Layne Riggs
2026 Season: NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
● Playoff eligibleThrough August 22, 2026
Roles
- Driver, Front Row Motorsports
Coverage (10 articles)
At 5:26 on Saturday Layne Riggs Led by 410 Points. At 5:27 He Led by 70. Nobody Passed Him.
NASCAR published two sets of Truck Series standings one minute apart on Saturday, the same ten drivers in the same order, with Layne Riggs on 825 points and then on 2,100. What the playoff reset actually did, what it did not do, and why the truck championship is not the same ten as the driver championship.
Stewart Friesen Missed the Truck Chase by Seven Points. His Team's Only Win This Season Came From Someone Else.
Friesen finished fourth in the Truck Series regular-season finale at New Hampshire, the best result of any driver outside the playoff field, and still missed the ten-driver Chase by seven points. His team fielded two trucks this season and won a race in April. Neither the truck nor the driver made the championship.
Layne Riggs Lost the Lead for Two Laps. He Spent the Other 198 in Front.
Riggs gave up the lead once, for two laps, and immediately took it back. He led the other 198, swept both stages and left Indianapolis Raceway Park 100 points clear with two races left before the playoffs.
The Best Truck Driver at IRP Hasn't Won a Race in 20 Months. He Gets Three Chances, Starting Tonight.
Ty Majeski has two wins and the best average finish in the track's history. His team has not won in 40 races. The next three races are the three best ovals of his career.
Chandler Smith Wins the FaithFest 250 at North Wilkesboro for His Ninth Truck Series Victory
Chandler Smith led the final 105 laps of the FaithFest 250 for his ninth career Truck Series win at North Wilkesboro, beating his own Front Row Motorsports teammate and points leader Layne Riggs to the line. Riggs still leaves with a bigger points lead than he arrived with.
Grant Enfinger Backed Into a Win at Lime Rock. North Wilkesboro Will Say If It Meant Anything.
Grant Enfinger backed into a Lime Rock win and a playoff spot. At North Wilkesboro he defends it from a pack of short-track natives, including Kaulig's Brenden Queen and Justin Haley. A preview of Saturday's FaithFest 250.
The Two Fastest Trucks at Lime Rock Didn't Win. Grant Enfinger Did.
The two fastest trucks at Lime Rock did not win the race. Grant Enfinger, who wasn't the fastest, did, passing cleanly for his first road-course win and first victory in more than a season, on the afternoon the two championship leaders wrecked each other.
The Truck Series' Last Road Course of the Year Is at a Track That Can't Race on Sundays
The Craftsman Truck Series runs its final road course of the year Saturday at Lime Rock Park, a Connecticut track a 1959 court order still bars from racing on Sundays. Points leader Layne Riggs, a road-course specialist, arrives with the biggest championship lead anyone has held all season. The road-course ringers are circling.
Layne Riggs Wins at San Diego and Stretches His Truck Series Points Lead
Layne Riggs won the inaugural Truck Series race at San Diego and stretched his championship lead from 26 points to 65 as nearest rival Kaden Honeycutt crashed out. It was Riggs's ninth career Truck win and his third in five starts.
Jimmie Johnson Goes Home: A Seven-Time Champion Returns to the Trucks, 21 Miles From Where He Grew Up
Jimmie Johnson hasn't run a Craftsman Truck Series race since 2008. Friday night he climbs back in one for the Navy 250, the series' first race on an active military base, 21 miles from his El Cajon hometown. Jamie McMurray is making his own long-awaited return, and a real championship fight is going on underneath it all.