{"id":507179,"date":"2026-03-01T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:32:53","slug":"layne-riggs-wins-onlybulls-green-flag-150-at-st-petersburg-in-nascar-craftsman-truck-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507179\/","title":{"rendered":"Layne Riggs wins OnlyBulls Green Flag 150 at St. Petersburg in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Layne Riggs<\/a> broke through in a big way. The Front Row Motorsports driver captured the victory in Saturday\u2019s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at St. Petersburg, winning the\u00a0OnlyBulls Green Flag 150\u00a0and securing his first triumph of the 2026 season after a slow start to the year.<\/p>\n

Riggs held off former champions Ty Majeski and Ben Rhodes over the closing laps to take the checkered flag on the tight Florida street circuit, earning the sixth Truck Series win of his career. After finishing 31st at Daytona and 27th at Atlanta to open the season, Riggs entered the weekend needing a bounce-back performance, and he delivered in dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n

The victory was especially meaningful given the setting. Known primarily as a short-track racer, Riggs said the win validated the work he has put in to become more well-rounded behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst thing I\u2019m going to say, thank you to Joey Hand. I know he\u2019s watching at home. My road course guy. He\u2019s the man,\u201d Riggs said after the race. \u201cHe helped me so much. We\u2019ve been working on this race track in the simulator at Ford Racing since December. I really, really wanted to get my first win on a road course.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe short-track guy from Bahama, North Carolina, won at St. Pete. Can you believe it? I\u2019ve really been trying to perfect my craft. I said this year I just want to win a road course to show I\u2019m not just that short-track guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, Riggs\u2019 performance wasn\u2019t just fast, but strategic. Late in the race, fuel became a major concern, forcing him to manage both his pace and his lines through the corners as the laps wound down.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sputtered with about eight to go,\u201d Riggs explained. \u201cThe pickup on these trucks is on the left side, so every time I turned left the fuel would slosh away. The whole time I was just trying to keep it running and manage the gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Behind him, Majeski and Rhodes closed in during the final laps, setting up a tense finish. Riggs acknowledged both drivers raced him clean despite having opportunities to make a more aggressive move for the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to Ben Rhodes and Ty Majeski. I know they ran me pretty clean,\u201d Riggs added. \u201cThat last corner, Ty probably could have cleaned me out if he wanted to. We were so close there, but what an awesome feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alas, the win gives Riggs early momentum in the Truck Series standings after the rough first two races, showing the No. 38 team remains a contender once again in 2026. If Saturday proved anything, it\u2019s that Riggs isn\u2019t just a short-track specialist anymore, and the rest of the Truck Series field just got a reminder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Layne Riggs broke through in a big way. The Front Row Motorsports driver captured the victory in Saturday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-507179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}