Layne Riggs North Wilkesboro Race Report

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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (May 20, 2024) - Layne Riggs competed at the North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway this past weekend for the first time in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series. With qualifying being rained out and the race moved to Sunday, Riggs and the team were forced to start in the back and battle their way to the front. Fighting a tight race truck, Riggs stuck around the top-15 and top-25 before finishing Stage 1 in the 23rd position. Crew Chief Dylan Cappello made the call to give Riggs the track position he needed to battle within the top-5 in Stage Two, running as high as 2nd place. Still battling a tight race truck and opting to not pit in order to keep track position, Riggs finished Stage 2 in the 5th position. Electing to keep the track position, Cappello kept Riggs out of the pits to give the rookie driver a chance to compete for the win. Riggs continued to battle a tight race truck, holding him back from the leader and finished the race in the 3rd position, tying his career best finish in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series.

Start: 23rd

Stage One: 23rd

Stage Two: 5th

Race Results: 3rd

No. 38 Infinity Communications Group Ford F-150:

DRIVER LAYNE RIGGS:

“We did a great job considering no qualifying and we had to start at the back. My crew chief did a great job getting some track position and he did his math to realize that we didn’t need to pit for tires. We had a really good truck today. I fought really tight at the end, and we pitted so early on in the race that we didn’t really have a chance to adjust it later on and the track changed, so it definitely got a lot tighter than we thought it was going to be. It was a great job by everybody from Front Row Motorsports and thanks to Infinity Communications for being on board, Ford Performance and this Ford F-150. It was great day for us. We really needed this confidence-booster.”

THIS TIES YOUR BEST FINISH FROM IRP LAST YEAR. “We really needed this run today. We’ve really been in a drought, and we just needed a good, solid finish for once. We had a third or fourth place truck and we finished third and that’s what we needed to do. The pit crew did a good job all day. My crew chief did a good job taking no tires. We really, really deserved this finish, so it’s a great confidence-booster for us.”

YOU HELD YOUR OWN UP FRONT. “We did. The truck was really tight, but track position was just worth so much. The top groove was so strong. It was hard to make a pass on the bottom, so my short track experience definitely paid off and made the most of it.”