The Craftsman Truck Series championship battle comes down to two drivers and one race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Only 20 points separate Tricon Garage's Kaden Honeycutt and Front Row Motorsports' Layne Riggs.
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"It is going to be winner-take-all like usual," Riggs said on pit road after the race. "Just with two trucks this time. That's assuming we match his stage points, or I don't lose a lot of stage points versus him.
"But obviously, (Honeycutt) showed his weakness today, and we showed our strengths. I'm excited. This is what I live for, this is what I dreamed of, this is what I put all this hard work and effort for. Everybody on my team does."
The Chase has featured the two drivers stacking up the wins and the points while dominating. Honeycutt won at Kansas Speedway and Phoenix Raceway while Riggs won at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The other three races featured drivers not in contention for the title celebrating. Jake Garcia won the opener at Bristol Motor Speedway, Sammy Smith won at Talladega Superspeedway, and Chandler Smith won Friday's race at Martinsville Speedway after being eliminated from championship contention.
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Riggs actually dominated Friday's race at the Virginia short track. He led a race-high 156 laps, scored two stage wins, and posted the Xfinity Fastest Lap. He then finished third and ended the night with 55 points.
The Front Row Motorsports driver could have cut Honeycutt's lead to fewer than 10 points, but he lost the lead to Smith, his teammate, on the final restart of the race.
Once Riggs fell out of the lead, he ran out of time to chase down Smith and Ben Rhodes in second place. He only had 11 laps at the shortest track in the sport, so he had to settle for a top-three finish.
Honeycutt, who had a 43-point lead over Riggs before the race, scored nine stage points. He moved into the top-five in the closing laps, but he ended the race in 14th place after 16-year-old driver Tristan McKee sent him up the track on a restart.
Honeycutt spoke to McKee after the race and said that the young driver had just been trying to give Ty Majeski room on the bottom of the track.
"Just one of those Martinsville deals," Honeycutt said. "I mean, hell, we're short track racing on a paperclip. Things happen, and thankfully, we got some help there at the end."
