Spire Motorsports Race to Stop Suicide 200 Race Advance

• In 10 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series starts at Kansas Speedway, Spire Motorsports has earned one pole, one win, two top-five and four top-10 finishes. Carson Hocevar led 75 laps in the May 2025 event en route to Victory Lane.
• The NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series will contend the second race of The Chase Saturday at Kansas. Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 and 77 teams sit sixth and fourth, respectively, in the owner point standings.
• The Race to Stop Suicide 200 from Kansas Speedway will be televised live on FS1 Saturday, Sept. 26 beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The 20th of 25 points-paying races on the 2026 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series schedule will be broadcast live on the NASCAR Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

Brennan Poole – Driver, No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado RST

• Brennan Poole will pilot Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 Delaware Life Chevrolet Silverado RST in Saturday’s Race to Stop Suicide 200 at Kansas Speedway. Poole competes full time in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series with Alpha Prime Racing and is in his third full season with the organization.
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• With just six races remaining to determine the 2026 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Owner’s Championship, the No. 7 team sits sixth after last weekend’s race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, just 53 markers behind the leader. The team enters Round 20 of 25 with two wins, seven top-five and 11 top-10 finishes. In the team’s most recent start, Connor Mosack raced the No. 7 Chevy to a 25th-place finish last Thursday at Bristol.
• Poole began racing go-karts at eight-years-old and made his UARA STARS late model stock car debut in 2009. Over 47 starts, he collected 10 wins, 27 top-five and 34 top-10 finishes. He further established himself in the ARCA Menards Racing Series, registering six victories, 18 top fives and 27 top 10s over 35 starts. In 2015, Poole made his O’Reilly Auto Parts Series debut with HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi. The following year, he moved to Chip Ganassi Racing where he qualified for the NASCAR Playoffs and finished eighth in points. He’s made 43 career NASCAR Cup Series starts, including a full campaign in 2020.
• Poole started fourth and finished fourth in October 2012 in his lone ARCA Menards Series start at Kansas Speedway.
• The Woodlands, Texas native made four previous CRAFTSMAN Truck Series starts at Kansas Speedway where he earned back-to-back 12th-place finishes in 2020 when the division raced on back-to-back days at the popular mile-and-a-half Kansas City, Kan., oval.
• The veteran racer owns eight NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series starts at Kansas Speedway, including a venue-best seventh-place finish in the 2016 edition of the Kansas Lottery 300.
• Poole will pilot Spire Manufacturing chassis SMT-091 Saturday afternoon. The truck has made seven starts, scoring four top-five and seven top-10 finishes, including Connor Mosack’s fifth-place finish at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway in March. In the chassis’ maiden voyage at Kansas Speedway last May, William Byron finished second. Overall, the truck has recorded a 5.7 average finish.

Brennan Poole Quote
What are your thoughts heading into Kansas?
“I’m just super excited and grateful for the opportunity to race for such a great team like Spire Motorsports. It’s incredible to see what they’ve done over the last five to six years and I just couldn’t be more thrilled to have an opportunity to race for such an awesome team. Thank you to Jeff Dickerson and everybody for giving me the opportunity.”

Brian Pattie – Crew Chief, No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado RST

• Brian Pattie is the crew chief of Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado RST, an entry that sees an assortment of all-star caliber drivers behind the wheel throughout the 2026 season.
• In the No. 7 team’s most recent outing at Kansas Speedway, Pattie led driver Carson Hocevar to victory in May 2025. Hocevar led 75 of the event’s 134 laps and survived last-lap contact en route to his fifth victory in the series and first aboard a Spire Motorsports-prepared Chevy Silverado.
• Pattie has called 26 NASCAR Cup Series races on the Kansas asphalt, and calls Juan Pablo Montaya’s 2009 fourth-place finish a venue/series best. He also guided Clint Bowyer to a fifth-place finish in 2013.
• Through 95 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races, the veteran crew chief has tallied nine wins, 30 top-five and 47 top-10 finishes.

Nick Sanchez – Driver, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado RST

• Nick Sanchez will race Spire Motorsports’ No. 77 Freeway Insurance Chevrolet Silverado RST in Saturday’s Race to Stop Suicide 200 at Kansas Speedway.
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• Sanchez was at the controls of the No. 77 Chevy in July at Indianapolis Raceway Park where he started third and finished fifth. The 25-year-old also races a limited schedule in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series for Peterson Motorsports.
• In nine starts at Kansas Speedway, across the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series and ARCA Menards Series, Sanchez has logged two wins, four top-five and eight top-10 finishes and has yet to finish worse than 12th in any series at the challenging 1.5-mile Kansas City, Kan., oval.
• In 48 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series starts, the division’s 2023 Rookie of the Year, has recorded seven poles, two victories, 14 top-five and 27 top-10 finishes. Sanchez earned wins at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway and Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway during the 2024 campaign.
• Sanchez will be at the controls of Spire Manufacturing chassis SMT-092 Saturday afternoon. This is the same truck Carson Hocevar raced to Victory Lane in May’s SpeedyCash.com 250 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Nick Sanchez Quote
With four CRAFTSMAN Truck Series starts at Kansas Speedway, you have three top 10’s with an eighth-place average finish. What is it about Kansas that clicks so well for you?
“Kansas is a track where I feel like I’ve always run good. From ARCA to the Truck Series to the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series. I have two ARCA wins there. I think I was in the top 10 in the O’Reilly Series car last year, so it’s just a good track for me. I’m excited to go there and have another shot at a win. I think we’re more than capable of that.”

Chad Walter – Crew Chief, No. 77 Chevrolet Silverado RST

• Chad Walter is the crew chief of Spire Motorsports No. 77 Chevrolet Silverado RST in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series, an entry that will see multiple all-star caliber drivers behind the wheel throughout the 2026 season.
• Walter has called nine CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races at Kansas Speedway where he’s earned two top-10 finishes, highlighted by a seventh-place result in September 2024 with Rajah Caruth.
• Between NASCAR’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and CRAFTSMAN Truck Series, the Albion, N.Y. native has racked up seven wins, 61 top fives and 149 top 10s while serving in the crew chief role.

About Spire Motorsports …
Spire Motorsports fields full-time entries in the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series and Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing.

The team, co-owned by longtime NASCAR industry executive Jeff Dickerson and TWG Motorsports CEO Dan Towriss earned its inaugural NASCAR Cup Series victory in its first full season of competition when Justin Haley took the checkered flag in the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway July 7, 2019. Less than three years later, William Byron drove Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado its first NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series win April 7, 2022, at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. The team’s most recent victory came May 24, 2026, when Daniel Suárez won the NASCAR Cup Series’ Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway.

In 2026, Spire Motorsports campaigns the Nos. 7, 71 and 77 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1s in the NASCAR Cup Series and the Nos. 7 and 77 Chevrolet Silverado RSTs in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series. The Mooresville, N.C., organization also fields the No. 77 410 sprint car in Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing competition.