Spire Motorsports has introduced Shane van Gisbergen as the motive force of its No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado subsequent week at Charlotte Motor Speedway. NationsGuard will sponsor the trouble.
This might be SVG’s third profession begin within the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence, and his second on an oval. The three-time Supercars champion ran at IRP in 2023 with Niece Motorsports, ending nineteenth. He drove for the time final weekend at Watkins Glen as nicely, putting third. Two days later within the Cup race, he earned his first win of the yr, beating Spire’s personal Michael McDowell.
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Van Gisbergen would be the second Trackhouse driver to pilot a Spire truck this yr, as teammate Connor Zilisch drove the identical truck to a runner-up end at The Glen.
For the Charlotte Truck, SVG might be teammates with fellow Cup drivers Kyle Busch and Carson Hocevar. Whereas all Chevrolet drivers, they every drive for various groups on the Cup degree, with solely Hocevar additionally driving for Spire within the high division.
Subsequent weekend, Charlotte will grow to be the primary oval SVG has pushed in any respect three nationwide ranges of NASCAR. He completed a decent 14th in final yr’s Coca-Cola 600, and fifteenth within the 2024 O’Reilly race on the observe.
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Spire has eleven wins within the Truck Sequence and two this yr — Busch at Atlanta and Hocevar at Texas. Each victories had been additionally 1-2 finishes for the group.
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