August 26, 2024 | By Holly Cain, NASCAR Wire Service

Layne Riggs Captures First Truck Series Win at Milwaukee Mile

WEST ALLIS, Wis. — For the second-straight day, a second-generation rising NASCAR racing star earned his first-career win. This time it was 22-year-old Layne Riggs claiming the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series victory in Sunday’s Playoff-opening LiUNAI 175! at the historic Milwaukee Mile.

Riggs, son of former NASCAR competitor Scott Riggs, took the lead from Ty Majeski with 53 laps remaining and pulled away to a solid 1.547-second victory over the Wisconsin native and a super-motivated group of Playoff drivers, making the rookie driver’s effort all the more impressive.

Riggs victory in the No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford comes a day after 23-year-old Harrison Burton – son of former NASCAR star Jeff Burton – earned his first-career win in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

“I don’t even know how to describe it,’’ said an emotional Riggs, making only his 23rd start in the series, saying he knew in practice his truck was going to be in contention. “It’s awesome.’

“We’ve had a terrible year, it’s been an awful year, but I’ve learned so much though in my rookie season. After the start I thought there’s no way we’re going to get a win, we’ll do the best we can and just learn for next year. But I knew in practice this thing [today] was awesome.’’

Riggs was so happy and demonstrative that he dislocated his shoulder pumping his arms high in celebration – his team rushed over to help. And it certainly appeared Riggs was okay by the time he hugged his father trackside.

“Dislocated my shoulder I was celebrating so hard, but it was worth it,’’ Riggs said smiling.

Eight of the 10 Playoff drivers finished just behind Riggs, including Majeski, the defending race winner and polesitter who led 45 of the 175 laps in the No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford. McAnally-Hilgemann Racing’s Christian Eckes was third – leading a race high 71 laps in his No. 19 Chevrolet. REV Racing’s Nick Sanchez and TRICON Garage’s Taylor Gray rounded out the top-five.

McAnally-Hilgemann’s Tyler Ankrum, TRICON Garage’s Corey Heim, McAnally-Hilgemann’s Daniel Dye and reigning series champion, ThorSport Racing’s Ben Rhodes rounded out the top-nine finishers – all Playoff drivers. Three-time series champion Matt Crafton was 10th.

“I was leading on the bottom and it shot up the race track and just couldn’t recover, I was way too tight’’ said Eckes, who paced the field for much of the afternoon and collected a series best ninth stage win.

He now holds a 16-point advantage over Majeski atop the Playoff standings. Heim is third, only 19 points back.

“Proud of everybody but a pretty big missed-opportunity,’’ Eckes said.

The other two Playoff drivers, Grant Enfinger, driver of the No. 9 CR7 Motorsports Chevy, finished 13th and Rajah Caruth, driver of the No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevy rallied to an 18th place finish after starting from the rear of the grid.

With two more races remaining in this opening round and eight of the 10 drivers advancing, Rhodes is two points behind Enfinger for that all-important eighth Playoff position and Caruth is only four points back.

Round 2 of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season championship takes place Sept. 19 in a special Thursday night edition (8 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), from Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway where Heim is the defending race winner.


NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Race Number 17
Race Results for the LiUNA! 175 - Sunday, August 25, 2024
The Milwaukee Mile - West Allis, WI - 1. - Mile Paved

