Races May 17, 2021 Date: May 16th, 2021 Event: Drydene 400 (Round 13 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Dover International Speedway (1-mile oval) Format: 400 laps, broken into three stages (120 laps/120 laps/160 laps) Start/Finish: 24th / 9th (running, completed 400 of 400 laps) Point Standing: 22nd with 242 points Notes: Daniel Suárez finished ninth in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. The finish moved Suárez to 22nd in the season standings after 13 races. Suárez started 24th made a methodical march to the front using good driving and quick pit stops by the Trackhouse pit crew to finish 17th in Stage 1 and 14th and Stage 2. Suárez stayed on the track during a caution with 82 laps to go and moved to seventh. Despite racing on older tires than most behind him, Suárez hung on in the closing laps and finished ninth. It was the team’s second-best finish of the season and marked the second top-11 in the last three races. Sunday’s result also continues Suárez’s success at Dover. He has five top-10 finishes in nine races on the concrete mile oval. The NASCAR Cup Series return to action Sunday May 23 at Circuit of the Americas. FS1 will broadcast the race at 2:30 p.m. EDT. Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 99 CommScope Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse Racing: “The No. 99 CommScope Chevy Camaro was strong. Most of the race I felt like the entire race we were probably a top-15 car. But, with good adjustments we gained some track position and that gave us the opportunity to finish in the top-10. There is still a lot of work to do, definitely. Right there at the end, I was tight. I was against the No. 11 (Denny Hamlin), the No. 41 (Cole Custer) and all these guys, but we were able to hold them off and get a decent finish. But we have to keep working and win a trophy.”
