Chandler Smith wins the NASCAR Truck Sequence race at North Wilkesboro Speedway as a rivalry simmers Saturday afternoon within the Window World 250.
NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C.—Chandler Smith owes Entrance Row Motorsports teammate Layne Riggs a vote of thanks after Saturday’s Window World 250 at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Chandler Smith Wins at North Wilkesboro
After Riggs’ Ford slid up into the No. 11 Toyota of Corey Heim within the second flip of the ultimate lap, Smith took the lead and held on for the win, his first on the 0.625-mile quick observe and his second of the season within the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Sequence.
Heim, who led 162 of 255 laps, left North Wilkesboro with a Seventeenth-place end and a percolating rivalry with Riggs, his nemesis all through the race.
Driving on tires that had been 68 laps older than Smith’s, Heim had the lead for the time beyond regulation restart on lap 254. He shortly cleared Smith on his inside and Riggs behind him, however Riggs mounted a powerful run via the third and fourth activates the white-flag lap and steered to Heim’s inside.
Riggs slid up into Heim’s truck, which turned sideways as Smith claimed the lead and headed for the end line with Riggs in his wake. Smith’s margin of victory over his teammate was 0.611 seconds.
The ultimate time beyond regulation lap was the one one Smith led on Saturday in amassing his seventh profession Truck Sequence win.
“I really feel like this place… tires type of mattered however in addition they type of didn’t,” stated Smith, who began from the rear of the sphere after unapproved changes to repair a break concern in his No. 38 Ford. “I didn’t assume we had been pretty much as good because the 11—clearly we had a tire benefit on him there.
“That final restart, I did all the pieces however the best factor. My teammate, Layne Riggs, executed completely, and we got here out on the best finish of the stick.”
Corey Heim versus Layne Riggs
Heim likely would take exception to the characterization “good execution.”
On a lap 81 restart after the primary stage break, Riggs ran Heim towards the surface wall, stalling each groups. The Stage 2 win went to Grant Enfinger.
Then got here the controversy in time beyond regulation.
After the race, Heim briefly expressed his displeasure to Riggs on pit street.
“He tried to do it to the 7 (Carson Hocevar) final week for the win, and mission completed for him, I assume, this week,” Heim stated. “And it value him one, too. I don’t know. We’ve given up so lots of them this 12 months, after dominating the race.
“The 38 (Smith) was the one different man that was rightfully good. I felt like he deserved to win over anybody else, not the 34 (Riggs). I bought actually unfastened into (flip) three. Simply struggled being unfastened on the quick runs, and he had a possibility to wreck me. Simply disillusioned.”
Layne Riggs’ Aspect of the Story
Predictably, Riggs had a unique notion of the ultimate lap.
“I really feel like he bought actually unfastened into (turns) three and 4 and type of gave the underside up, and we’re facet by facet on the frontstretch,” Riggs stated. “I had an enormous run, and I went backside. I didn’t fence him. I slid him up the observe and gave him one lane there.
“It’s North Wilkesboro on the final lap for a truck win. I really feel like I didn’t actually do something mistaken there.”
After the last-lap melee, Tyler Ankrum completed third, adopted by Daniel Hemric and Enfinger. Defending sequence champion Ty Majeski, Giovanni Ruggiero, Kaden Honeycutt, Kyle Busch, and Sammy Smith accomplished the highest ten.
Busch’s efforts had been hampered by a pair of pit street dashing penalties in his second begin of the season.
Heim retained the sequence lead by 47 factors over Chandler Smith in second place. Daniel Hemric, Tyler Ankrum, and Grant Enfinger full the highest 5. Rounding out the highest ten are Ty Majeski, Jake Garcia, Layne Riggs, Kaden Honeycutt, and Stewart Friesen.
Up Subsequent
The NASCAR Truck Sequence now heads to Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday, Could twenty third. The North Carolina Schooling Lottery 200 begins at 8:30 pm ET on MRN, NASCAR Racing Community, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. Nick Sanchez within the No. 48 is the defending winner.
