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Spire Motorsports has five top-20 finishes in 18 previous NASCAR Cup Series starts at Pocono Raceway, and Carson Hocevar owns the team’s best result there with a 17th-place finish in 2024. That record gives the Mooresville, North Carolina organization a clear baseline entering the Great American Getaway 400.
The Pocono number is modest, but it is concrete: five top-20s across 18 starts. For a team that fields full-time entries in the NASCAR Cup Series, that track history shows it has been able to get at least one car inside the front half of the field often enough to matter, even if the breakthrough run at the triangle has not yet turned into a top-15 finish.
Hocevar’s 17th place in 2024 remains the standard at Pocono for Spire. He drove the No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, while Luke Lambert served as crew chief. That result sits ahead of the team’s other Cup Series starts at the track and gives the No. 77 group a specific target to chase rather than a vague expectation.
Spire’s current Cup lineup at the track includes Daniel Suárez in the No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 with Ryan Sparks as crew chief, Michael McDowell in the No. 71 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 with Travis Peterson atop the pit box, and Hocevar in the No. 77 with Lambert. The team is also active beyond Cup, fielding full-time entries in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series and Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing.
Hocevar Sets The Pocono Mark
The 17th-place finish by Hocevar is the team’s best Pocono result, and it is the benchmark that defines the rest of the weekend. It also stands out because it is the lone finish in the verified facts that moves Spire closest to the top 15 at this track, which makes it the clearest measure of progress available.
That matters for the No. 77 group because Pocono has not been a place where Spire has stacked up top-tier results. Five top-20 finishes in 18 starts means the team has produced respectable runs in fewer than one-third of its Cup appearances there, a pace that leaves room for improvement without suggesting the team is starting from zero.
Spire’s Cup Lineup At Pocono
Suárez, McDowell and Hocevar form the Cup-side core for Spire in 2026, and each car carries a defined role in the organization’s broader effort. The No. 7, No. 71 and No. 77 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1s give Spire three chances to push past the track history already on the books.
The team’s recent milestones add context to that push. Justin Haley gave Spire its inaugural NASCAR Cup Series victory at Daytona International Speedway on July 7, 2019, William Byron delivered the organization’s first NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series win at Martinsville Speedway on April 7, 2022, and Suárez won the NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 24, 2026. Against that backdrop, Pocono offers another test of whether the Cup program can convert steady top-20 runs into something better.
Great American Getaway 400 Context
For readers watching the Great American Getaway 400, the practical takeaway is simple: Spire arrives with a usable Pocono history, but not a dominant one. The numbers say the team can get cars into the top 20 here, and Hocevar’s 2024 finish gives the No. 77 an identifiable target.
That leaves the weekend focused on execution inside the three-car Cup effort. If Spire can turn one of those entries into a result better than 17th, it would move the team beyond its current Pocono standard and give its 2026 lineup a stronger marker at a track that has already provided a clear floor.
