NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — Layne Riggs received the pole for Saturday’s FaithFest 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence race throughout qualifying Friday afternoon at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Driving the No. 34 Entrance Row Motorsports Ford, Riggs turned a lap of 18.502 seconds at 121.608 mph on the five-eighths-mile race observe.
It was the second pole of the season for Riggs and the sixth of his profession, which has spanned 69 races.
“Monitor place right here is essential. We didn’t have any final 12 months,” Riggs stated. “That is the primary time we’ve certified on the brand new floor right here, so it was sort of throwing the cube for everyone. No person actually knew precisely what we would have liked. Lots of people did mock qualifying runs in follow and mine didn’t go nice in any respect. I used to be 10 out of 10 tight and wouldn’t even try to show, so it was exhausting to inform my crew chief how a lot I wanted to free it up as a result of it was so tight you couldn’t even actually put a quantity on it.
“I used to be nonetheless throughout my lap pondering, ‘We’re nonetheless method too tight.’ I nonetheless thought I used to be a 4 out of 10 tight with the place I wanted to be and snapping free off, so I assumed we had been gonna be an eighth to tenth place qualifying run. Supposedly, I bought very fortunate with a cloud, the timing of all of it.”
Carson Hocevar will begin second in a Spire Motorsports Chevrolet. He was .016 seconds slower than Riggs. Christopher Bell will roll from third in a Workforce Halmar Toyota.
Corey Heim and Giovanni Ruggiero accomplished the highest 5 in Toyotas.
Chase Elliott will begin sixth in a second Spire Motorsports truck, with Kaden Honeycutt going seventh in one other Toyota.
