Corey LaJoie Will Drive in the Truck Series in 2025
What’s Happening? Former NASCAR Cup Series regular and current commentator on Amazon Prime Video’s broadcast, Corey LaJoie, will be back behind…
Corey LaJoie recently opened up about his plans for the 2026 season and his “Next Chapter,” saying he is “not entertaining” Truck Series offers but does not want to step away from racing entirely.
As the 2025 NASCAR National Series seasons come to a close, drivers prepare their plans for the coming season. One of these drivers, Corey LaJoie, who, this season, was without a full-time Cup Series ride for the first time since 2019, seems to have made up his mind on the coming season.
After years of prominence as a fan favorite in the NASCAR Cup Series, LaJoie has had an interesting 2025, making four Cup Starts with Rick Ware Racing, working with Prime Video as an analyst, and finishing out the playoffs for Spire Motorsports No. 77 in the Craftsman Truck Series.
During the latest episode of Staking Pennies, the 33-year-old, soon-to-be 34-year-old, laid out his current plans for next season.
In his six Truck Series starts with Spire, LaJoie has impressed, showing speed and scoring two top-fives and four top-ten finishes. But despite this, LaJoie told Staking Pennies co-host Skip Flores he is not planning on returning to the series in 2026.
LaJoie said he intends to stick to the media side of NASCAR while starting a side business, but that, in his opinion, “trucks aren’t particularly fun to drive,” saying he’s tired of “fighting a battle.” What LaJoie seems to be referring to is the decision-making that is out of his hands when racing at a top-tier Truck Series organization like Spire, telling Flores:
“If you’re not doing it yourself, you deal with all the bullshit. . . ‘We can’t do a new body build. Well, we can’t build it this way, because GM this, and simulation that.’ I’m tired of fighting those battles.” — Corey LaJoie
The veteran racer says he would “entertain” a conversation about racing should a “good opportunity call,” but he wants to focus on starting what he is calling “the next chapter.”
“There’s like ten other things that I could be doing right now to start what the next chapter looks like,” LaJoie said. “And I think I’m going to start focusing on that.”
While this sounds like a retirement, this does not mean that LaJoie is opposed to racing next year, and would entertain a start in the Daytona 500, saying that he thinks he could win the Daytona 500 in a “decent car.” However, he remained adamant that he would not race in the Truck Series next season.
“Truck offers, I’m not entertaining,” LaJoie said. “Cup offers, there’s really not any because it’s just what it is, right? You lose your seat, the music stops, and they pluck somebody else that’s cheaper and comparable that can do the same job.”
What’s Happening? Former NASCAR Cup Series regular and current commentator on Amazon Prime Video’s broadcast, Corey LaJoie, will be back behind…
One year and four days ago, Spire Motorsports and Rick Ware Racing announced a ‘trade’ with veteran driver Corey LaJoie heading to RWR and Justin Haley taking over Spire’s No. 7 for the rest of 2024.
Despite a solid performance, RWR, which was downsizing to one car, opted to bring on Cody Ware for the 2025 season. Though he was rumored to have offers to race in the Truck Series this season, LaJoie announced a four-race 2025 Cup Series schedule with RWR on January 27, 2025.
While this was a questionable move at the time, he explained his decision in a now-controversial interview with Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports, during which LaJoie asked himself, “Do you wanna go pump the ego up and hold a trophy on a Friday when there’s 12 people in the grandstands?”
Despite this, LaJoie still found himself racing in the Craftsman Truck Series after Spire Motorsports downsized its Truck Series operation, with LaJoie brought on at Richmond to finish out the final eight races of the season amid a race for the owners’ championship in a renumbered No. 07, now No. 77, truck.
Prior to his first start in the Truck Series with Spire (before the two announced his late season schedule), LaJoie explained the reason for these comments, walking back that comment, and also giving context to what was going on in his life at the time. He also seemed excited to race in the Truck Series, giving fans hope he could race in the series full-time, though his recent comments suggest otherwise.
What’s Happening? Before his return to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series this weekend, Corey LaJoie spoke with the media and addressed…
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