LAKEVILLE, Conn. — The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection heads to its ultimate highway course competitors of the season in Saturday’s Liuna 150 at Connecticut’s historic Lime Rock Park — the 1.478-mile, seven-turn course some of the well-known circuits in American racing.
Fittingly sufficient, championship chief Layne Riggs is coming off his fourth win of the season on the San Diego avenue course – a profession single-season excessive mark – as the motive force of the No. 34 Entrance Row Motorsports Ford hopes to proceed proving himself among the finest highway course racers within the collection.
He’s received on two – St. Petersburg and San Diego – of the three highway programs and joins a brief and spectacular checklist of earlier collection drivers to win a number of occasions in a single season on a highway course – NASCAR Corridor of Famer Ron Hornaday Jr., Joe Ruttman and reigning Truck Collection champ – and defending Lime Rock race winner Corey Heim.
The second-generation NASCAR star – son of former NASCAR Cup Collection driver Scott Riggs – took the championship lead from Kaden Honeycutt three races in the past and has prolonged it to 65 factors – the biggest benefit for anybody within the championship this season. His Entrance Row Motorsports teammate Chandler Smith – like Riggs and Honeycutt a gifted highway course racer – is third within the title chase, 128 factors off the lead.
These are the one three drivers to steer the championship this season. Riggs is at the moment on a series-best five-race streak of top-10 finishes – together with three wins (Charlotte, Nashville and San Diego) in that stretch.
ThorSport Racing’s Ty Majeski was the top-finisher amongst this yr’s championship contenders, ending runner-up to Heim in 2025. His teammate Ben Rhodes was fourth. Chandler Smith was sixth, Honeycutt twelfth and Riggs thirteenth.
There’s a powerful checklist of highway course “ringers” this week together with former collection common – and race winner – Colin Braun within the No. 25 RAM truck, IndyCar star Louis Foster and IMSA star Graham Doyle.
Of notice: McAnally-Hilgemann driver Daniel Hemric is the one driver to complete top-10 in all three highway course races this season. … 5 of the final seven highway course races resulted in extra time. … The driving force who has led essentially the most laps has received 9 of the final 11 highway course races. …and 5 drivers have earned their first profession collection win on a highway course – the final to take action was Honeycutt at Watkins Glen, N.Y. in Might.
