the first NASCAR Cup Series race ever run at Naval Base Coronado, and the official scoring report awarded him nothing for it.
That is not a clerical error. Heim is a full-time Truck Series driver who entered the Cup race as a one-off in the 23XI Racing No. 67, and cross-entered drivers are ineligible for Cup Series driver points. The win counts. The points do not. It was the first Cup Series victory of Heim's career, recorded in a championship he is not running.
He earned it in the final three laps, and against his own team. Heim, who started 13th, ran behind 23XI Racing teammate Tyler Reddick late in the 75-lap race before Reddick overdrove Turn 2 on lap 73 and made contact, pushing Heim's No. 67 toward the wall. Reddick gave the position back rather than beat a teammate on contact, then cut a left-front tire and fell to 25th. Heim held on to win by 10.365 seconds over Bubba Wallace across 255 miles on the 3.4-mile street circuit, the first 1-2 finish in 23XI Racing history, with Wallace recovering from a two-lap pit penalty. Kyle Larson finished third, Zane Smith fourth, and AJ Allmendinger fifth. It was Heim's first Cup win, and it came on Father's Day.
The circuit took its toll. A nine-car wreck in Turn 1 on lap 32 brought out a red flag, and Christopher Bell's engine had failed on lap 28. Thirty-nine cars took the green; fewer finished on the lead lap.
Because the winner banked no points, the day's largest haul went to Wallace, the highest-finishing full-time entry. The standings reflect it. Tyler Reddick still leads with 716 points, eight ahead of Denny Hamlin and 133 in front of third-place Ryan Blaney.
The Cup Series races next at Sonoma Raceway on June 28. The points it pays there will count.
Elsewhere on the San Diego street course this weekend: Austin Hill won Saturday's O'Reilly Series race, and Layne Riggs won Friday's Truck race and took firm control of that championship.