Now Streaming: Respect The Grind
By PGORDON
As Spire Motorsports embarks on a legacy-building season, we follow our teams through the ups-and-downs of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season. Respect the Grind from Spire Studios , opens in a new tab captures it all from near misses to first wins, crown-jewel victories and, of course, in-car karaoke.
Click the thumbnails below to recap the season thus far. Be sure to stay up to date as we close in on the end of the regular season and fight for Spire Motorsports' first post-season berth.
Respect the Grind Ep. 1 | The Daytona 500
NASCAR starts their season with the biggest race, the Daytona 500. In 2026, Michael McDowell and Carson Hocevar...
Respect the Grind Ep. 2 | Shake & Bake
Through the first six races into the NASCAR Cup Series season, Spire Motorsports has each of their teams inside the...
Respect the Grind Episode 3 | Eye of the Hurricane
After 91 starts in the NASCAR Cup Series, Carson Hocevar secured his first win at the famous Talladega Superspeedway.
Respect the Grind Episode 4 | When It Rains, It Pours
There's not many races bigger than the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day Weekend. In 2026, it was the No. 7 Spire...
Respect the Grind Episode 5 | Ebbs and Flows
After a win in the Coca-Cola 600, Spire Motorsports kicked off the summer-stretch of races at Nashville...
Respect the Grind Episode 6 | Everything and the Kitchen Sink
Deep into the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series regular season, Spire Motorsports works toward clinching their berth in The...
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.