Honeycutt-Riggs Truck Title Fight Heads to Martinsville With Two Races Left

The NASCAR Truck Series championship will take a decisive turn at Martinsville this weekend. The title fight heads to the famous short track on Friday night with two races left in the season, and the contenders know that 500 laps of beating and banging could rewrite the standings. Kaden Honeycutt carries the lead into the weekend, with Layne Riggs — the defending pole winner at Martinsville — among those hunting him down. Riggs was a factor here before, leading 27 laps and finishing third in the fall race last year, and he will expect to be in the mix again on a track that rewards patience and punishes mistakes. Behind them, Christian Eckes remains mathematically alive despite trailing Honeycutt by 144 points, while the rest of the Chase field fights for the final scraps of a season that has come down to the wire. Practice runs Friday afternoon before qualifying, and then the trucks go racing under the lights. Martinsville has a habit of settling arguments the hard way. With a championship on the line and only two races left, nobody in the field can afford a quiet night.