May 3, 2025
Don't overlook Justin Haley this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. The Spire Motorsports driver qualified 15th for Sunday afternoon's Würth 400, and while that was the slowest lap among the three Spire Chevrolets, it is a step in the right direction for Haley and the No. 7 team, as he has an average starting position of 24.5 this season. Additionally, intermediate tracks have been pretty good for Haley this season, as he captured a 14th-place finish at Las Vegas earlier this year before coming home with a 10th-place result at Homestead. Looking at Texas specifically, this has been one of Haley's best tracks (when it comes to average finish) in the Next Gen era, as he has posted result of 24th, 13th, and third in the three races here with this car. The No. 7 Chevrolet was 13th-fastest in practice on Saturday afternoon. If the team is able to maintain track position for Haley on race day, he could be a sleeper for a top-10 result when it's all said and done. He's a tournament-style DFS option on DraftKings for sure, considering he's only priced at $5,700 this weekend, especially with interim crew chief, Ryan Sparks, calling the shots.
--Jordan McAbeeSource: TobyChristie.com
April 27, 2025
In one of the year's biggest surprises to date, champion crew chief Rodney Childers announced last Wednesday that he had resigned as Justin Haley's crew chief. Perhaps this served as a distraction since Haley ended up qualifying 37th, slowest of all the full-time chartered teams. However, the crew chief doesn't really matter in forecasting races at Talladega and Haley likely has a lot of value since he is a good drafter in general and has earned two top tens in his last three Talladega starts, including a seventh last fall in his second start after returning to Spire Motorsports last year. It's obviously a crapshoot picking which drivers from the back will get good finishes at Talladega, but Haley is a good drafter and he's definitely capable of it in theory. The issue is whether Spire will have more speed than they did last year when they looked slow on this track type. Perhaps Carson Hocevar's second at Atlanta suggests they've turned a corner.
--Sean Wrona - RotoBallerSource: Racing Reference
April 13, 2025
Justin Haley qualified 10th at Bristol alongside his teammate Carson Hocevar, marking his best starting position ever at the track. This shouldn't come as a huge surprise as his Spire Motorsports cars are probably the fastest he has ever had here and Hocevar and Haley's predecessor Corey LaJoie both qualified in the top ten at the Bristol Night Race as well. Haley has improved his position in all three previous Bristol races in which he did not crash, but it's hard to conceive of him not sliding backward from 10th as he very rarely seems to have top ten speed anywhere, even though he did get a top ten at Homestead. It could help that Haley has crew chief Rodney Childers now who won two Bristol races with Kevin Harvick and Childers did lead 25 laps with Josh Berry last year, but it's hard not to see Haley sliding back to mid-pack as usual.
--Sean Wrona - RotoBallerSource: Racing Reference
April 6, 2025
Don't overlook Justin Haley at Darlington Raceway this weekend. The Spire Motorsports driver has a very strong record at the track, with three straight top-10 finishes in the spring events at "The Lady in Black." That includes a ninth-place effort last season when Haley was driving the No. 51 Ford for Rick Ware Racing. This time around, he gets a step up in equipment with his No. 7 Chevrolet for Spire Motorsports. Looking at the practice and qualifying this weekend, Haley posted the fifth-fastest single lap time during practice on Saturday and then ended up 21st-fastest in qualifying. That's also where he started at Homestead a couple of weeks ago before ultimately finishing in 10th-place when it was all said and done. Homestead compares nicely to Darlington, and teams are using the same tire combination this weekend as they did a couple of weeks ago. At $6,200 on DraftKings, Justin Haley is a strong DFS option for his price, especially with such a great track history.
--Jordan McAbeeSource: ifantasyrace
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