Andrés Pérez de Lara’s 2025 campaign reads like a stubborn underdog script, with flashes of promise, a few mid-season stumbles, and then a clear uptick once circumstances changed. Across the first half of the year, he made 17 Craftsman Truck Series starts for Spire Motorsports in 2025, earning a pair of top 10s, including a season-best seventh-place finish at Martinsville Speedway. By late August, his race log reflected the arc many expected from a young driver still finding his footing, with incremental gains, occasional strong runs, but not the consistent front-running pace that turns heads. But that seems to have changed drastically after he departed from the team.
Spire Motorsports officially permitted Pérez de Lara to explore other opportunities, and Niece Motorsports announced they