Races August 9, 2026 Freeway Insurance Chevy Qualifies P2, Gets Unlucky with Untimely Cautions. Date: July 26th, 2026 Event: Brickyard 400 Presented by PPG (Round 22 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2.439-mile oval) Format: 160 laps, broken into three stages (50 laps/50 laps/60 laps) Start/Finish: 2nd / 17th (Running, completed 160 of 160 laps) Point Standing: 11th with 583 points Notes: Spire Motorsports driver Daniel Suárez secured a top-20 result with his 17th place finish in Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). Suárez is 11th in the driver championship point standings. Suárez earned a venue-best starting position of second in the No. 7 Freeway Insurance Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 to join Carson Hocevar on the front row, missing the pole by just 0.056 seconds. The Monterrey, Mexico native finished seventh in Stage 1 and 10th in Stage 2, before ultimately finishing 17th following a 34-lap green-flag run to end the race, preventing the No. 7 team from improving their track position. The NASCAR Cup Series is off next weekend before returning to action at Iowa Speedway on Sunday, August 9. The Iowa 350 powered by Ethanol will be broadcast live on USA beginning at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The 23rd of 36 points-paying races on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule will be broadcast live on the Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90. Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 7 Freeway Insurance Chevrolet Camaro for Spire Motorsports: “We started off strong in our Freeway Insurance Chevrolet today, but we struggled to make the passes we needed once we got caught in traffic. We kept losing spots and needed better track position to really show what we had. The team worked hard all day and made adjustments to improve our Chevrolet, but the cautions didn’t go our way at the end. We’ll take what we learned today and keep pushing forward.”
