Spire Motorsports Savagely Roast Justin Haley After His Farewell Race in Phoenix

Published 11/08/2021, 9:01 AM EST

NASCAR drivers switching teams is inevitable, unless the name is Jimmie Johnson. Not many have been so loyal to one team that they stayed with them for their entire career. In fact, it is a general acceptance that the drivers will come and go. In the case of Justin Haley, the 22-year-old is leaving Spire Motorsports to join Kaulig Racing in 2022.

Following the final race of the 2021 season at Phoenix, Spire Motorsports decided to roast Haley. As it turns out, the driver discovered a small banner that read, ‘Later, Traitor‘. Interestingly, Haley took it in stride and thanked the team for the ‘kind note’ before he departed.

Thx for the kind note, love u 2 @SpireMotorsport 😆 pic.twitter.com/BYsr6zuzyw
— Justin Haley (@Justin_Haley_) November 7, 2021

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Next year, Spire Motorsports will field Corey LaJoie in a single car entry. Meanwhile, Corey’s crew chief Ryan Sparks tweeted, “Fun working with ya bud, in 312 laps you are dead to us! Haha jk…kinda! Good luck next year!”. With that, fans too wished Haley luck on his future endeavours. All this was while they enjoyed the banter between the driver and the team.

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In essence, the driver is reuniting with Kaulig Racing, having raced for them since 2019 in the Xfinity Series. Earlier, he competed for the Cup Series outfit at the Talladega Superspeedway this year. On that occasion, he recorded a fine 16th place, though the team’s best finish came at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. Over there, AJ Allmendinger snatched a shock win against all odds.

He followed it up with a Top 5 at Circuit of the Americas and 7th at the Daytona road course. Meanwhile, Kaz Grala, another Kaulig Racing Driver, has a best finish of 6th, which came at the Talladega Superspeedway.

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Without a doubt, those incredible performances have laid out the building blocks of Kaulig Racing’s success in the Cup Series. So the outfit is fielding Haley and AJ Allmendinger for the new season, though the latter is sharing his ride.

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Dhruv George is a senior Motorsports author for EssentiallySports, having authored nearly 12000 articles spanning different sports like F1, NASCAR, Tennis, NFL, and eSports. He graduated with a PG Diploma in Journalism from the Xavier Institute of Communications. Dhruv has also conducted interviews with F1 driver Pierre Gasly and Moto2 rider Tony Arbolino.