DAYTONA Seaside, Fla. (September 22, 2022) – In a battle that arrived down to the remaining weekend of levels of competition, 20-year-outdated Layne Riggs conquer out defending titlist Peyton Sellers to grow to be the youngest NASCAR Advance Car Parts Weekly Series winner in collection record.
Soon after this earlier weekend’s races at Motor Mile Speedway (Fairlawn, Virginia) and Dominion Raceway (Woodford, Virginia), Riggs came out on top rated more than Sellers by four points to win the nationwide championship.
Sellers was beforehand the youngest Weekly Collection champion, winning in 2005 at 21-many years-aged.
“Congratulations to Layne on turning into the youngest Progress Auto Sections Weekly Series countrywide winner,” said Ben Kennedy, NASCAR Senior Vice President, Racing Enhancement and Strategy. “Layne really exemplified what grassroots racing signifies in NASCAR by getting advantage of his chances to race and develop in the sport this time.”
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Riggs didn’t start out the 2022 time with the intention of racing for a weekly series national championship, but when the staff opened the period with a string of wins at South Boston Speedway, the approach changed. Encouragement from their fellow competition led the tiny, family-owned team run by his father Scott – and previous NASCAR Cup Series driver – to reconsider their focus and purpose to the championship.
“If you had asked me eight, nine months in the past what I was likely to do, it wasn’t likely to be going after a national championship,” stated Layne. “I’m just very pleased of my crew and almost everything we have finished to be able to get this gain. We’ve worked tough. We actually, definitely desired it.”
Scott included, “We just understood that going for a thing like a championship with NASCAR would be one thing that would mean so significantly for Layne’s future.”
In in between race weekends, Riggs is a third-year college student at the College of North Carolina at Charlotte, researching mechanical engineering. Additionally, he ran a pair of NASCAR Tenting Entire world Truck Series races, recording a seventh-put end result at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in his NASCAR nationwide collection debut.
“It’s been tough attempting to operate all these races and aim on schoolwork at the similar time, but I’ve managed, it is been a tricky road,” added Layne.
“We congratulate Layne on building heritage as the youngest winner of the NASCAR Advance Auto Sections Weekly Sequence,” said Jason McDonell, Advance’s govt vice president of merchandising, marketing and e-commerce. “The dedication shown by Layne and his racing group this time genuinely embodies the enthusiasm that exists in the sport of limited keep track of racing. We are enthusiastic to crown Layne as our winner, and we search ahead to following his racing occupation for a long time to arrive.”
