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Nascar’s Craftsman truck series at North Wilkesboro Speedway ended in controversy on Saturday when Corey Heim came out while Layne Riggs ran on the last lap.
Heim and Riggs ran hard in extra time. Heim led Riggs in his bumper while taking the white flag. Heim claimed the upper line when Riggs left. Heim slipped along the track and Riggs was right at his door while they went down the setback.
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Nascar Corey Heim Craftsman truck driver during the rating for Florida 250’s newcomers at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, February 14, 2025. (Nigel Cook / News-Journal / USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
When the turn 2 came, Heim left. Chandler Smith was able to maneuver around Riggs and took home the victory. Riggs ended second.
Heim delivered a message to Riggs after the race.
“Calm down or otherwise I’m going to take care of you,” he said.
It is not necessary to say that Heim was upset with the way Riggs ran it and confronted him once and once they returned to Pit Road. Heim described Riggs’s decision on the last round “Scum Racing”.
“Why? More than anything. He tried to do it at 7 (Carson Hocevar) last week for victory, and the mission fulfilled for him,” said Heim, through Nascar.com. “I suppose, this week, and it also cost him one. I don’t know. We have renounced many of them this year after dominating the race. 38 (Smith) was the only other type that was legitimately good.
Driver of the Nascar Layne Riggs truck series, #34, during the qualification for Florida 250’s newcomers in Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, on February 14, 2025. (Peter Casey-Imagn images)
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“I felt that I deserved to win any other person, not at 34 (Riggs). I really released in (turn) 3. I simply struggled to be loose in the short races, and had a chance, and he destroyed me. Simply disappointed.”
Riggs defended his “strong movement.”
“If I have the reputation of going for the victories, I will not regret that at all,” Riggs said. “You know, I feel that I come from short road races, battles of the last lap, and I feel that for that this type of racing is made. I feel it is not as if we had seen in Martinsville in the past and they angered me. I feel it was a strong movement, and I thought I was going to pay.
“But unfortunately, I didn’t get the victory.”
Heim finished the race in 17.
Heim still leads the classification of drivers with 450 points, 47 more than Smith. Riggs went up to the eighth in the classification.
