Race Lineup : Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park

• Friday, July 25th, 2025
• NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer

Majeski Returns to the "Scene of the Climb" as Playoff Pressure Mounts

After three weeks off, the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series returns to action in Friday night’s TSport 200 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (8 p.m. ET on FS1, NRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

That’s good news for reigning series champion Ty Majeski, whose victory at the 0.686-mile short track last year proved to be a springboard to the series championship.

Majeski added a win at Richmond and a runner-up finish from the pole at the Milwaukee Mile in his next two starts. After qualifying for the Championship 4, he won from the pole at Phoenix Raceway to secure the title.

Majeski was fourth in the Truck Series standings when he came to Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park last year. This season, his position is considerably more tenuous. With three races left in the regular season, the driver of the No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford is 10th on the potential Playoff grid, just 38 points above the current elimination line.

Accordingly, the TSport 200 couldn’t come at a better time for the 30-year-old short-track ace from Seymour, Wisconsin, who won the prestigious Slinger Nationals super late model race in his native state on July 8 during the down time for the Truck Series.

Watkins Glen International and Richmond Raceway follow Indianapolis, and that portion of the schedule bodes well for Majeski in a disappointing year for ThorSport. Majeski is the only one of the organization’s drivers currently above the elimination line.

Jake Garcia is 11th, 38 points behind his champion teammate. Two-time title winner Ben Rhodes is 13th on the current Playoff grid, 68 points out, and three-time champion Matt Crafton is 153 points down in 16th, needing a win in the next three races to advance to the 10-driver Playoffs.

• Friday, July 25th, 2025
• NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer

Riggs Rules the Raceway: Burnout Bash Follows Dominant Truck Series Win at Indy

The post-race celebration said it all.

Layne Riggs planted the nose of his No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford firmly against the outside of the pit row wall and lit up his tires as members of his team stood on the barrier and pumped their fists repeatedly.

The elation was well-deserved after Riggs scored his first NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series victory at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in Friday night’s TSport 200.

With his second victory of the season and a sweep of the first two stages, Riggs cut into the dominating lead of Corey Heim with two races left in the regular season.

Nevertheless, Heim, who ran third in a balky No. 11 Toyota, clinched the regular-season title.

“I’ll tell you, this truck was bad-ass, man,” Riggs said after climbing from the F-150 on pit road. “It was so great. I was just out front saving my tires at the end. Then I was just waiting for a late-race caution (which never came), trying to run the bottom and trying to keep the least amount of distance to keep the distance off my tires.

“It’s so great to get (sponsor) Clew Nicotine Pouches in Victory Lane. That’s only their second race with us, and we’re super excited to have them. That was a pretty cool celebration.”

Riggs led 160 of the 200 laps at the 0.686-mile short track and beat Corey Day to the finish line by 1.864 seconds. The runner-up result was a career-best for Day, who had run fifth at Nashville Superspeedway in his most recent Truck Series outing.

“It was good to back up Nashville,” said Day, 19, who is running part-time schedules with Spire Motorsports in the Truck Series and Hendrick Motorsports in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. “I was telling everyone it clicked, and it felt like it clicked, but unless I come here and back it up, it means nothing.

“I’m really glad to finally be delivering results. I’ve been working really, really hard at this to be delivering results, and I really want to be doing the burnout up there.”

Stewart Friesen parlayed an early pit stop in the second stage into an ostensible third-place finish but was disqualified after failing height requirements in post-race inspection. The disqualification ruined an astute strategic call by the No.52 team.

Grant Enfinger ran fourth. Reigning series champion Ty Majeski, currently the last driver above the elimination line for the 10-driver Playoffs, came home fifth after Friesen’s disqualification and extended his advantage over ThorSport racing teammate Jake Garcia (15th Friday) from 38 to 61 points.

Chandler Smith, Daniel Hemric, Tyler Ankrum, Ross Chastain and Rajah Caruth completed the top 10.

Though he scored no Playoff points on Friday, Heim, who set the fastest lap on his second circuit, already has banked 39 this season. With the seven he added in the TSport 200, Riggs now has 16, second most among Truck Series drivers, with the Playoffs set to begin Aug. 30 at Darlington Raceway after the two final regular-season events at Watkins Glen International (Aug. 8) and Richmond Raceway (Aug.15).

• Drivers Entered: 35
• Laps Scheduled: 200
• Margin of Victory: 01.864 Seconds
• Time of Race: 1 Hours 40 Minutes 14 Seconds
• Average Speed: 82.128
• Cautions: 3 for 24 laps
• Lead Changes: 3
• Green Flag Passes: 1,080 (6.1 passes per green flag lap)

• Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park
• TSport 200 At IRP
• Race Winner: Layne Riggs
• Age: 23
• Team : No 34 - Clew Ford
• Owner: Bob Jenkins
• Crew Chief: Dylan Cappello
• Layne Riggs won the TSport 200 At IRP, his fourth victory in 45 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races
• This is his second victory and ninth top-10 finish in 2025
• This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in four races at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park
• Corey Day (second) posted his first top-10 finish in one race at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park It is his second top-10 finish in 2025
• Stewart Friesen (third) posted his second top-10 finish in four races at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park
• Connor Mosack (18th) was the highest finishing rookie
• Corey Heim leads the point standings by 143 points over Chandler Smith