Races March 19, 2025 Trackhouse Driver Finishes Runner Up in Fifth Race of the Season Date: March 16th, 2025 Event: Pennzoil 400 Presented by Jiffy Lube (Round 5 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Las Vegas Motor Speedway (1.5-mile oval) Format: 267 laps, broken into three stages (80 laps/85 laps/102 laps) Start/Finish: 23rd / 2nd (completed 267 of 267 laps) Point Standing: 19th with 94 points Notes: Trackhouse Racing’s Daniel Suárez finished second in Sunday’s 400-mile NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Cautions in the final stage made pit strategy the key to success on Sunday. The No. 99 pit crew returned Suárez to a front-row starting position for the restart with 20 laps remaining. He battled side-by-side with race winner Josh Berry for a handful of laps before finishing in the runner-up position. Suárez led four times for 12 laps. Suárez qualified 23rd on Saturday. On Sunday, all three Trackhouse Chevrolets were fast in the opening stage despite an untimely caution in the middle of the pit stop cycle, which dropped them down in the running order. Suárez finished 14th. In the second stage, Suárez ran in the top five most of the stage before taking four tires at the end and finishing seventh. The NASCAR Cup Series returns to action Sunday at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway. Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 99 Freeway Insurance Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse Racing: “Definitely a little disappointed, but first of all, congratulations to Josh Berry and the No. 21 team. They did a great job and they’ve been fast. The No. 99 Freeway Insurance Chevy team did everything right. The pit crew did an amazing job with the pit stops. We did everything right with the strategy. Our Chevy was fast, but we just struggled a little bit on the short runs. I mentioned to my crew chief – before the last run, I told him that if we’re going to be up front, we’re going to need a better car for the short run. I was having too much contact over there in (turns) one and two. Unfortunately, I think that’s why we lost the race. We just had a little bit too much contact. I almost wrecked in one and two. But overall, just very, very proud of everyone at Trackhouse Racing. The entire organization has been working very hard and it’s showing. Thank you to Chevrolet, Freeway Insurance, Coca-Cola, Quaker State – all of our partners that help us to get to the track every weekend. It was a solid effort.”
