Spire owner responds to Joe Gibbs Racing lawsuit claims: 'They want to hurt us'

Spire Motorsports co-owner Jeff Dickerson strongly defended his NASCAR team on Thursday from allegations made by rival Joe Gibbs Racing in a federal lawsuit, saying, “Spire has not even begun to fight.”“I don’t want to be in court,” Dickerson said, calling the lawsuit an effort to “diminish” his team. “… They’ve called us a lot of things, and we hear it. If the point is to try to hurt us or try to burn us down? OK. I don’t think they’re gonna beat us; they might win something, but I’ll make sure they wish they hadn’t.”Advertisement