The 2025 Mission 176 at The Glen was the 17th stock car race of the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and the 7th iteration of the event after a four-year absence of Truck racing at Watkins Glen International. The race was held on Friday, August 8, 2025, at Watkins Glen International<nowiki/>in Watkins Glen, New York, a permanent road course. The race was contested over 81 laps, extended from 72 laps due to a triple-overtime finish.
In a wild ending with numerous cautions, Corey Heim, driving for Tricon Garage, would survive a triple-overtime thriller and held off Daniel Hemric on the final lap to earn his 17th career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win, his sixth of the season, and his fourth consecutive win on a road course. Heim was the dominant driver of the race as well, winning the first stage and led a race-high 44 laps. Gio Ruggiero rounded out the podium in third, while Christopher Bell and Tyler Ankrum rounded out the top five.
Watkins Glen International (nicknamed "The Glen") is an automobile race track located in Watkins Glen, New York at the southern tip of Seneca Lake. It was long known around the world as the home of the Formula One United States Grand Prix, which it hosted for twenty consecutive years (1961âÂÂ1980), but the site has been home to road racing of nearly every class, including the World Sportscar Championship, Trans-Am, Can-Am, NASCAR Cup Series, the International Motor Sports Association and the IndyCar Series.
Initially, public roads in the village were used for the race course. In 1956 a permanent circuit for the race was built. In 1968 the race was extended to six hours, becoming the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen. The circuit's current layout has more or less been the same since 1971, although a chicane was installed at the uphill Esses in 1975 to slow cars through these corners, where there was a fatality during practice at the 1973 United States Grand Prix. The chicane was removed in 1985, but another chicane called the "Inner Loop" was installed in 1992 after J.D. McDuffie's fatal accident during the previous year's NASCAR Winston Cup event.
The circuit is known as the Mecca of North American road racing and is a very popular venue among fans and drivers. The facility is currently owned by International Speedway Corporation.
The first and only practice session was held on Friday, August 8, at 11:35 AM EST, and would last for 50 minutes. Connor Zilisch, driving for Niece Motorsports, would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 1:12.487, and a speed of .
Qualifying will be held on Friday, August 8, at 12:40 PM EST. Since Watkins Glen International is a road course, the qualifying procedure used is a two-group system, with one round. Drivers will be separated into two groups, A and B. Each driver will have multiple laps to set a time. Whoever sets the fastest time between both groups will win the pole.
Under a 2021 rule change, the timing line in road course qualifying is "not" the start-finish line. Instead, the timing line for qualifying will be set at the exit of Turn 9. Corey Heim, driving for Tricon Garage, would score the pole for the race, with a lap of 1:10.953, and a speed of .
No drivers would fail to qualify.
Stage 1 Laps: 20
Stage 2 Laps: 20
Stage 3 Laps: 41