Suárez 10th of 12 Playoff Drivers with One Race Remaining in Second Round

Date: October 6^th, 2024

Event: YellaWood 500 (Round 31 of 36)

Series: NASCAR Cup Series

Location: Talladega Super Speedway (2.66-mile oval)

Format: 188 laps, broken into three stages (60 laps/60 laps/68 laps)

Start/Finish: 31st / 26th (running, completed 194 of 195 laps)

Playoff Standings: 10^th with 3041 points

Notes:

• Trackhouse Racing driver Daniel Suárez finished 26th in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
• A pre-race drive-through penalty and an early spin saw Suárez lose two laps to the leaders by lap 13. Despite a damaged car, he made up one of the laps in the second stage as the crew continued to make repairs during stops.
• A 22-car accident that sent the race to overtime collected Suárez and ended his bid to return to the lead lap. Despite the damage, he was able to finish the race.
• Sunday marked the 13th overtime finish in the 2024 season.
• The Talladega race marked the fifth of 10 playoff races. One race remains in the second round of the playoffs when four of the 12 playoff drivers will be eliminated.
• With his 26th-place finish Sunday, Suárez is 10th of the 12 drivers 20 points behind the eighth and final transfer position.
• Four drivers will be eliminated every three races with the four remaining drivers competing in a winner-take-all Championship race at Phoenix Raceway on Nov. 8.
• The third and final second-round race is Sunday on the Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 99 Tootsies Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse Racing:

“It was a very difficult day for the No. 99 Tootsies Orchid Lounge Chevy team. We put ourselves in a little bit of a hole with the pass-through penalty. We had a plan and I was expecting everyone to be saving fuel, and I was going to be able to block the lanes and stay in the pack. I just made a mistake. I tried to block when they were coming, but they were just coming too fast. That was on me. We put ourselves in a hole, and unfortunately we weren’t able to recover. And then in the last wreck, obviously that finished killing our chances.”