Riggs on dominant win: 'I was on cruise control'
After earning his fifth win of the season in dominant fashion, Layne Riggs shares what made him hard to beat as he went back-to-back at IRP.
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Well, for the second year in a row, Lane Riggs sweeps the stages and finds victory lane here at IRP.
Led all but two laps today.
What do performances like tonight say about you and this team?
I think they're just statement wins.
I mean, man, what a truck.
I mean, I was on cruise control there for so much of the race.
Seven, he kept me honest there at the end.
I was honestly, those last 15-ish laps in traffic, I was running as hard as I could and I couldn't get away from him.
I knew we had a pretty good gap, so, great job with my spotter, Josh.
He did a great job today navigating me through traffic.
Had that one mishap on the restart, just spun the tires really, really bad, and wh- when you get these tires spinning, they're so hard to recover.
So, just thank you to guys behind me for not turning me around.
I know that easily could've happened.
So, so I'm not sure where Chandler finished.
Had a good run for him as well.
So he got it, he got it last week.
We had to, we had to flip the script and do it again this week, but thank you to all of our partners.
BKB, Bare Knuckle Boxing, BKB 57 in London tomorrow night.
Everybody tune in on Vice TV.
It's gonna be a brawl, as you see on the quarter panel.
Ford Racing, all your help.
They give us the tools to go fast and, man, what a race truck.
These guys make my job easy, and I think we're just gonna keep carrying that momentum and statement win.
Think we're the ones to beat, for sure.
Never finished outside the top 10 here at IRP.
We heard the report that you wanted the same setup in the truck coming back this year.
What's it about this place that allows you to have success, and what makes this place so special?
I think just my short track experience racing the Cars Tour, having so much time with just learning how to finesse that right foot.
There's not a lot of tracks we go to that, even Martinsville now, you don't have to finesse your right foot, and just here it's really about tire management, keeping that right rear tire on it.
My crew chief, Dylan, my engineer, Jonathan Coats, they do a great job with the Ford Racing simulator, helping give me what I need every single week to go faster and faster.
And we pretty- It's the same truck.
It's, this is the same truck that's won both of our Bristol races and both of our IRP races.
So the win percentage I think is over 50% for it.
But, no, it's just awesome to be able to bring that back, bring the same setup back.
I said, "Man, let's just bring the same thing we had back.
If we get beat straight up, then we're just gonna have to go to work next year" But I didn't wanna mess ourselves up.
So man, what a truck though.
It's amazing.
