After making his début in 2022, Layne Riggs will run his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection race of 2023 on Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, driving the #1 Toyota Tundra TRD Professional for TRICON Storage.
The son of NASCAR veteran Scott Riggs, he’s a growth driver for Toyota who ran three races in a second truck for Halmar Friesen Racing at IRP, Richmond, and Phoenix in 2022. He impressed from the beginning by ending seventh in his maiden race; whereas his two different begins noticed finishes exterior the highest ten, he certified fourth and second for every.
He gained the NASCAR Advance Auto Components Weekly Collection nationwide championship in 2022 with sixteen whole victories at Dominion Raceway, Hickory Motor Speedway, South Boston Speedway, and Wake County Speedway. On the age of twenty, Riggs is the youngest driver to say the title, surpassing Peyton Sellers‘ report set in 2005 by one yr; by the way, Riggs beat Sellers, the reigning champion, by 4 factors for the championship.
TRICON Storage, of their first yr as Toyota’s flagship Truck group, fields the #1 for a number of drivers: Jason White completed fifteenth within the season opener at Daytona whereas Kaz Grala was seventeenth at Las Vegas, whereas Jesse Love and William Sawalich will get their photographs later within the season.. Dean Thompson (#5), Corey Heim (#11), Tanner Grey (#15), and Taylor Grey (#17) race full-time for the group, although Sammy Smith and John Hunter Nemechek piloted the #17 within the first two as Grey is just too younger for bigger tracks. Nemechek was initially scheduled to drive the #1 at Atlanta earlier than Riggs’ arrival.
