Races April 4, 2022 Date: April 3rd, 2022 Event: Toyota Owners 400 (Round 7 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Richmond (Va.) Raceway (.75-mile oval) Format: 400 laps, broken into three stages (70 laps/160 laps/170 laps) Start/Finish: 14th / 16th (running, completed 400 of 400 laps) Point Standing: 14th with 171 points Notes: Trackhouse Racing driver Daniel Suárez finished 16th in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond (Va.) Raceway. Suárez is now 14th in the season standings. Suárez started 14th and struggled in the first stage reporting his car was very loose. He stayed on the lead lap finishing 23rd. In Stage 2, several handling adjustments paid off as the No. 99 improved its lap times and finished 18th. In the final stage, Suárez pitted during the fourth caution of the race on lap 247. When the fifth caution flew on lap 258 he stayed on the track and restarted the race in second. Suárez held his own on the slightly older tires staying in the top-10 until he pitted again with 79 laps remaining. He reported his brake issues in the closing laps and fell to 16th. The NASCAR Cup Series returns to action Saturday night at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 99 CommScope Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse Racing: “It was a tough day. I just feel like we missed it the entire weekend. We didn’t have the speed yesterday. We didn’t have the speed in qualifying. Today was a battle. I feel like we were OK in the long runs at times, but overall, we just didn’t have a lot of speed. We just have to go back home and try to learn what we did right, what we did wrong and come back strong.”
