Corey LaJoie’s Racing Expertise Questioned by NASCAR Followers Amid “Stacking Spinnies” Allegations

When Corey LaJoie completed P4 on the Daytona season opener, many followers believed 2024 would lastly sign the #7 driver’s breakthrough 12 months. But, every race weekend ends in fairly the opposite narrative for LaJoie. And New Hampshire was no completely different in any respect.

At 32, Spire Motorsports’ ‘senior statesman’ has made fairly the title for himself in his tenth 12 months maneuvering the difficulties of NASCAR’s premier sequence. However is his notoriety solely evident resulting from an off-track podcast and never his on-track antics within the #7 Chevy? After a day to overlook at Loudon, the followers are tearing down on that sentiment method worse than the two-hour rain delay on Sunday.

Corey LaJoie caught in mediocrity regardless of Daytona 500 promise

Midway by, this season actually hasn’t been a breakthrough for Corey LaJoie, as a substitute, it has been a nightmare. Presently sandwiched at twenty ninth between Ryan Preece and Justin Haley within the factors desk, it’s secure to say LaJoie is not going to be making the playoffs until he manages to tug out a win (what could be his first-ever) within the subsequent 8 races of the common season. 

From an anticipating perspective, that appears unlikely. Particularly contemplating Corey’s efficiency, tools or some would even name it luck, simply has not favored his advances in latest regard. Aside from the promising prime 5 on the Daytona 500, LaJoie’s most memorable spotlight this season has been crossing the end line at Talladega sideways in P18 after a last-lap “big one.” 

However that is only one recorded occasion of the North Carolina native’s 2024 misfortunes. A better take a look at his outcomes this season will reveal that he has registered a solitary DNF thus far, again in March at Phoenix. Nonetheless, his greatest end since then has been a P11 on the Sonoma highway race earlier this month. He’s at the moment averaging a 23.33 ending place throughout the primary eighteen races of the season. Paradoxically, LaJoie’s begins haven’t been all that higher both, boasting a meager 23.5 common. He could have rolled off the grid three spots beneath in P26 for the USA Right now 301 however maintained his 2024 averages by ending P23 when all of the rain had dried up in New Hampshire. 

The larger story surrounding the #7 crew, then again? Three completely different incidents on two completely different observe situations. First, LaJoie spun on the backstretch to deliver out the sixth warning of the race earlier than rains and a twister warning threatened a crimson flag over NASCAR’s annual return to New Hampshire. Then LaJoie mysteriously spun once more beneath the identical warning that ended fellow troubled Camaro driver, Kyle Busch’s day after crashing into the surface wall on flip 2.

Lastly, the #7 Spire automotive introduced out the tenth yellow of the race after an incident on the identical flip with 45 laps to go. Nonetheless, none of those incidents could be intense sufficient to remove his contender spirit, as he completed his race bent however not damaged with one other top-25 end.  Because it all unfolds for Corey LaJoie, he’s the one present lively driver with no race win in any of the High-3 Nationwide Touring Collection.

Even his teammates, 21-year-old Carson Hocevar and Trackhouse loanee Zane Smith, have both Xfinity or Truck Collection wins credited to their names. This sheds fairly a damaging gentle on LaJoie’s place within the third Spire Motorsports automotive. And the followers are usually not precisely throwing graces or prayers towards a multi-venture driver solely staking his declare as but, one other second-generation NASCAR driver pursuing full-time glory.

Podcast star/NASCAR dud?

Corey Lajoie’s father, Randy is a former two-time, consecutive Busch Collection champion. The 62-year-old has additionally been named one of many 75 Best NASCAR Drivers. When Randy LaJoie received his first-ever second-tier championship, he was nicely in his mid-to-late thirties, and in distinction, Corey has all however a couple of years to match as much as his father’s spectacular accolades. A minimum of, he has surpassed his father as a Twenty first-century podcast host on Stacking Pennies, proper? Seems just like the followers closely disagree.

On the latest New Hampshire race thread gracing the NASCAR subreddit, followers weren’t holding again from voicing their opinions in opposition to Corey LaJoie, with one even going so far as to state, “Lajoie doesn’t deserve a job or podcast. Stacking Excuses!!!” One other piled on the damage by referring to the “Stacking Pennies” podcast and parodically terming LaJoie’s total efficiency at Loudon:  “Stacking spinnies.” Others opined that “Lajoie could take some notes from KFB,” the opposite Chevy driver who additionally couldn’t catch a break on Sunday, and suffered three incidents. 

Many distasteful feedback emerged like “Corey ran out of what little talent he had” to some straight-up demanding that Corey “Go home” after his show in The Granite State. Though the hate practice is working full pace in the direction of the Corey LaJoie parade in 2024,  it’s only so as a result of the followers have come to count on the subsequent massive wreck to sometimes contain the #7 automotive on the finish of most replays. As a rule followers are left saying: “Oh, it’s Corey again,” when the mud settles on that subsequent massive warning. Can he show his haters improper like he ought to earlier than the playoffs transition these damaging narratives over to the subsequent season? Tell us your views beneath!