Scott Riggs’ career in the ranks of NASCAR spanned more than 15 years and nearly 400 starts across the main three competitive divisions, stretching from 1999 to 2014 and featuring four Xfinity Series victories and five triumphs in Camping World Truck Series events.
Racing was clearly in the family’s blood, though, and son Layne Riggs made his Truck debut at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in late July in Halmar Friesen Racing’s No. 62. The 20-year-old finished seventh there in the series’ playoff opener, backing it up two weeks later with a top 20 at Richmond. More recently, he won the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series’ late model track championship at South Boston Speedway in the first weekend of September and still leads the 2022 points standings in that division.
Frontstretch‘s Adam Cheek caught up with both father and son at Richmond, where Layne finished 19th in his second-ever start and dad was part of the crew, tinkering with the truck before and after the race.
The elder Riggs and wife Jai bought Layne “basketballs, golf clubs, all the miniature stuff,” but the budding driver didn’t go for them; rather, his first dirt bike sparked his interest in racing and the parents gave him a go-kart at 3 years old.
“The craziest thing about that,” Scott said, “I still got the video — when we first put him out there, he drives and he’s holding it wide open and he gets sideways. He just turns it and never lets off and straightens it out. We didn’t tell him that. We just told him, ‘you turn the steering wheel to go this way, you turn the steering wheel to go that way, that’s the gas, that’s the brake.’ That’s all we told him, and then he’s out there hanging it outside, standing in the gas, instinctive. That was the first time we looked at each other like, ‘holy shit, he just did that?’”
It wasn’t long before Layne was running against competition of his ilk.
“We took him to a little actual go-kart race, bought him a little kid kart to run,” Scott said. “So he goes out there, and at that time we’d already built him a go-kart track at the house. So we came to the racetrack, and the first race, he started dead last and won, drove all the way to the front and won. The second race he drove up […] and then something happened to the carburetor and he quit, so when it did that he said ‘this is no fun, spent all day here just to run for…
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