Races October 14, 2021 Improves Car’s Handling Throughout Race, Races in Top Five Date: October 10th, 2021 Event: Bank of America Roval 400 (Round 32 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Charlotte Motor Speedway (2.28-mile road course) Format: 109 laps, broken into three stages (25 laps/25 laps/59 laps) Start/Finish: 25th / 13th (running, completed 109 of 109 laps) Point Standing: 25th with 560 points Notes: Daniel Suárez finished 13th on the Roval in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Suárez is 25th in the season standings after 32 of 36 races. Suárez started 25th Sunday and struggled with handling issues at the beginning of the race. The Trackhouse crew made major adjustments to lower the car and the No. 99 began showing speed. After finishing 17th in the first stage he ran in the top five in the second stage. Suárez likely would have scored a top-10, but chose to pit and finished 14th in stage 2. That stop enabled him to start the final stage in seventh. He climbed as high as fourth in the final stage, but cars with newer tires dropped him down the running order. Suárez dodged several accidents in the final laps and finished 13th. The Cup Series will return to action Sunday, Oct. 17 at Texas Motor Speedway. in Fort Worth. NBCSN will televise Sunday’s race at 2 p.m. EDT. Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 99 CommScope Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse Racing: “I think we had more potential than we showed today. We were pretty bad at the beginning but took a big swing to lower the car and got it a lot better. I think we could have even been better if we had more stops to work on the car. We will keep working and getting better.”
