Races August 20, 2026 No. 7 UHP Chevrolet Battles a Tough Day in Virginia. Date: August 15th, 2026 Event: Cook Out 400 (Round 24 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Richmond (Va.) Raceway (1.75-mile oval) Format: 400 laps, broken into three stages (70 laps/160 laps/170 laps) Start/Finish: 20th /16th (running, completed 399 of 400 laps) Point Standing: 13th with 618 points Notes: Daniel Suárez was the highest-finishing Spire Motorsports driver with a 16th-place result in Saturday night’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond (Va.) Raceway. Suárez sit 13th, respectively in the championship point standings with two races remaining before The Chase field is set. Suárez lined up 20th in the No. 7 UHP Chevrolet for the start of Saturday’s event. He maintained his position inside the top 20 throughout the 400-lap race while battling a mixed bag of balance. After falling two laps down to the leaders following the final green-flag pit cycle, Suárez recovered to a 16th-place finish, one lap down, earning his 19th top-20 finish in 23 races this season. The NASCAR Cup Series next travels to New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday, August 23. The Dollar Tree 301 will be broadcast live on USA beginning at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The 25th of 36 points-paying races on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule will be broadcast live on the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90. Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 7 UHP Chevrolet Camaro for Spire Motorsports: “We started a bit behind after qualifying and had to fight for track position all race. The UHP Chevrolet was better on the short run, but we fought some handling issues as the runs went on, which made it difficult to keep moving forward. We got two laps down late in the race, but we kept working and were able to recover one of them. We executed the best we could and never stopped fighting.”
