INDIANAPOLIS — The post-race celebration mentioned all of it.
Layne Riggs planted the nostril of his No. 34 Entrance Row Motorsports Ford firmly in opposition to the skin of the pit row wall and lit up his tires as members of his workforce stood on the barrier and pumped their fists repeatedly.
The elation was well-deserved after Riggs scored his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection victory at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in Friday night time’s TSport 200.
Together with his second victory of the season and a sweep of the primary two levels, Riggs reduce into the dominant lead of Corey Heim with two races left within the common season.
Nonetheless, Heim, who ran third in a balky No. 11 Toyota, clinched the regular-season title.
“I’ll inform you, this truck was bad-ass, man,” Riggs mentioned after climbing from the F-150 on pit highway. “It was so nice. I used to be simply out entrance saving my tires on the finish. Then I used to be simply ready for a late-race warning (which by no means got here), attempting to run the underside and attempting to maintain the least quantity of distance to maintain the gap off my tires.
“It’s so nice to get (sponsor) Clew Nicotine Pouches in victory lane. That’s solely their second race with us, and we’re tremendous excited to have them. That was a fairly cool celebration.”
Riggs led 160 of the 200 laps on the 0.686-mile brief observe and beat Corey Day to the end line by 1.864 seconds. The runner-up end result was a career-best for Day, who had run fifth at Nashville Superspeedway in his most up-to-date Truck Collection outing.
“It was good to again up Nashville,” mentioned Day, 19, who’s operating part-time schedules with Spire Motorsports within the Truck Collection and Hendrick Motorsports within the NASCAR Xfinity Collection. “I used to be telling everybody it clicked, and it felt prefer it clicked, however except I come right here and again it up, it means nothing.
“I’m actually glad to lastly be delivering outcomes. I’ve been working actually, actually onerous at this to be delivering outcomes, and I actually need to be doing the burnout up there.”
Stewart Friesen parlayed an early pit cease within the second stage into an ostensible third-place end however was disqualified after failing peak necessities in post-race inspection. The disqualification ruined an astute strategic name by the No.52 workforce.
Grant Enfinger ran fourth. Reigning collection champion Ty Majeski, presently the final driver above the elimination line for the 10-driver Playoffs, got here house fifth after Friesen’s disqualification and prolonged his benefit over ThorSport racing teammate Jake Garcia (fifteenth Friday) from 38 to 61 factors.
Chandler Smith, Daniel Hemric, Tyler Ankrum, Ross Chastain and Rajah Caruth accomplished the highest 10.
