Spire Motorsports NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Race at Talladega Advance

• In six NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series starts at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, Spire Motorsports has earned one top-five and three top-10 finishes. Rajah Caruth earned a team-best fourth-place finish in 2024.
• The NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series will contend the fifth race of The Chase – NASCAR’s playoff format – Friday at Talladega. Spire Motorsports’ Nos. 77 and 7 teams sit sixth and ninth, respectively, in the owner’s point standings.
• The 85-lap CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race from Talladega Superspeedway will be televised live on FS1 Friday, Oct. 23 beginning at 4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The 23rd 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.

Sammy Smith – Driver, No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado RST

• Sammy Smith will pilot Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 Spectrum Chevrolet Silverado RST in Friday’s NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
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• With just three races remaining to determine the 2026 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Owner’s Championship, Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 team sits ninth after last weekend’s race at Phoenix Raceway, 195 points behind the leader. The team enters race 23 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 an 11th-place finish.
• Friday’s 85-lap event will mark Smith’s 11th CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start and 10th with Spire Motorsports. He has tallied two top fives and six top 10s while boasting a 9.7 average finish.
• Friday’s 85 lapper will mark Smith’s first CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start at Talladega. His lone superspeedway start in the division came in February 2023 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway where he raced the No. 17 entry to a 14th-place finish.
• The Johnston, Iowa, native scored a dramatic victory in the 2024 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series United Rentals 250 at Talladega Superspeedway, charging from 27th to edge out Ryan Sieg by a scant 0.117 seconds to secure the win.
• In 137 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series starts, Smith has earned 29 top fives and 65 top 10s, claiming victories at Phoenix Raceway (March 2023), Talladega Superspeedway (2024) and Rockingham (N.C.) Speedway (2025).
• Smith will be at the controls of Spire Manufacturing chassis SMT-095 Friday afternoon. This is the same Chevy Silverado Michael McDowell qualified second in this year’s season opener at Daytona before a late-race incident relegated him to a 24th-place finish.

Sammy Smith Quote
What have you learned from your previous Talladega win that you can carry into this weekend?
“I feel like my approach has been just to put myself in positions where I feel like I can be aggressive. Obviously, Spire Motorsports will give me a great Chevrolet Silverado to do that. I’ve had a lot of experience and have been in some good situations to be able to win there, so I’m looking forward to this weekend.”

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’s seen an assortment of all-star caliber drivers behind the wheel throughout the 2026 season.
• The Pattie-Smith duo owns an average 8.3 finish in eight CRAFTSMAN Truck Series starts with their best finish coming at Richmond (Va.) Raceway where they registered a fourth-place result last season.
• The 51-year-old has called three CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races at the famed 2.66-mile venue, registering a series-best 13th-place finish last October with J.J. Yeley at the controls.
• In NASCAR Cup Series competition, Pattie led Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., to Talladega’s Victory Lane in May 2017, Stenhouse’s first Cup Series win. They followed it up with a Coke Zero Sugar 400 triumph at Daytona later that season.
• During his time at NEMCO Motorsports, Pattie led Joe Nemechek to NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series’ superspeedway wins at Talladega (April 2000) and Daytona (2002).
• Through 99 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races, the veteran crew chief has tallied nine wins, 30 top-five and 47 top-10 finishes, combined with a 9.9 average start and 13.5 average finish.

Austin Green – Driver, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado RST

• Austin Green will race Spire Motorsports’ No. 77 Gunk Chevrolet Silverado RST in Friday’s NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Talladega Superspeedway. Green is the son of 1994 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Champion and nine-time race winner David Green.
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• Green will make his NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series debut this weekend at Talladega where veteran Crew Chief Chad Walter will continue to lead the team’s efforts in the garage area and on pit road.
• The Concord, N.C., resident has competed across multiple disciplines in his career including the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, ARCA Menards Series, Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series (TA2), and INEX Legend Car Series.
• Green has 40 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series starts on his resume and has collected two top-five and 11 top-10 finishes. His best finish on NASCAR’s junior circuit came last October on Charlotte Motor Speedway’s ROVAL configuration where he started 10th and finished second.
• The 25-year-old driver started 31st and finished 10th this April in his lone O’Reilly Auto Parts Series start at the famed 2.66-mile Alabama superspeedway.
• With just three races remaining to determine the 2026 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Owner’s Championship, Spire Motorsports’ No. 77 team sits eighth in the standings, two markers behind seventh, with one win, seven top-five and 11 top-10 finishes. Last Friday at Phoenix Raceway, Tristan McKee raced the No. 77 Chevy to a 14th-place finish.
• Green will be at the controls of Spire Manufacturing chassis SMT-093 Friday afternoon. This is the same truck Carson Hocevar raced at Daytona International Speedway in February.

Austin Green Quote
What are your expectations heading into your first CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start this weekend at Talladega?
“I’m beyond grateful and excited for my first CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start this weekend. I can’t thank everyone at Spire Motorsports enough for the opportunity. I know they deliver fast trucks every week and I’m looking forward to seeing what we can achieve together.”

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

• Chad Walter is the Crew Chief of Spire Motorsports’ No. 77 Chevrolet Silverado RST, an entry that’s seen an assortment of all-star caliber drivers behind the wheel throughout the 2026 season.
• In nine O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Talladega races, Walter has called two top-five finishes, including a pair of third-place results with Kyle Busch (2006) and Casey Mears (2007).
• Walter guided Corey LaJoie to an eighth-place finish in the 2025 race at Talladega. The result marked Walter’s second top-10 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series effort at the legendary eastern Alabama tri-oval.
• Between NASCAR’s O’Reilly Auto Parts and CRAFTSMAN Truck Series, Walter has dialed up seven wins, 61 top five and 149 top 10s.

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.