COVID-19 suggestions leave Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 crew short-handed

Spire Motorsports launched Wednesday that Ryan Sparks, crew chief for Spire Motorsports’ No. 7 Cup Sequence crew, will be unavailable to resolve half in Sunday’s Dixie Vodka 400 and can no longer commute to Abode-Miami Speedway.

Additionally, two assorted members of the No. 7 crew will be indolent this weekend in adherence with the same directives.

Outdated school Cup Sequence crew chief, NBC Sports analyst and Spire Motorsports consultant Steve Letarte will call the bustle for the No. 7 crew in Sparks’ absence for the crew and driver Corey LaJoie.

In a previous interview with Motorsport.com, Letarte acknowledged his consultant characteristic enables him to “dwell fervent” with the unique operations in the sport.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Steve Letarte

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“My fear is my relevancy in the (TV) gross sales repute. Whereas I actually feel actually factual about bustle map and what occurs on the bustle discover, there are a large selection of transferring formulation in NASCAR that dangle changed in the final six years,” he acknowledged.

“This enables me to dwell connected. Now we dangle a contemporary automobile coming in the sport in yet every other year and this helps me dwell fervent, makes me more linked and keeps me as gorgeous as that that you just can well perchance also imagine while I’m in the gross sales repute.”