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Honeycutt Dominates Kansas and Takes the Truck Series Lead as Riggs Hits the Wall
Kaden Honeycutt led 111 of 134 laps at Kansas Speedway and turned a three-point deficit into a 37-point lead in the Truck Series Chase. Layne Riggs was running second with two laps left when he hit the wall and fell to 19th.
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.
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 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.
Honeycutt Beats Zilisch and SVG for His First Truck Win at The Glen
Kaden Honeycutt won his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Friday at Watkins Glen, and did it by beating Connor Zilisch and Shane van Gisbergen, the two drivers who have dominated NASCAR road courses for two years. He also won the ARCA race at the same track earlier the same day, becoming the second driver in history to sweep both. Honeycutt now leads the Truck Series championship by 29 points.