In 2023, Live Fast Motorsports stunned the NASCAR world with a surprising call. Co-owner B. J. McLeod sold the team’s Cup Series charter to Spire Motorsports for nearly $40 million. At the time, many saw the deal as an admission of defeat for one of NASCAR’s smallest operations. It was a way to step back from the relentless costs of running full-time. McLeod himself admitted later that he expected the move to allow him to “have fun driving and help some drivers along the way” rather than compete at the front. What followed in 2025, however, defied every expectation surrounding the team’s trajectory, including McLeod himself.

Over the years, Live Fast had managed only two standout results. A ninth-place finish at Daytona in 2021 and a seventh at the same track in 2022. Both these came in

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