Races March 27, 2023 Overtime Restart Chaos Ruins Suárez’s COTA Race Following Dominant Performance. Date: March 26th, 2023 Event: EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix (Round 6 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Circuit of The Americas (3.41-mile road course) Format: 68 laps, broken into three stages (15 laps/15 laps/38 laps) Start/Finish: 5th / 27th (running, completed 75 of 75 laps) Point Standing: 14th with 144 points Notes: Trackhouse Racing driver Daniel Suárez finished 27th in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series road course race at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas. The somewhat uneventful race turned wild as accidents plagued the final laps then carried over into three overtimes creating multiple restarts. Sunday’s finish moves Suárez to 14th in the season standings. The next race is 3:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, April 2 at Richmond (Va.) Raceway. Suárez qualified fifth on Saturday and spent most of the race in the top-five. He finished sixth in the first stage and climbed as high as second late in the race. Suárez appeared ready to battle for the lead and victory, but on a restart in the second overtime he was hit going into turn one bringing the No. 99 to a stop. A pit stop for a cut left front tire relegated him to the back of the field. Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 99 Freeway Insurance Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse Racing: “Just extremely disappointed with how today ended. We had a really good Freeway Chevrolet all day long and thought we had a chance to get a great finish, but we just got wrecked. I hate that happened.”
