Corey Lajoie

Corey Lajoie

33-Year-Old Driver  
Spire Motorsports
Spire Motorsports
2024 Fantasy Outlook
He signed a multi-year extension with Spire Motorsports last season and will remain in the No. 7 Chevrolet for the foreseeable future. Lajoie returns to a team completely intact that is basically a satellite Hendrick Motorsports operation. The veteran driver's two Top-5 and three Top-10 finishes plus 25th-place finish in the points were all career-high marks last year. The 20.8 average finish was also another career-best. The 32-year-old will look to build on those marks in the upcoming season and improve in areas where he's weak. As for strengths, Lajoie has always impressed in superspeedway competition. Talladega and Daytona yielded two of his three Top 10's last season, and he seems to be continually improving with his road course performance. Read Past Outlooks
Tops Martinsville Practice
NASCAR Cup
April 6, 2024
Lajoie was fastest in Happy Hour practice for the Cook Out 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway Saturday afternoon. He turned a fast lap of 94.585 mph.
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It was an interesting twist to see the superspeedway expert lead this lone practice session on the Martinsville short track. Lajoie edged Bubba Wallace to top the scoring pylon ahead of Saturday's pole qualifying session for the Cook Out 400. The Spire Motorsports veteran is seeking his second Top 10 of the season Sunday at Martinsville Speedway.
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
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The six-season veteran will return to the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet in 2023. Lajoie grabbed one Top-10 finish in all of last season and posted a 24.3 average finish, which was a career-best mark. As per recent history, the intermediate and larger ovals were his best tracks on the circuit. Lajoie will look to reduce the number of DNF's (8) and hope to find better week-to-week consistency in 2023. Most of the team, including crew chief Ryan Sparks, returns to help Lajoie to this end. Spire Motorsports will continue to get technical and engine support from Hendrick Motorsports, so fast cars will hopefully continue to roll out of their garage each week. Lajoie showed some improvement on the short tracks and road courses over the last half of last season, and hopefully that's a trend that continues into the upcoming season.
Lajoie is expected to return to Spire Motorsports for another season in NASCAR's top division. The 30-year-old veteran is now up to 164 Cup Series starts and has quite a bit of experience at this point in his career. Lajoie peddled to just one Top 10 in 2021, but finished a career-best 29th-place in the points with a career-best 24.9 average finish. All expected marks for a small, underfunded race team. Spire returns the No. 7 Chevrolet squad fully intact with the same faces and crew chief Ryan Sparks. Lajoie will try to build on the good things they did, and emphasize those going into the 2022 campaign with the new race car. The return of practice and qualifying will help in that regard. Still, due to team size/sponsorship, Lajoie has a low ceiling and small potential to take a big leap from here.
Lajoie is one of a handful of off-season movers climbing into new race cars this season. He left Go FAS Racing at the conclusion of last season and brought his crew chief, Ryan Sparks, with him to Spire Motorsports. Lajoie will pilot the team's No. 7 Chevrolet and look to build this small race team's performance. Last season saw a host of different driver's in this cockpit and with it a general lack of performance and consistency. The driver conglomerate could only manage two Top-25 finishes. Lajoie brings four full seasons of Cup Series experience to the table and three-career Top-10 finishes. The 29-year-old driver's strength is superspeedway and intermediate oval racing. Those events will be his best starts, while short tracks and road courses are his definite weakness. Those are facts to keep handy when considering weekly lineup formats.
The 28-year-old is returning for season two at Go FAS Racing. Lajoie had a career-best Cup Series campaign in 2019 and grabbed his first two Top-10 finishes. They were both superspeedway events, but great accomplishments none-the-less. Lajoie also posted career-best marks in terms of average start and average finish, so last season was a good effort for this small race team. Randy Cox has departed the crew chief role, so Lajoie will have a new crew chief in 2020. At the time of this writing it has not been announced who will be taking over that very important role. Now approaching 100-career Cup Series starts, this driver is beginning to sort some things out. Depending on who GFR brings in to crew chief for Lajoie that will largely dictate any potential growth and improvement in the upcoming season.
Lajoie is joining Go FAS Racing for the 2019 season and taking over the No. 32 Ford. Sponsorship is coming up just a bit short (10 races), but it's a better situation than it has been in recent seasons. Lajoie comes over from the No. 72 team of TriStar last season. He made 23 starts for that team last season in what was a real mixed bag of performance. Lajoie would net just three Top-25 finishes for that small race team against seven DNF's. The move to GFR is a definite improvement, and a more stable situation for Lajoie. It's easily his best team situation since starting his Cup Series career in 2014. Randy Cox returns to the team as crew chief and will be a good leader and mentor for Lajoie in this transition.
Lajoie's fortunes will ride with what happens with BK Racing in 2018. He made 32 combined starts for this team's two cars last season. In his time bouncing back-and-forth between the No. 23 and No. 83 Toyotas Lajoie earned just four Top-25 finishes. He did have an impressive 11th-place showing in the summer Daytona race, but little else made impact. If BK Racing can get one or both teams back in action in the upcoming season, Lajoie should figure into the picture in some way. - February Update - Lajoie has signed with TriStar Motorsports to race most of the schedule in combination with Cole Whitt in the No. 72 Chevrolet.
Signed to drive part-time for BK Racing in their No. 83 Toyota Camry. It will be only a 14-start schedule for this second generation driver. He will share this team with Gray Gaulding and an array of other drivers. Due to Lajoie’s lack of experience in the Cup cars and his very limited schedule this season, his impact in fantasy racing is expected to be near zero.
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Poor Finish at Richmond
NASCAR Cup
April 1, 2024
Lajoie struggled and finished 36th the Toyota Owners 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway Sunday night.
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Top-5 Daytona 500 FInish
NASCAR Cup
February 19, 2024
Lajoie finished fourth in the Daytona 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway on Monday evening.
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Fifth-Place at Talladega
NASCAR Cup
October 1, 2023
Lajoie finished fifth in the YellaWood 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway Sunday afternoon.
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Signs Extension
NASCAR Cup
August 3, 2023
LaJoie signed a multiyear extension to remain with Spire Motorsports for "several" years in the NASCAR Cup Series, he confirmed Wednesday on his podcast.
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Driving for Hendrick at Gateway
NASCAR Cup
May 30, 2023
Lajoie will drive the No. 9 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports in Sunday's Cup Series race at World Wide Technology Raceway after Chase Elliott was suspended for one race, Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports reports.
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