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Layne Riggs Sweeps Charlotte | Phoenix Picks

Layne Riggs passes Kaden Honeycutt with seven laps left at Charlotte and cuts the Chase lead to 17. Davey Segal, Mamba Smith and Chris Wilner also take on Kasey Kahne's return and make their Phoenix picks.

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Dylan "Mamba" Smith· Founder, Queen City Garage
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Layne Riggs won the Ecosave 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway from 13th on the grid, passing Chase leader Kaden Honeycutt on Lap 128 of 134 and winning by 0.596 seconds. It was his seventh NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win of 2026 and his second at Charlotte this year, and it cut Honeycutt's lead in the Chase, the Truck Series playoff, to 17 points with four races left. Honeycutt led 85 laps and won Stage 2 but tagged the outside wall defending the lead and finished third. Christian Eckes finished second for the second straight race.

Davey Segal hosts with Dylan "Mamba" Smith and Chris Wilner. They work through the last laps between Riggs and Honeycutt, whether the two can keep their rivalry clean at Martinsville, what Riggs took from his mistake at Kansas and why pit road keeps costing the No. 34. Then they take on Kasey Kahne's full-time return with Spire Motorsports in 2027, score last week's picks (Mamba had the winner) and pick the Zero Carbon Bioethanol 150 at Phoenix Raceway on Friday, Oct. 16: Mamba takes Kaden Honeycutt, Davey takes Layne Riggs and Chris takes Ty Majeski.

Chapters

00:00 Open
00:16 Welcome: Davey Segal, Mamba Smith and Chris Wilner
00:41 Layne Riggs sweeps Charlotte
04:43 A Martinsville slugfest?
10:40 Good for business: the next Ron Hornaday
12:31 What Riggs learned from Kansas
15:49 Pit road
18:33 Four to go: a two-horse race?
21:40 Kasey Kahne Fridays
25:54 Scoring the Charlotte picks
26:45 Phoenix picks
28:30 See you after Phoenix

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

Dylan "Mamba" Smith is a NASCAR analyst for TNT and B/R Racing. YouTube

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

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The Grand National Show: Truck Series is a Queen City Garage production for Grand National Today. Episode 4 runs 29 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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