​NORTH WILKESBORO, NC — No driver in NASCAR’s Craftsman Truck Series is having as good of a year as Layne Riggs.The 24-year-old leads the circuit in wins this season with four, taking checkered flags at St. Petersburg, Charlotte, Nashville and Naval Base Coronado. Riggs also leads the series in points this season, has the most stage wins of any driver and has captured a pair of poles, most recently at the historic North Wilkesboro Speedway.”It’s a great feeling to show up in the racetrack with your hauler first and knowing that you’re the one with the target on your back that everybody knows that they have to beat every weekend,” Riggs said this weekend.Riggs finished second at North Wilkesboro in the FaithFest 250 on Saturday, and often battled for the lead with teammate and eventual winner Chandler Smith. It marked the eighth time in 15 races that he’s finished inside the top-six this season.His success this year has folks wondering: Is Riggs ready to make the leap up to NASCAR’s top-level Cup Series?Riggs was coy about his plans for 2027 when asked by SiriusXM recently, saying, “I’m working hard every day to try to make sure that happens, but no new news yet.”As NASCAR’s silly season ramps up, a lot of eyes are on Riggs with questions swirling about whether or not he’ll fill one of the open seats in the Cup Series. Meanwhile, winning a championship in the Truck Series is a real possibility for him, leaving Riggs to balance both short-term goals and long-term aspirations.”Well, all I can do is impress the right people,” Riggs said. “From everybody I talk to, all I can do is just keep doing what I’m doing – getting poles and winning races and trying to impress. That’s all I got to worry about in a nutshell. Hopefully the right opportunity will come to me.”A native of Bahama, North Carolina – just north of the state’s Research Triangle – Riggs grew up closer to college basketball rivalries along Tobacco Road than he did in stockcar racing’s capital of Charlotte. But his father Scott was a NASCAR driver, winning nine races across the Truck Series and second-tier O’Reilly Auto Parts Series in a 15-year career. And so, the son pursued the father’s footsteps.Riggs cut his teeth in racing by competing in late model stockcars, finding early success in the zMAX CARS Tour, a series that is co-owned by former Cup Series drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton. Trackhouse Racing’s Justin Marks is also a co-owner, as is Speedway Motorsports CEO Marcus Smith.Beginning at the age of 14, Riggs raced in the CARS Tour for several years, winning six races and finishing in the top five of the season point standings twice. Other alums of the series who have gone on to success in NASCAR include Zane Smith and Corey Heim.”It’s probably more competitive than ARCA, at the moment,” Riggs said. “I think that running in the CARS Tour, being a threat for a champion there, is an easy pipeline straight to the Truck Series like I d