Daniel Suarez will drive the No. 7 for Spire Motorsports within the Cup Sequence subsequent season, the staff introduced Wednesday.
Suarez will substitute Justin Haley, who will depart the staff after this season. Freeway Insurance coverage will function the staff’s anchor accomplice and shall be showcased on the No. 7 automobile starting with the 2026 Daytona 500.
Chase Elliott and William Byron are under the cutline getting into Sunday’s playoff race at Martinsville on NBC and Peacock.
“I believe his resume, clearly, speaks for itself,” stated Spire Motorsports co-owner Jeff Dickerson throughout Wednesday’s announcement.
“He’s been a mainstay within the storage for a number of years. When it got here right down to it, it’s only a factor the place I believe we’d like one another. I believe all of us love a very good story of redemption and giving folks a platform to show doubters incorrect.
“Daniel wants to indicate all people that this 12 months was an outlier, and we need to present all people that the 7 automobile’s efficiency this 12 months was an outlier as effectively.”
The 2027 Daytona 500 shall be on Feb. 21, avoiding a battle with the Tremendous Bowl that 12 months.
The 33-year-old Suarez was in want of a experience as a result of he shall be changed by 19-year-old Connor Zilisch subsequent season at Trackhouse Racing.
Suarez was the primary driver for Trackhouse and has been with the staff since 2021. Suarez scored each of his Cup victories with the group and completed a career-best tenth with the staff in 2022.
NASCAR’s high three nationwide collection will set the fields for his or her championship finales.
Suarez enters Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway (2 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock) twenty eighth within the factors. He has two top-five finishes and 7 top-10 finishes this 12 months.
Spire Motorsports has three Cup vehicles, fielding entries this season for Michael McDowell, Carson Hocevar and Haley. McDowell is twenty first in factors, Hocevar is twenty third and Haley is thirty first.
Spire Motorsports has gained three poles, scored six high fives, 16 high 10s and led 233 laps — all season highs for a company that started racing full-time in 2019.
“When you have a look at the final three years at how Spire Motorsports has grown, I discussed this to Jeff,” Suarez stated, “three years in the past, I in all probability wasn’t Spire Motorsports as an possibility. Proper now, I consider that is the quickest rising staff in NASCAR, and I need to be a part of that. I do know they’re not even near be achieved. They’re simply getting began.”
