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Who Can Beat Layne Riggs? | Bristol Picks

The Grand National Show: Truck Series debuts with Layne Riggs atop the ten-driver Chase field. Mamba Smith, Davey Segal, Chris Wilner and Josh Sims break down the contenders and make their Bristol picks.

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Dylan "Mamba" Smith· Founder, Queen City Garage
||2 min read

The Grand National Show expands to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with Layne Riggs on top of the ten-driver Chase field and Bristol waiting as the first pressure test.

Dylan "Mamba" Smith, Davey Segal, Chris Wilner and FOX Sports' Josh Sims use the New Hampshire regular-season finale to measure Riggs against Kaden Honeycutt, Chandler Smith, Christian Eckes and the rest of the title contenders. Then each panelist makes a Bristol pick: Chandler Smith, Eckes, Riggs and Honeycutt split the table four ways.

Chapters

00:00 Animated Truck Series open
00:17 Meet the panel
01:53 The Chase starts at Bristol
02:18 The ten-driver Chase field
02:53 New Hampshire: Riggs makes the case
04:23 Front Row and the leading contenders
07:12 TRICON: Chandler Smith and Kaden Honeycutt
09:09 Honeycutt's breakthrough and Chase case
13:27 Chase seeds 1–5
13:57 Chase seeds 6–10
17:27 ThorSport and the veteran threats
20:27 McAnally-Hilgemann's three-truck Chase
21:17 The panel makes its Bristol picks
24:11 All four picks
25:56 Closing thoughts
26:28 QCG neon close

You'll hear from

Dylan "Mamba" Smith hosts. NASCAR analyst, TNT and B/R Racing. YouTube

Davey Segal is a SiriusXM NASCAR Radio host and producer. X

Chris Wilner is a pit reporter associated with MRN, NBC Sports and IMSA. X

Josh Sims is an Emmy Award-winning FOX NASCAR reporter and FOX Sports play-by-play announcer. X

Related

The Grand National Show: Truck Series is a Queen City Garage production for Grand National Today. Episode 1 runs 27 minutes.

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Dylan "Mamba" Smith

Founder, Queen City Garage

Dylan "Mamba" Smith is NASCAR's self-appointed Chief Hype Officer and the loudest voice in the room when it comes to stock car racing's next generation. His weekly column for Grand National Today brings the energy, the takes, and the unfiltered enthusiasm that the short track world runs on. If there's a driver making moves, a rivalry heating up, or a race that deserves more attention than it's getting, Mamba's on it.

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