Total Race Length - 175 Laps - 175. Miles

Provided by NASCAR Statistics - Sunday, 8/25/2024 @ 06:35 PM Eastern

Fin Str Trk Driver Team Laps Stage 1 Pos Stage 2 Pos Pts Status Tms Laps Playoff Pts
1 16 38 Layne Riggs # Zorn Compressor & Equipment Ford 175 6 3 53 Running 1 53 5
2 1 98 Ty Majeski (P) Road Ranger/Soda Sense Ford 175 4 2 51 Running 2 45
3 3 19 Christian Eckes (P) NAPA Auto Care Chevrolet 175 3 1 52 Running 2 71 1
4 5 2 Nick Sanchez (P) Gainbridge Chevrolet 175 5 4 46 Running  
5 11 17 Taylor Gray (P) JBL Toyota 175 9 5 40 Running  
6 9 18 Tyler Ankrum (P) LiUNA! Chevrolet 175 10 7 36 Running  
7 4 11 Corey Heim (P) Safelite Toyota 175   30 Running  
8 10 43 Daniel Dye (P) Champion Container Chevrolet 175 7 6 38 Running  
9 18 99 Ben Rhodes (P) Bommarito Automotive Group Ford 175   28 Running  
10 14 88 Matt Crafton Ideal Door/Menards Ford 175  8 30 Running  
11 2 15 Tanner Gray Dead On Tools Toyota 175 8  29 Running  
12 7 45 Kaden Honeycutt (P) Moore's Venture Foods Chevrolet 175  9 27 Running  
13 12 9 Grant Enfinger (P) Champion Power Equipment Chevrolet 175  10 25 Running  
14 6 1 William Sawalich Starkey/Soundgear Toyota 175   23 Running  
15 25 91 Jack Wood High Fives Foundation/GoPro Chevrolet 175   22 Running  
16 15 25 Ty Dillon Rackley Roofing Chevrolet 175 1  31 Running 1 6 1
17 19 7 Sammy Smith(i) (P) Golden Harvest Chevrolet 175   0 Running  
18 8 71 Rajah Caruth (P) HendrickCars.com Chevrolet 175   19 Running  
19 22 5 Dean Thompson Thompson Pipe Group Toyota 175   18 Running  
20 23 52 Stewart Friesen Halmar International Toyota 175   17 Running  
21 20 13 Jake Garcia Quanta Services Ford 174 2  25 Running  
22 26 66 Conner Jones # TSPORT Ford 174   15 Running  
23 21 77 Chase Purdy Bama Buggies Chevrolet 173   14 Running  
24 17 42 Matt Mills Utilitra/J.F. Electric Chevrolet 173   13 Running  
25 27 56 Timmy Hill Consolidation Coach Toyota 173   12 Running  
26 28 32 Bret Holmes Best Value Carriers Chevrolet 173   11 Running  
27 29 22 Mason Maggio Flitz Polish Ford 173   10 Running  
28 34 76 Spencer Boyd CampCowboy.org Chevrolet 172   9 Running  
29 13 41 Bayley Currey AutoVentive/Precision Chevrolet 172   8 Running  
30 32 02 Dexter Bean(i) Badger Environmental Chevrolet 172   7 Running  
31 24 04 Marco Andretti Group 1001/CarQuest Chevrolet 170   6 Running  
32 33 46 Thad Moffitt # Petty's Garage Chevrolet 169   5 Running  
33 31 44 Matthew Gould Niece Chevrolet 169   4 Running  
34 35 90 Justin Carroll Carroll's Automotive/Duratain Toyota 167   3 Running  
35 30 33 Lawless Alan AUTOChargit Ford 162   2 Suspension  
36 36 21 Jayson Alexander  Ford 45   1 Accident  

Time of Race: 1 Hrs, 49 Mins, 16 Secs. Average Speed: 97.537 MPH Margin of Victory: 1.547 Seconds

Stage 1 Top 10: 25, 13, 19, 98, 2, 38, 43, 15, 17, 18
Stage 2 Top 10: 19, 98, 38, 2, 17, 43, 18, 88, 45, 9

Failed to Qualify: (1) 6 Norm Benning.

Caution Flags: 2 for 22 laps; Laps: 49-62 (#21 Incident Turn 3 / Stage 1 Conclusion [32]); 112-119 (Stage 2 Conclusion [52]).

Lead Changes: 5 among 4 drivers; T. Majeski (P) 1-42; C. Eckes (P) 43-51; T. Dillon 52-57; C. Eckes (P) 58-119; T. Majeski (P) 120-122; L. Riggs # 123-175.

(i) Ineligible for driver points in this series

Next Race: September 19, 2024 - Bristol Motor Speedway

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