TC Daily Pit Stop: Noah Gragson Officially to Front Row in 2025; Rodney Childers Joins Spire; Conor Daly Adds Three Truck Races with Niece; Van Alst Running Xfinity at Indy with SSGL
TC Daily Pit Stop: Wednesday, July 10, 2024
BREAKING NEWS: Noah Gragson Joins 2025 Front Row Motorsports Driver Lineup in Multi-Year Deal
As expected, Noah Gragson has officially joined Front Row Motorsports as a driver for the organization’s three-car NASCAR Cup Series program beginning in 2025. The driver and team made the announcement on Wednesday afternoon at NASCAR Studios. Gragson’s contract with the team is a multiyear deal.
Gragson will join Todd Gilliland, who was signed to a multiyear contract extension in June, and a driver to be announced as drivers in the team’s NASCAR Cup Series stable next year.
The car number, sponsorship partners, and crew chief for Gragson’s entry will be announced at a later date.
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Rodney Childers Joins Spire Motorsports as Crew Chief of No. 7 in 2025
While not a driver announcement, a major Silly Season domino dropped on Tuesday as championship-winning crew chief Rodney Childers officially announced that he will join the Spire Motorsports NASCAR Cup Series program in 2025. Childers will be paired with Corey LaJoie on the No. 7 team.
Childers, 48, is a 40-time NASCAR Cup Series race winning crew chief, and has led rookie contender Josh Berry to a solid first year in the NASCAR Cup Series this season with Stewart-Haas Racing.
As Childers moves over as LaJoie’s crew chief, LaJoie’s current crew chief Ryan Sparks will focus solely on his duties as competition director for the team, which he has been performing while also crew chiefing for the No. 7 team.
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Conor Daly Returns to Niece Motorsports for Three NCTS Events
Conor Daly will return to Niece Motorsports for three NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series events this season in the team’s No. 44 Chevrolet Silverado. The first of the three starts for Daly will come at Indianapolis Raceway Park on July 19, and he’ll return for Kansas Speedway in September and Homestead-Miami Speedway in October.
Daly will have primary sponsorship backing from Power Plus at IRP and Polkadot at Kansas and Homestead.
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Chicago Top-Five Continues Stealthy Xfinity Rookie Campaign for Jesse Love
Jesse Love may not have three victories this season like his fellow NASCAR Xfinity Series Rookie of the Year competitor Shane van Gisbergen, but the driver, who won at Talladega Superspeedway earlier this year, has flashed incredible consistent. That consistency continued with a fifth-place finish at the Chicago Street Course on Saturday.
With his second consecutive top-five finish, Love, who drives the No. 2 Chevrolet Camaro for Richard Childress Racing, has moved to fifth in the NASCAR Xfinity Series regular-season standings.
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Greg Van Alst Driving for SS-GreenLight Racing at Indianapolis
Greg Van Alst and his longtime primary sponsorship partner CB Fabricating will join forces for a NASCAR Xfinity Series start at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the full-time ARCA Menards Series competitor will pilot the No. 07 SS-GreenLight Racing Chevrolet Camaro.
“I am beyond thrilled to be racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway next weekend,” said Van Alst. “The opportunity to compete at such a historic venue on the track’s oval is a dream come true, and I am fully prepared to give it my all.”