Justin Haley will not return to Spire Motorsports next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The parties have agreed to part ways following the season finale at Phoenix Raceway next month. Haley, who drives the No. 7 Chevrolet, returned to Spire at the end of 2024, but has struggled this season, earning two top-10 finishes to date. He sits 31st in the standings with three races remaining, and the team underwent a crew chief change in the spring.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a decision that was not taken lightly,\u201d Jeff Dickerson, co-owner of Spire Motorsports, said. \u201cJustin has been a member of the Spire family since he was a teenager. We\u2019ve watched Justin grow from a young driver trying to make his mark in the sport to a proven winner. He helped strengthen our organization into what it is today. He made us winners and returned home after forging his own path in the Cup Series.<\/p>\n
\u201cJustin is the embodiment of a true racer who has quietly become a respected competitor within the NASCAR garage and will be an incredible asset to his next team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haley joined Spire Motorsports when it debuted in the Cup Series in 2019. The team ran on a part-time basis that season, but won with Haley in the summer event at Daytona International Speedway, which was weather-shortened.<\/p>\n
The triumph at Daytona was the organization\u2019s first, and thus far, only Cup Series victory.<\/p>\n
In five seasons at the Cup Series level, Haley has driven for Spire Motorsports, Kaulig Racing, and Rick Ware Racing. He has made 177 career starts.<\/p>\n
Spire Motorsports will announce its 2026 plans for the No. 7 team at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Haley will not return to Spire Motorsports next season.\u00a0 The parties have agreed to part ways following…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-303224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115373801766883620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}