Joe Gibbs Racing suing Chris Gabehart for allegedly stealing info for Spire Motorsports

You may have thought we were done with NASCAR lawsuits for a while, but we’ve got a new and spicy one. Former competition director Chris Gabehart left Joe Gibbs Racing last year under mysterious circumstances, and suddenly JGR has sued him, alleging he stole competitively sensitive information for his future employers in ways that would be shockingly dumb and detectable if true — so much so that it’s hard to believe a guy as sharp as Gabehart could have done such things. He denies everything and says JGR is unwilling to consider forensic proof of a lack of evidence.

Taking things up a notch, Spire Motorsports — a team whose whole thing is taking things up a notch — came out in the wake of this announcement to counter-announce that Gabehart works there now. So in turn, JGR amended their complaint to add Spire to it and requested a restraining order to prevent Gabehart from working there for 18 months until everything is returned and assurances are secured.

I wonder if we’ll ever find out what really happened here.