Patrick Emerling, a nine-time NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour race winner, will race a second stint with Spire Motorsports in 2025, this time behind the wheel of the team’s No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado for the Sept. 20 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Team EJP 175 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
SciAps, an industry leader in handheld elemental analyzers, will serve as Emerling’s primary sponsor for the division’s annual visit to the “Magic Mile.” Black Rhino Trailers and GOAT Power Bikes will be featured as associate sponsors aboard Emerling’s Spire Motorsports-prepared machine.
SciAps is headquartered in Boston and makes portable instruments that can measure any element, anywhere on the planet. SciAps X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and laser-based (LIBS) analyzers are utilized in the oil and gas, mining, aerospace, batteries, recycling, chemicals, military, forensics and law enforcement industries. Designed to examine a multitude of materials, SciAps instruments are in high demand, spanning space research and pandemic coatings to agriculture and environmental testing.
“We’re thrilled to be the primary partner for Spire Motorsports and the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.” said Don Sackett, co-founder of SciAps. “Partnering with Patrick Emerling for his second race with Spire makes this event even more exciting. We can’t wait to see the SciAps colors take to the track in front of our home crowd.”
Emerling, an Orchard Park, N.Y., native, made his debut with Spire Motorsports in June at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway, driving the No. 07 Chevrolet Silverado to a CRAFTSMAN Truck Series career-best 15th-place finish. In nine Whelen Modified Tour starts at the famed one-mile oval, the 32-year-old veteran racer has collected nine top-five and 12 top-10 finishes, including a win in the 2019 Whelen Engineering All-Star Shootout.
In addition to his impressive open-wheel resume, Emerling has made four NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at NHMS and calls a 2023 14th-place finish a series/venue best. He finished 23rd in his lone CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start at the Loudon, N.H., venue in 2017.
“I’m thrilled to be back with Spire Motorsports in the No. 7 truck at New Hampshire Motor Speedway,” said Emerling. “We had a really strong run at Pocono, and I expect to build on that. New Hampshire has always been a good track for me. I’ll be doing double-duty in the Whelen Modified Tour earlier that day, so that will give me a good opportunity to figure out the track. I’m proud to have SciAps join us for the race. I’ve known Don Sackett for several years, and he’s always been a strong supporter of mine.”
Emerling is also a veteran of 59 Xfinity Series starts and competes part-time with SS Green Light Racing on NASCAR’s junior circuit.
The Team EJP 175 from New Hampshire Motor Speedway will be televised live on FS1 Saturday, Sept. 20, beginning at noon Eastern Daylight Time. The race will also be broadcast live on the NASCAR Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, Channel 90.
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