Layne Riggs Near Unstoppable in Truck Series Win at IRP

Despite both starting at the front, they couldn’t keep Layne Riggs behind for long. Heim led the race’s first 20 laps, putting him over 1,000 laps led on the season. Then the No. 34 of Riggs was able to run him down, and he hardly looked back, as he took the lead on lap 21 and led the next 105 laps of the race. Front Row Motorsports certainly brought some power in this race, as Layne was pretty much untouchable, winning both stages.

By the end of the night, despite plenty of other challengers, including Stewart Friesen and Corey Day, Riggs led 160 laps en route to capturing his fourth career win.

Career Night For Hendrick Motorsports Development Driver

While Riggs was kicking butt, Corey Day was making the most of his first truck start in quite some time. Day, who has been making plenty of starts across several series in the sport, returned to the No.7 truck for Spire Motorsports for the first time since Nashville, where he scored his first career Top Five finish. The 19-year-old came to IRP looking to back up that run, and boy did he.

After starting 16th, Day quickly climbed through the field throughout the race and put himself into the top 10 throughout the night. Good pit stops and strong driving during restarts, when there were some, allowed Day to put himself in a good position to improve his fifth-place finish. A late charge on fresher tires saw Day pass Stewart Friesen to get to the second-place spot. Outside of Riggs’ domination, Day certainly had an awesome night.

Not bad for a kid who had never raced at IRP. He’s certainly starting to find his way, and a win could certainly be on the horizon.

Heim Time Takes Regular Season Crown

Despite leading the first 20 laps, IRP proved to be once again a challenge for Corey Heim. Heim wasn’t as strong as he had been all season, and his final result kind of showed that. Sure, he ended up with a third-place finish, but he wasn’t too happy with the performance of his truck following the race. Despite not enjoying the night, like he wanted, Heim did clinch the NASCAR Truck Series regular season title.

Heim was asked about winning the regular season following the race, and talked about how good they have been all season, and how IRP was the first race he felt they didn’t have an actual shot to win.

” Feels really good. Just a testament to how good I’ve been this year,” Heim said. ” I feel like this is probably the first race where I haven’t had a legitimate shot to compete for the win, so that really says something.”

Good Night Turns Sour for Truck Veteran

The Truck Series heads to Watkins Glen next, and ya never know what could happen there.