{"id":550535,"date":"2026-03-21T05:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550535\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:22:07","slug":"ford-racing-darlington-ncts-post-race-quotes-speedway-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550535\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Racing \u2013 Darlington NCTS Post-Race Quotes &#8211; Speedway Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORD UNOFFICIAL FINISHING RESULTS:<\/p>\n<p>12th \u2013 Layne Riggs<\/p>\n<p>17th \u2013 Chandler Smith<\/p>\n<p>18th \u2013 Frankie Muniz<\/p>\n<p>23rd \u2013 Jake Garcia<\/p>\n<p>28th \u2013 Cole Butcher<\/p>\n<p>29th \u2013 Clayton Green<\/p>\n<p>31st \u2013 Ty Majeski<\/p>\n<p>35th \u2013 Josh Reaume<\/p>\n<p>36th \u2013 Ben Rhodes<\/p>\n<p>LAYNE RIGGS, No. 34 BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing Ford F-150 \u2013 \u201cI really hate that me and my Ford Racing teammate, Ty (Majeski), were kind of at it all night.\u00a0It was nothing malicious from either of us, just hard racing both times.\u00a0The first time, I feel like he didn\u2019t really know I was out there and got into me and put me in the wall.\u00a0That put us behind, but we came back to the front.\u00a0I haven\u2019t seen a replay, so I don\u2019t exactly know what happened the second time, but I thought there was plenty of room out there.\u00a0I wasn\u2019t trying to stuff him into the fence or anything.\u00a0That pretty much ruined both of our nights, so I\u2019m disappointed all of that transpired.\u00a0I definitely don\u2019t want to take two Fords out together, so we\u2019ll just have to watch the replay and dissect it and see what happened.\u00a0Overall, to come back P12 after what happened and to have a truck that had the toe knocked out two inches it felt like.\u00a0I was having to go hand-over-hand in the corner to get it to turn, so to come back from that and finish as well as we did at the very end, I\u2019m very content with that.\u00a0Everybody at Front Row Motorsports did a really good job of keeping their heads down and staying focused all the way to the end even when it looked like the odds were stacked against us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CHANDLER SMITH, No. 38 QuickTie Ford F-150 \u2013 \u201cWe call those a blue-collar day around here.\u00a0Our No. 38 QuickTie Products Ford F-150 was not good, to say the least, all day.\u00a0We just struggled with handling all day and on top of that with handling, obviously, our pace wasn\u2019t great, so by the very end of the race got it better than it was for the first half to three-quarters of the race, but then we just got super, super free like a light switch after six laps.\u00a0I\u2019m proud of the effort of everybody on this Front Row Motorsports group.\u00a0They didn\u2019t give up today.\u00a0We definitely have a lot of work to do.\u00a0We came back with something similar to what we ran back in the fall last year and was really good then.\u00a0We were solid today in practice.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t amazing, but we just missed it completely in the race.\u00a0We\u2019ll regroup and go to Rockingham and hopefully have a better piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JAKE GARCIA, No. 98 Quanta Services\/Curb Records Ford F-150 \u2013 \u201cI think off the truck we weren\u2019t very good today, but we made really good adjustments and did a good job working as a team to figure out what we needed to do to improve our Ford F-150.\u00a0There at the end of the race I thought we were really good, but I just ended up getting wrecked on the green-white-checker.\u00a0They stacked up in front of me.\u00a0Obviously, I slowed down what I could and then I just got run over from behind, so I hate it for our Quanta Service\/Curb Records team, but I think we showed we have a lot of speed and that we can run good.\u00a0I want to thank all of my guys for bringing me a fast truck and we\u2019ll move on to Rockingham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BEN RHODES, No. 99 Farm Paint Ford F-150 \u2013 \u201cIt was probably lap two.\u00a0I don\u2019t know.\u00a0It was way too early for how hard I was getting raced.\u00a0The 18 truck, Tyler Ankrum, I don\u2019t know if he tried to clear himself or the truck got away from him, but I was on his outside \u2013 my nose was \u2013 and when he came up to I guess try to take the position, his right side hit our left-front fender.\u00a0That knocked the fender in, so as soon as I turned the wheel going into turn one, it cut the tire down.\u00a0It was way too early for something like that to happen.\u00a0It\u2019s unfortunate.\u00a0It\u2019s a habit that a lot of these guys do, trying to race really hard and force people to lift to take positions away from one another and that\u2019s just not good \u2013 at least the things like this happening.\u00a0It\u2019s unfortunate.\u00a0I don\u2019t know what else to say about it for our guys.\u00a0We hate it.\u00a0We came in here second in points and said we just wanted to manage this race as our goal and just not lose anything, and now we\u2019re gonna lose everything we\u2019ve worked for the last two or three races.\u00a0Not good, but we\u2019ll rebound.\u00a0It\u2019s on to the next race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ford Racing PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORD UNOFFICIAL FINISHING RESULTS: 12th \u2013 Layne Riggs 17th \u2013 Chandler Smith 18th \u2013 Frankie Muniz 23rd 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