Spire Motorsports LiUNA 150 Race Report 2026
By PGORDON
The NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series returned to Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., for Saturday's LiUNA 150. Parker Kligerman earned a venue-best result for Spire Motorsports collecting a fourth-place finish, with Connor Mosack coming home 18th after sustaining damage in Stage 2. The No. 7 team sits fourth in the owner championship point standings and the No. 77 in ninth with four races remaining in the regular season.
Kligerman started 16th in his CRAFTSMAN Truck Series debut at the track where he began his racing career. The Westport, Conn., native was scored seventh in the No. 77 Delaware Life Chevrolet Silverado RST to end Stage 2 and lined up from the eighth row after several teams elected not to pit at the stage break. Kligerman slowly maneuvered his way to the front, and despite damage to the nose of his Chevrolet, the 35-year-old lined up on the inside of the third row for the final restart with three laps remaining and maintained his position within the top five until the checkered flag. Mosack qualified second in the No. 7 Friends of Jaclyn Chevrolet Silverado RST and remained a fixture inside the top five through the opening stage. Contact in Stage 2 caused right-front, left-rear and rear brake damage, dropping Mosack outside the top 20, forcing the team to make repairs while managing the damage for the remainder of the race. A late-race caution in the third stage provided one final opportunity for adjustments, Mosack charged forward in the closing laps to salvage an 18th-place finish.
Next up, the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series heads to the .625-mile North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway on Saturday, July 18. The Faith Fest 250 will be televised live on FS1 at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The 15th of 25 races on the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series calendar will also be broadcast live on the NASCAR Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.
"We had a really fast Friends of Jaclyn Chevrolet from the time we unloaded, and qualifying second showed the speed this team brought to the track. I felt like we were in a good position early, but once we got the damage in Stage 2, it became a battle just to keep making laps and get everything we could out of it. The guys never quit working on it, and the adjustments they made gave me something to race with at the end. An 18th-place finish isn’t what we were capable of today, but I’m proud of the effort from everyone on this No. 7 team."
“I appreciate everyone at Spire and Delaware Life for this opportunity. We were kind of on damage control that last stage after getting nose damage. The truck got really tight. Maybe if I could’ve got around the 17 quicker, I might have had a shot at the leaders. Overall, I think we were okay. We weren't great today. A lot of things I wish I could have told them to do differently, and a lot of things I learned throughout the day. We just kind of did some old stock car stuff and stayed on the track and wrestled our way to a top five.”
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.
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