Grant Enfinger Wins Chaotic Truck Series Race at Lime Rock
The Happy Hour Racing NASCAR recap is back with a road course curveball: the Craftsman Truck Series raced Lime Rock Park for the first time, and it did not disappoint.
The Short Version
Grant Enfinger won the LiUNA 150, the Craftsman Truck Series' first-ever trip to Lime Rock Park, on Saturday. He snapped a 40-race winless streak that stretched back to Homestead in October 2024, holding off Landen Lewis by 0.483 seconds after a green flag with three laps to go. The race featured six cautions for 40 laps, an 18-minute red flag, and a Turn 1 pileup that wrecked the points leader's day. Enfinger's 13th career win also moved him to ninth in the standings, inside the cutline for the championship round.
The Turn 1 Pileup That Ended Layne Riggs' Day
Layne Riggs came into Lime Rock as the points leader and looked like the truck to beat. He won the pole, took Stage 1, and led 48 laps through the middle of the race in the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford. Then the race's final restart, on lap 75, blew the whole thing up.
Gio Ruggiero and Cole Butcher made contact exiting Turn 1, sending leader Stewart Friesen spinning and collecting a chunk of the front of the field. Riggs, running right behind Kaden Honeycutt on the restart, took a hit from behind that jammed him into the back of Honeycutt's No. 11 Toyota. Both trucks went around in the Turn 1 grass. Honeycutt's damage was minor enough to keep racing. Riggs was not so lucky, and his beat-up Ford limped home 23rd, one lap down, snapping a five-race streak of top fives.
Neither driver placed blame afterward. "I know Layne wouldn't do something like that on purpose, so I'm sure he got hit from the back," Honeycutt said. Riggs told NASCAR.com he saw it the same way: "I was in line on the bottom behind the 11 ... next thing I know, I was jacked up." The two shook hands behind the Front Row hauler once things cooled off.
A wild afternoon at a new track. That is a fair way to put it.
A scary moment for yesterday's ARCA winner. A big fire at Lime Rock for Thomas Annunziata. pic.twitter.com/D4iD9hpXMA
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) July 11, 2026
That was not the only scary moment. Thomas Annunziata's truck caught fire while running inside the top five, forcing him out of the race early. Ty Majeski lost his brakes and Chandler Smith and Ben Rhodes both ended their days early too. Twenty-two of the 33 starters finished on the lead lap. Eleven did not.
Enfinger Closes It Out
Enfinger started 12th and stayed patient all day, never leading much until it mattered. A caution with 14 laps left set up a three-lap shootout. Enfinger lined up alongside Gio Ruggiero for the restart, got the better launch, and cleared the field. Landen Lewis, chasing his first career Truck win in the Niece Motorsports No. 45, closed hard on the final lap but ran out of racetrack. Enfinger crossed the line 0.483 seconds ahead.
What a battle! Grant Enfinger holds off Landen Lewis to WIN at Lime Rock Park. pic.twitter.com/bvY5e2R3CZ
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) July 11, 2026
Enfinger, who has been with CR7 Motorsports since 2024, said he was not interested in wrecking his way to the win. "I didn't want to go in there and purposely root him out of that way to win. We beat them on the launch, and I think we had a better truck," he said afterward. It is his first win on a road course and 13th of his Truck Series career.
Stage Strategy: Three Different Winners
Lime Rock split its storylines cleanly by stage. Riggs took Stage 1 running away, banking stage points before his truck ever got touched. Honeycutt answered by winning Stage 2, holding off Riggs again in a preview of the contact that would eventually collect them both. Enfinger did not win a stage all day. He simply survived the two the other two won and then took the one that counted.
That is the whole story of a new road course for this series. Cautions bunched the field over and over, so track position off pit road and clean restarts mattered more than long-run speed. Trucks that could stay out of trouble in traffic had a real shot, and trucks that pushed too hard on restarts paid for it, Riggs included.
By the Numbers
Who's Hot, Who's Not
Hot: Grant Enfinger snapped a 40-race drought and jumped into the top 10 in points with four regular-season races left. Kaden Honeycutt salvaged a Stage 2 win and a third-place finish out of a day that could have gone much worse. Landen Lewis is still looking for his first win, but a runner-up finish after leading laps against a field this beat-up is nothing to be down about.
Not: Layne Riggs came in as the points leader and the class of the field for three-quarters of the race, then left 23rd after a restart he did not start. Thomas Annunziata, Ty Majeski, Chandler Smith, and Ben Rhodes all had their days ended early by fire or mechanical trouble. Rough way to spend an afternoon at a track this series had never raced before.
Riggs and Honeycutt both said the contact was a racing incident, no hard feelings. Do you buy that, or does a restart like that always end up with somebody owing somebody a favor down the line. Tell us in the comments.
The Bottom Line
Grant Enfinger's patience beat everyone else's aggression at a brand new track, and that is usually how first-time races at a venue go. Remember the name Lime Rock Park. The way Saturday went, the Truck Series will be back.
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