by Reid Spencer – NASCAR Wire Service
Layne Riggs powers to dominant NASCAR Truck Collection victory at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park on Friday evening within the TSport 200.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—With a efficiency only a hair in need of perfection, Layne Riggs dominated Friday evening’s TSport 200 offered by Warn Industries and moved tantalizingly near the regular-season championship within the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Collection.
Layne Riggs: Dominant Victory
The driving force of the No. 34 Entrance Row Motorsports Ford led 198 of 200 laps, swept each phases and took the checkered flag 1.148 seconds forward of persistent runner-up Connor Mosack to say his second straight victory at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
“I believe it’s only a assertion win,” Riggs stated of his fifth triumph of the season and the tenth of his profession. “What a truck! I used to be simply on cruise management…”
So far as the sequence championship goes, Riggs pulled no punches.
“I believe we’re those to beat, for positive.”
Riggs’ solely bobble of the race got here on the lap 72 restart after the primary stage break. Selecting the popular high lane for the restart, he spun the tires and allowed his Entrance Row teammate Chandler Smith to take the lead for 2 laps.
On lap 74, nevertheless, Riggs made an emphatic cross of Smith, diving beneath Smith’s No. 38 truck getting into the primary flip and sliding up in entrance of his teammate within the second flip. From that time on, Riggs maintained management, although Mosack was capable of keep shut within the closing laps.
Ty Majeski, a two-time winner on the 0.686-mile quick monitor, completed third and remained solidly in sixth place within the Truck Collection standings with two races left within the common season. Smith got here house third, having clinched a berth within the postseason Chase—becoming a member of Riggs and Kaden Honeycutt—with a third-place run in Stage 1. Christian Eckes and Giovanni Ruggiero additionally added their names to the checklist of those that have clinched berths within the Chase.
Driving the identical Ford F-150 he raced in final yr’s IRP occasion, Riggs expanded his lead within the standings to 99 factors over second-place Honeycutt, who pitted late for contemporary tires and labored his approach as much as seventh by the top of Friday’s race.
With a strong sixth-place run, Stewart Friesen broke a tie with Tyler Ankrum (ninth Friday) for tenth within the standings, the final Chase-eligible place. With two races left to resolve the problem, Friesen holds an eight-point benefit over the driving force of the No. 18 McAnally Hilgemann Chevrolet.
Daniel Hemric’s maintain on a Chase spot all of a sudden turned extra tenuous when he spun within the third flip to trigger the one warning of the evening for an on-track incident. With no method to escape the wreck, Landen Lewis plowed into Hemric’s Chevy, eliminating each drivers from the race.
Hemric completed thirty fourth, fell to ninth within the standings and leads Ankrum, the primary driver beneath the present Chase reduce line, by solely 14 factors.
Nick Sanchez completed fifth within the No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet. Driving the No. 1 TRICON Storage Toyota, 18-year-old Gavan Boschele ran eighth in his Truck Collection debut.
“I had a aim,” stated Boschele, who will make his second begin within the sequence Aug. 22 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. “I informed myself I needed to run top-ten, and we did that. I can’t do with out these guys—the No. 1 American Land Companions Toyota group helped me be actually, actually quick tonight.“They a extremely good job to get me all the pieces I wanted and make me snug. Everybody on this workforce was actually strong, so I’m excited for the three extra that I’ve left this yr. We had been actually quick tonight.”
Friesen’s teammate and fellow modified driver Michael Christopher Jr. got here house tenth in his third Truck Collection outing.
Up Subsequent
The Truck Collection races subsequent on Aug. 14 at Richmond Raceway. The NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Collection Race at Richmond begins at 7:30 pm ET on FS1, NRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. The 2025 winner at this race is Corey Heim, with Tricon Storage.
