North Carolina Education Lottery 200

Layne Riggs won the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 under caution after a long, strange Charlotte weekend turned the Truck race into a Sunday-morning sprint against both the field and the clock. Rain pushed the race off its Friday-night window, delayed it three times and forced NASCAR to run under adverse-conditions rules with a noon ET cutoff. When Chandler Smith spun beneath Connor Zilisch off Turn 2 on Lap 106, the final yellow effectively decided the race. Riggs had already taken control, and the clock ran out after 110 of the scheduled 134 laps.

The win carried a heavier tone than the usual Front Row Motorsports celebration. Riggs dedicated the race to Kyle Busch, whose death earlier in the week framed the entire Charlotte weekend. After the burnout, Riggs climbed from the No. 34 Ford and bowed to the grandstand in Busch's signature style. It was not theater. It was the emotional center of the morning.

Kaden Honeycutt finished second and kept the Truck Series points lead by 11 over Riggs. Zilisch came home third from 24th after surviving the last restart fight, with Ben Rhodes and Giovanni Ruggiero completing the top five. Christian Eckes won Stage 1 and looked like a contender before finishing sixth. Corey Day started from the pole in the No. 7 Spire truck that Busch had been scheduled to drive, but his day ended in a violent Lap 47 crash after contact from Ruggiero sent the truck airborne on the backstretch.