30-03-2025
NASCAR Truck Driver Layne Riggs Slams Martinsville: 'I Hate This Racetrack'
Layne Riggs is one of the top young drivers in the NASCAR Truck Series. The 23-year-old recorded his first two career wins in 2024 at Milwaukee and Bristol and won Rookie of the Year honors. In 2025, he's already scored a pair of top fives through the season's first five races.
On Friday night at Martinsville, the Front Row Motorsports driver finished 11th and earned it. That's because he was spun out early in the race on Lap 24.
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After the race on the half-mile track, the No. 34 driver didn't sugarcoat what he thought of the incident and the overall racing at The Paper Clip.
Layne Riggs before NASCAR Truck Series championship at Phoenix J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
'I said it earlier. I'm a short track guy and I love short track racing,' Riggs told a reporter after the race. 'But I hate this racetrack in a national series level. It's really sad when the late model race here is the cleanest one there is.
'It's just so crazy in the Truck series. You're doing everything right. You're running your right line. You're running the bottom, protecting the bottom like you should be and then the guy that's five back hits him, he hits him, he hits him, he hits him, and then you get hit, and then you get spun around. It's like, who do you even get mad at at that point?
'And then you know, you're doing everything right. It's just really annoying.'
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Riggs and his fellow Truck Series competitors have a week off. The trucks return to action on another short track at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 11. Race coverage begins at 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1.
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