B.J. McLeod joins Spire for surprise NASCAR Truck ...

Over the previous decade, B.J. McLeod has began 146 NASCAR Cup races, driving underfunded tools, however doing as one of the crucial revered field-fillers within the sport. His finest end was seventh, which got here in the summertime race at Daytona in 2022.

McLeod is a driver/proprietor at Reside Quick Motorsports and competed full-time earlier than promoting his Cup constitution to Spire Motorsports for round $40 million {dollars}. Since then, he has been working a restricted schedule in each the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Collection.

An enormous alternative 

Nonetheless, the 41-year-old has by no means gotten the possibility in really aggressive tools … till now. Spire Motorsports is providing McLeod the chance to pilot considered one of their Vans in subsequent weekend’s race at Charlotte. He has 41 begins within the Truck Collection with a finest end of fifteenth, however hasn’t competed within the sequence because the 2021 season.

At Charlotte, he’ll drive the No. 07 Spire Chevrolet Silverado with ‘Pigeon Forge Racing Coaster’ as the first sponsor, which is a brand new enterprise enterprise of his.

“Attending to race once more within the NASCAR truck sequence with an unbelievable workforce is an honor,” stated McLeod. “It’s an ideal partnership with Pigeon Forge Racing Coaster — velocity, adrenaline, and pure pleasure — each on the monitor and within the mountains. We’re able to placed on a present for the followers and make this experience one to recollect.”

Spire is likely one of the strongest groups within the Truck Collection since buying Kyle Busch Motorsports’ operation in 2023. This 12 months, that very same No. 07 truck has already visited Victory Lane with Kyle Larson at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Spire additionally earned a 1-2 end in the latest Truck race at Kansas with Carson Hocevar piloting the No. 7 to victory and William Byron ending second within the No. 07. Together with Larson and Byron, Nick Sanchez and Sammy Smith have additionally pushed the No. 07 truck this 12 months.