Layne Riggs fires back at NASCAR penalty for reckless driving during Nashville Truck Series race
Layne Riggs decided to fire back at NASCAR for the penalty he received during the Truck Series’ Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville Superspeedway on Friday evening.
Riggs was battling with Stefan Parsons throughout the night, and the duo got into each other multiple times on the track. Multiple laps of battling with one another. So, Riggs gave him a bump and sent Parsons around. Then, NASCAR penalized him for two laps, believing he purposefully wrecked him.
Of course, it completely changed the complexion of Riggs’ night, and he referenced a double-standard while speaking with FOX’s Bob Pockrass following the race, giving multiple examples of Cup Series drivers who weren’t penalized for similar maneuvers.
“I’ve never seen that before,” Riggs said, regarding the penalty. “I watch the Cup Series every single weekend. I see people getting into it here and there, and you know, it wasn’t like I right hooked him into the wall. You know, I went down into the corner and gave him a bump back. You know, he ran us up the track three times. Under me, he said he was too free under me, so why’d you drive up into the corner under me if you’re too free? You just killed our whole left side. Killed the handling of it. It wasn’t the same the rest of the race.
“So, I don’t agree with the decision at all, especially when you have the people that you look up to racing on Sundays do the same kind of stuff on Sunday afternoons.”
Moving forward, how will Riggs handle his business on the track now? He’s simply not going to touch anyone, as he believes NASCAR’s decision was so far from the right one, it’s going to deter him from seeking revenge ever again.
“I guess just don’t touch anybody now,” Riggs stated. “It’s hard, when you see everybody around you do it, you know, and I just wanted to go ahead and finish what was started on the race track. Leave it at that. You know, move on about our day. I didn’t think it was worth the penalty at all.
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“But yeah, definitely want to talk to Seth and everybody at NASCAR, just to figure out, I mean, what am I doing wrong? I’ve been told, obviously, right rear hooking is off limits. We’ve seen Chase Elliott get suspended for it. We’ve seen, you know, Bubba [Wallace] get suspended for it. We’ve seen a lot of that on Sundays. I get that, but it was nowhere near that.”
More on Stefan Parsons, Layne Riggs
As you can tell, the Rackley Roofing 200 brought out the emotions in Layne Riggs and Stefan Parsons. It’s safe to say, they do not agree with each other. These two NASCAR drivers had an argument on pit road, but didn’t leave seeing eye-to-eye.
Parsons felt like he had to go speak to Riggs after the race, and it didn’t exactly look like it ended up solving their issues with one another. Check out the video below from Devin Kupka.
Alas, it’s all very interesting to see how Parsons approached the situation. He apparently didn’t mean to make contact with Riggs all those times, but he was fighting an ill-handling truck. Riggs doesn’t seem to buy it all that much.
In the end, both of these wheelmen are looking to run well each week. They are young and looking for more opportunities, Parsons in particular. This incident between the two is probably two drivers getting into it a bit too much. Not sure we need to see or will see more from this rivalry.
On3’s Jonathan Howard contributed to this article.