UPDATE: In response, both Gabehart and his legal team issued responses that asked the court to disregard it.
“It is an improper attempt to introduce surveillance photos as evidence outside the briefing schedule. Unable to substantiate its claims, JGR has resorted to stalking Mr. Gabehart at racetracks, then rushing to this Court to spin routine behavior into suggested misconduct. The Court should give this filing no weight.”
As has been the argument all along, Gabehart and his legal team, plus those representing Spire, say that Matt McCall is the competition director at Spire Motorsports so there is no reason for anyone else to perform those duties.
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ORIGINAL POST 4-14-2026: Chris Gabehart attended the NASCAR event over the weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway and Joe Gibbs Racing is adamant that he violated a temporary restraining order in the process.
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Gabehart has continued to attend NASCAR Cup Series races since the ‘TRO’ was issued and has been photographed several times by JGR as that team continues to make a case that the court is being ignored.
This time, Joe Gibbs Racing issued a pair of declarations by Ty Gibbs social media manager David Biro and competition director Wally Brown. Biro submitted photographs of Gabehart in the infield during Cup Series track sessions at Bristol wearing a radio headset (without a microphone) but also standing in a pit road workstation and standing near Cup Series driver Carson Hocevar.
The court order basically only allows Gabehart to participate in senior executive level activities with Spire and only in a competition role for non-Cup or O’Reilly Series divisions that Spire is involved in.
Brown accused Gabehart of doing competition director level activities on Saturday and Sunday for Spire at Bristol.
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