Layne Riggs disqualified from Kansas Truck race, dropping runner-up end

Layne Riggs completed second in Saturday’s thrilling NASCAR Truck Sequence race at Kansas Speedway, matching his greatest results of the yr after a powerful cost by way of the sector. He made contact with Carson Hocevar on the ultimate as they battled it out for the win, however Hocevar managed to hold on and declare victory, simply forward of Riggs.

Nevertheless, whereas Hocevar’s truck cleared post-race checks, Riggs’ machine didn’t. The No. 34 Entrance Row Motorsports truck later failed post-race inspection, costing Riggs his runner-up end and many of the 49 factors he scored throughout the occasion as he was disqualified. Riggs will now be scored in thirty first (final), accumulating simply six factors. Riggs was set to go away Kansas sixth within the championship, however the DQ will drop him all the way down to ninth within the common season standings.

What was mistaken with the #34?

Explaining the infraction, NASCAR officers launched the next assertion: “The No. 34 has been disqualified for violating rule 14.4.9.A.3 (Mattress cowl materials have to be robust sufficient to forestall the quilt from deflecting or sagging and have to be sealed across the perimeter of all mattress panels whereas the car is in competitors).”

NASCAR has seen a number of notable points in post-race inspection this yr throughout all three collection. Parker Kligerman was disqualified after successful the Truck Sequence season-opener at Daytona, later failing to get it overturned on attraction (trip top). It was the identical story for Jesse Love, who failed post-race inspection after successful the NASCAR Xfinity race at Rockingham (rear suspension).

And within the Talladega Cup race, each second-place finisher Ryan Preece and fifth-place finisher Joey Logano later failed inspection (spoiler). Erik Jones additionally failed inspection after a Twenty fourth-place end at Martinsville (weight).