Scott Riggs

Russell Scott Riggs ( born January 1, 1971 in Bahama, North Carolina ) is a NASCAR driver. Riggs is a free agent at the moment. Most recently, he drove the Toyota Camry with the number 36 for Tommy Baldwin Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

Career

Early career

Riggs began his racing career at the age of 14 years in the American Motorcyclist Association, where he won the German National Championship in North Carolina for two consecutive years. At the age of 17 he began to drive in the NASCAR Mini Stock Division. There he won twelve races in his first three years. The next decade he went into this series and was twice champion on the Southern National Speedway.

In 1999, Riggs his debut in the Craftsman Truck Series at Indianapolis Raceway Park. There he took the number 84 for Long Brothers Racing. He started in seventh place and finished the race in 19th position He also drove at Richmond International Raceway, where he finished 23rd. A year later, in 2000, he drove the Dodge Ram with the start number 86 for Impact Motorsports in the Craftsman Truck Series, finishing seven top ten positions. Towards the end of the season he was released and drove a race at the California Speedway for Brevak Racing, where he finished 16th. In the next season he drove for Ultra Motorsports and learned five victories, the first at the Martinsville Speedway. In the championship, he finished in fifth.

Nationwide Series

In 2002, Riggs moved to the Busch Series, now Nationwide Series to drive the Ford Taurus with the start number 10 for ppc Racing. He won his first race at the Nashville Superspeedway and two weeks later in California. At the end of the season, he finished the tenth position of the drivers' championship, so he won the Rookie of the Year Award. A season later, Riggs won two more races, which he only in a spectacular overtaking in the final lap on the Gateway International Raceway chose one of the races themselves. At the end of the year he was sixth in the championship and won the award for the most popular pilots, the Most Popular Driver Award

Sprint Cup

In 2004, Riggs signed a contract with MB2 Motorsports Chevrolet Monte Carlo in order to drive the # 10. Riggs failed to qualify for all but one race. On the Dover International Speedway and he finished fifth in the overall standings at the end of the season 29 He finished fifth in the Rookie -of -the- Year standings. In 2005 he was at the race in Martinsville for the first time on the pole position. On the Michigan International Speedway Riggs also scored a second place finish.

At the end of the year, Riggs left the team and joined Evernham Motorsports. In the 2006 season, Riggs failed due to a mechanical problem in qualifying not participate in the Daytona 500 and was not set for this, because he had too few Owner Points, points that were collected from the corresponding car number from the previous season. The team finished the 2006 season in sufficiently good position in the standings, so that, thanks to the Owner Points had a safe starting place in the first five races of 2007. Riggs was able to go twice in a row in the top 10. This was the case in Martinsville and Texas.

Riggs was on pole position for the Coca -Cola 600 and the Nextel Open, the qualifying race for the NASCAR Nextel All-Star Challenge at Lowe 's Motor Speedway. He won the race and led in all but one round. In the NASCAR Nextel All-Star Challenge, he was tenth. His best result in a race in the 2006 season was the fourth place in the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Scott Riggs was also the Bank of America 500 on pole.

The season of 2007 was problematic for Riggs. He fell out of the top - 35 of the Owner Points, thus had no safe starting place more and failed to qualify for several races. In the summer, he did not renew his contract with Evernham and on 3 October 2007, it was announced that he will be in the 2008 season, piloting the start number 66 Haas CNC Racing. In the last two races of the year 2007, he was replaced by Patrick Carpentier.

Riggs was released by Haas CNC when the team Tony Stewart committed and became Stewart Haas Racing. Scott Riggs joined Tommy Baldwin Racing on it to drive the Toyota Camry in the 2009 season with the start number 36. Later he was discharged whereupon Mike Skinner, Brian Simo and Patrick Carpentier took over his post. At the moment, Riggs is a free agent.