Dale Earnhardt Jr. defends Layne Riggs in dustup with Corey Heim

Dale Earnhardt Jr. had some interesting things to say about the dustup between Layne Riggs and Corey Heim at the NASCAR Truck Series race at North Wilkesboro Speedway. On Dale Jr. Download, Earnhardt said he understood why Heim was mad at Riggs for spinning him out during the final lap of the race.

“[Riggs] didn’t run Corey into the fence, but he did put him in the marbles,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. “Corey had every right to be mad. Corey came to him and said, ‘You’re driving like a f***ing idiot. You’re driving like an a**hole, and if you don’t change, I’m going to take care of it.'”

Earnhardt also said that Riggs did the same thing he did at Kansas with his incident with Carson Hocevar. And while the NASCAR legend is not a fan of Riggs going after opposing drivers late in races, he admitted that the move could have worked at North Wilkesboro.

Corey Heim doesn’t understand why Layne Riggs spun him out

“That might have been a winning move,” he said. “Even though it was a little bit dirty, it’s what I asked for, it’s what I want. He did not fence him. He did run him into the marbles, but he didn’t destroy him and force him out of the gas. He didn’t put him in a situation where Corey Heim’s like, ‘S**t, I got to lift for I’m hitting the wall here.

“Corey had every right to be angry. But instead of going, ‘Oh, I didn’t mean to do that at all, we’ll talk about it, we’ll figure it out,’ Layne said, ‘I don’t give a f**k about nobody but my team.’ I was like, ‘There it is.'”

Corey Heim was looking to win the North Wilkesboro race until he was spun out by Layne Riggs. After the race, Heim expressed his disappointment in the incident.

“Just why? More than anything,” Heim said, per NASCAR. “He tried to do it to the 7 (Carson Hocevar) last week for the win, and mission accomplished for him, I guess, this week – and it cost him one, too. I don’t know. We’ve given up so many of them this year after dominating the race. The 38 (Chandler Smith) was the only other guy that was rightfully good. I felt like he deserved to win over anyone else, not the 34 (Riggs). I got really loose into (Turn) 3. Just struggled being loose on the short runs, and he had an opportunity, and he wrecked me. Just disappointed.”