Ryan Sparks
Crew Chief, Spire Motorsports
Coverage (3 articles)
The Coca-Cola 600 Carries the 250th Birthday.
The Cup field rolls into Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday for the Coca-Cola 600, the Memorial Day weekend race, in the year the country marks its 250th birthday. Mission 600 ran for the ninth straight year, five U.S. Armed Forces stops, from Beaufort to a video bridge into Lithuania. Five Coca-Cola 600 drivers said what makes the weekend land.
Spire Motorsports Opens the Mooresville Shop Thursday for Its Fifth Annual Spring Fan Day
Spire Motorsports' fifth-annual Spring Fan Day runs Thursday, May 21, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the team's Mooresville HQ (351 Mazeppa Road). Autograph wristbands for Suárez, McDowell, Hocevar, Kyle Busch, and Mosack distributed first-come-first-served starting 8 a.m. 25% of the day's proceeds benefit the USO. A four-grandstand-tickets raffle for the Coca-Cola 600 also benefits the USO.
From Monterrey to Mach 2.5: Daniel Suárez and Ryan Sparks Spend a Day with the Air Force
Thursday at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, NC, NASCAR Cup driver Daniel Suárez and his first-year Spire Motorsports crew chief Ryan Sparks spent the day with the Air Force, F-15E hangar tour, F-35 and F-22 VR simulators, EOD robot demonstration, and an autograph session with Airmen. Memorial Day weekend's Mission 600 chapter lands one week before the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.