Layne Riggs wins the Allegiance 200 at Nashville Superspeedway – Trackhouse Racing Photo
Lebanon, Tenn. – Ford Racing earned the victory and third place at the
rain delayed Allegiance 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race from
Nashville Superspeedway. Polesitter Layne Riggs swept all three stages
on the 1.33-mile concrete oval outside of Nashville to score his third –
second consecutive – win of the 2026 season. Despite leading every lap
of the first two stages, the No. 34 Love’s Travel Stops/Fleetguard
Ford F-150 fell deep in the pack in the third and final stage. Riggs
worked his yellow Ford F-150 back through the field to take the lead on
the final lap. He would lead a total 99 of 150 laps on his way to
victory lane. Riggs’s Front Row Motorsports teammate Chandler Smith
challenged at the front of the field most of the night and for the lead
late in the race before taking the checkered flag in third-place.
Ford Racing now has four race wins in the 2026 season and 133 all-time
NCTS races. The victory is the 19th Truck Series win for Front Row
Motorsports.
LAYNE RIGGS, No. 34 Love’s Travel Stops/Fleetguard Ford F-150 – “I
don’t know what was wrong with those tires we put on to start the final
stage. I was like, maybe I’m just this loose in dirty air, and I haven’t
been as far back all day. I swore they’d put the left rear on the right
rear and the right rear on the left rear. It was just absolutely
undrivable. So, held on to it, and didn’t wreck it. It was that bad.
Thankfully, the caution came out just at the right time, of course. Had
nothing to lose, so we just came down pit road and put four [tires] on
and I got my race car back. I’m glad we were able to come back. I just
blacked out for those last 10 or 15 laps to just get to the front. Those
guys gave me such a good truck in the first two stages. They gave me a
shot at the very end to win it back, to claw back the front. And I knew
I couldn’t leave here without that guitar. Thank you to everybody. It
was really fun racing the [No.] 7 there. We were three wide across the
line through the white flag. I wish that Chandler could have gotten to
second instead of third, but still a great performance for both Ford
F-150 trucks from Front Row. Probably the best race truck I’ve ever had
before. I knew it in practice. It was just so dominant. It did
everything I wanted to do, just so secure and had so much grip. We
really went to work in the Ford Racing simulator to be better for this
racetrack. We were already pretty good here, and we just fine tuned it
that much better. So, yeah, just so happy to get me a guitar, number
four for the Riggs family. Going to put it next to Dad’s.”
CHANDLER SMITH, No. 38 Matheus Lumber Ford F-150 – “It was tight,
you know, from stage two on, just a little snug. Then we got on the
other side of that and my truck really got good on long runs especially.
So all those short runs, kind of clustered together, didn’t feed into
our strong suit, but nevertheless, our No. 38 Matheus Lumber Ford F-150
was solid today. I was able to get stage points all day. To have the No.
34 get the win and we came in third… I know Bob Jenkins is here. I’m
sure he’s happy. I look forward to going up to Michigan.”