{"id":58910,"date":"2025-10-23T11:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/suarez-replaces-haley-at-spire-motorsports-new-nascar-chapter\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:58:45","slug":"suarez-replaces-haley-at-spire-motorsports-new-nascar-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/suarez-replaces-haley-at-spire-motorsports-new-nascar-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Su\u00e1rez Replaces Haley at Spire Motorsports: New NASCAR Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 Daniel Su\u00e1rez, the only Mexican driver in NASCAR’s top category, has been announced as the replacement for Justin Haley at Spire Motorsports.\n\nSu\u00e1rez, who was the first driver hired by Trackhouse Racing in 2021, will be replaced after five seasons by 19-year-old Connor Zilisch next year.\n\n

We believe that both Su\u00e1rez and the No. 7 Chevrolet team have the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to compete weekly.<\/p>Jeff Dickerson, Co-owner of Spire<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSu\u00e1rez hasn’t won any races this year and was left out of the 16-driver playoffs, while Haley is 31st in the Cup standings, with only two top-ten finishes. Haley achieved Spire’s only Cup victory in history at Daytona International Speedway in July 2019.\n\n

I think we need each other. We all love redemption stories and giving people a platform to prove the doubters wrong. Daniel needs to prove that this year was an exception, and we want to prove that the performance of car 7 this year was also an exception.<\/p>Jeff Dickerson, Co-owner of Spire<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSu\u00e1rez won both Cup career races with Trackhouse and finished 10th in the 2022 standings. Spire will be the fifth team in 10 years for the 2016 Xfinity Series champion.\n\nThis year, he ranks 28th in the standings, with two top-five finishes and seven top-ten finishes. Su\u00e1rez mentioned that Dickerson was one of the first people he called when he found out he wouldn’t be staying at Trackhouse.\n\nDan Towriss, CEO of TWG Motorsports, became the majority shareholder of Spire this year, as the NASCAR team was added to a racing portfolio that also owns the Cadillac F1 team, which will launch next season, as well as Andretti Global in IndyCar.\n\n

If you look at the last three years of Spire Motorsports’ growth, three years ago I probably wasn’t considering Spire Motorsports as an option. I think this is the fastest growing team in NASCAR, and I want to be a part of that. I know they’re not even close to being done. They’re just getting started.<\/p>Daniel Su\u00e1rez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSpire has three Cup cars: Michael McDowell is 21st in points, Carson Hocevar 23rd, and Haley. The team has achieved three poles, six top-five finishes, 16 top-ten finishes, and led 233 laps, season highs for an organization that began competing in 2019.\n\nFreeway Insurance, an insurance broker and distributor, will be Su\u00e1rez’s main sponsor.\n\nSu\u00e1rez will now be under the same umbrella as his Mexican compatriot Sergio P\u00e9rez, who will join Valtteri Bottas as the first two Cadillac drivers. Su\u00e1rez and P\u00e9rez usually have significant sponsorship from Mexican entities, but Dickerson said they were not a package for TWG.\n\n

There was no decree. We are a sales-based organization, right? So it’s like, ‘OK, if Checo goes to the F1 car, then, you know, we have the opportunity to take advantage of a passionate fanbase’, and things come together. But you don’t know how it’s going to be, right?<\/p>Jeff Dickerson, Co-owner of Spire<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

We dragged this out a bit, because we were hoping for a bit of spark with Justin, and you finally get to a point where you say: ‘Man, I don’t know if we’re doing him any good, and I don’t think we’re doing ourselves any good.’ By that time, Checo had already been announced.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 Daniel Su\u00e1rez, the only Mexican driver in NASCAR’s top category, has been announced as the replacement for Justin Haley at Spire Motorsports. Su\u00e1rez, who was the first driver hired by Trackhouse Racing in 2021, will be replaced after five seasons by 19-year-old Connor Zilisch next year. We believe that both Su\u00e1rez and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3895,10077,182,4246],"class_list":{"0":"post-58910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-daniel-suarez","9":"tag-mexican-driver","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-spire-motorsports"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}