Layne Riggs 'Rains' in NASCAR Truck Pole at Nashville Superspeedway

LEBANON, Tenn. -- The same drivers who finished 1-2 last weekend in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series will start 1-2 again this weekend at Nashville Superspeedway.

Layne Riggs will lead Kaden Honeycutt to the green flag in the Allegiance 200 NCTS race scheduled for Friday night at 7 p.m. ET on FS1, NASCAR Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

Fresh off of leading 52 of 110 laps in the time-shortened race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Riggs benefitted from NASCAR shortening a session again Friday. Qualifying ran through over half of the field before rain came and wiped out the session, setting the starting lineup by the rulebook and putting Riggs on the pole.

In the 11th race of 2026, Riggs is looking for his third win of the season after waiting until race No. 14 to win for the first time in 2025.

Last season, Riggs led 30 of 150 laps and finished third to Rajah Caruth and Corey Heim, who led 58 laps in the No. 11 TRICON Toyota that Honeycutt will wheel Friday night from second-place.

Honeycutt has one win this season, earlier this month at Watkins Glen. He paid homage to Kyle Busch on social media, still processing Busch's death over a week later, much like the rest of the NASCAR industry:

"A boy who had no idea who he was meeting at 3 years old. One of , if not THE greatest of all time. Always wish I got to show him this and say there were 2 Snowball Derby winners in this pic. One of them is significantly better. Definitely was not me lol. Just so hard to not think about him at all. Still so hard to process," Honeycutt posted.

Jesse Love, Gio Ruggiero, Christian Eckes, Ben Rhodes, Brandon Jones, William Sawalich, Tanner Gray and Daniel Hemric round out the top-10 starters.

Eckes is the only other former Nashville winner in the field. He led every lap in 2024 to win.

Starting 18th, NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series driver Parker Retzlaff is turning heads with Legacy Motor Club backing him in a Halmar-Friesen Racing ride.

In 21st, Ross Chastain is the only NASCAR Cup Series driver in the field. Four positions behind him is Rajah Caruth, the defending NCTS winner at Nashville.

Daniel Dye snagged the 36th and final spot in the field. Toni Breidinger and Jonathan Shafer failed to qualify.

Mother Nature didn't just hand Layne Riggs the pole; he was probably going to earn it anyways if qualifying had gone through. 

Riggs was almost three tenths of a second faster than Jake Garcia, who starts 11th and was sixth on the 10-lap average.

Garcia's teammate, Ty Majeski, was fastest on the 10-lap average. He starts 27th.