Spire Motorsports made it official on Saturday morning with a confirmation that it has indeed hired former Joe Gibbs Racing competition director Chris Gabehart to serve as Chief Motorsports Officer, a role that will oversee multiple disciplines.
The hire, in part, has served as the basis for a lawsuit by JGR against Gabehart, whom the team alleges accessed proprietary information while negotiating with Spire while syncing that data to his personal devices. The lawsuit claims Gabehart accessed this data, including a folder named ‘Spire,’ even on a day in which he met with Spire Motorsports co-owner Jeff Dickerson. It also claims that he took pictures of proprietary data with his personal cell phone and stored on his personal Google Drive.
