The Navy 250 is the first NASCAR race ever held on an active military base — 50 laps on San Diego Navy asphalt nobody has driven. Layne Riggs is the favorite at +240. Here are the five trucks that can win it — ranked, with odds.
The Navy 250 is the first NASCAR race ever held on an active military base — 50 laps around 3.4 miles of San Diego Navy asphalt nobody on Earth has driven. Layne Riggs is the favorite at +240. Here are the five trucks that can win the first checkered flag ever waved over Naval Base Coronado.
Coronado Street Course · Navy 250 · June 2026 · By PitByNumbers Staff · 8 min read The Truck card drops AFTER practice and qualifying. Practice and qualifying are Friday afternoon — and on a street course nobody’s driven, they decide everything. We don’t post the card until we’ve seen who’s fast and who’s in the wall.
Check back Friday evening, or get it emailed to you the second it’s live. Why these five Layne Riggs is the rightful favorite — he leads the championship by 26 points, he’s won three times in 2026, and he’s the only full-time driver in this field who has already won a Truck street race this year. But “favorite” and “lock” are different words, especially on a track that has never existed before Friday.
No practice data carries over. No setup notebook means anything. When nobody has a baseline, qualifying and raw adaptability decide the race — and that’s exactly the door these other four walk through.
1. Layne Riggs — To Win (+240) Start with the favorite, because he’s earned it. Layne Riggs leads the championship by 26 points, has won three times in 2026, and is the only full-time driver in this field holding a Truck street-course trophy from this season.
At St. Petersburg in February he started 28th after qualifying washed out, carved his way forward, won Stage 2, led a race-high 41 of 80 laps and held off Ty Majeski on fuel to win by .879 seconds. Front Row Motorsports built a road and street program on purpose this year, and Riggs leaned on sports-car ace Joey Hand and Ford’s simulator to do it: “We’ve been working on this racetrack in the simulator at Ford Racing since December.” He’s now an eight-time career winner — tied for second-most among Ford Truck drivers ever.
2. Kaden Honeycutt — To Win (+370) Now the value. Honeycutt is second in points and leads every full-time driver in the series with eight top-fives — and six weeks before San Diego, he won the last road course on the calendar.
At Watkins Glen in May he beat Connor Zilisch by 0.902 seconds with Shane van Gisbergen third, for his first career Truck win in his 67th start, and he swept the day after winning the ARCA race that morning. He drives the exact No. 11 Tricon Toyota that won 12 races and the 2025 championship with Corey Heim, with the same championship-winning crew chief in Scott Zipadelli.
If you want the best equipment in the garage at nearly double the favorite’s return , here it is. 3. Gio Ruggiero — To Win (+600) The dark horse, and on pure road-course rate, maybe the most impressive name here.
The 2025 Truck Rookie of the Year has three top-five finishes in his last four road-course starts — third at the Charlotte Roval last fall, third at Watkins Glen last fall, third at Lime Rock last summer. That’s roughly a 3.0 average finish when the track turns both ways, the best in this field. He’s fourth in 2026 points, he’s already a winner (Talladega), and he drives Tricon equipment equal to Honeycutt’s.
The talent is not the question. 4. Ty Majeski — To Win (+850) The best road racer who can’t close one out.
Majeski, the 2024 series champion, finished 2nd at St. Pete this year and owns a stack of road-course top-threes — third at Sonoma in 2023, third at COTA in both 2023 and 2024, second at Lime Rock in 2025. He’s a genuine road-course front-runner for the longest-tenured team in the series, and the one-lap speed is real: he won the pole at Michigan two weeks ago, his 13th career pole.
When the track turns both ways, he’s almost always there at the end. 5. Chandler Smith — To Win (+1200) And the longshot with a real floor.
Smith is third in points, won the 2026 season opener at Daytona for his eighth career Truck win, and put up two clean road-course top-fives this year — fourth at St. Pete and fifth at Watkins Glen — in the same Front Row equipment that produced the favorite. He’s the textbook each-way flier: a top-five-caliber road racer at a longshot’s price, with the team package validated by his own teammate.
Layne Riggs is the best truck in the field, and Friday night he’ll probably remind everyone why. Probably. But it’s a street course nobody has driven, on bumpy Navy asphalt, with concrete walls and a 36-truck field where everyone makes the show — and the value sitting at +370 already won the last race that turned right.
Practice and qualifying are Friday afternoon. They will tell us who’s fast and who’s already in the wall, and that’s exactly why our bet card doesn’t drop until after. Check back Friday evening for the card.
The first checkered flag in the history of this place is up for grabs — and five trucks can take it.