Races August 16, 2021 Qualified Fifth, Ran up Front Before Late, Multi-car Wreck Date: August 15th, 2021 Event: Verizon 200 at the Brickyard (Round 24 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course (2.439-mile road course) Format: 82 laps, broken into three stages (15 laps/20 laps/47 laps) Start/Finish: 5th / 37th (completed 82 of 82 laps) Point Standing: 24th with 408 points Notes: Daniel Suárez finished 37th on the road course in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Suárez is 24th in the season standings after 24 races. Suárez started a season-best fifth after qualifying Sunday morning. Suárez raced in fifth for most of the first stage before fuel strategy brought him and other leaders to pit lane late in the stage. He repeated that strategy in the second stage, racing in the top-10 before pitting late for fuel Suárez started ninth in the final stage but struggled as the race ran caution-free for 27 laps. Suarez lined up 28th after a caution caused a restart with six laps remaining. As the field raced with five laps to go, the curbing in one of the corners came up causing a massive accident that ended the race for several cars including the No. 99. Suárez was not hurt in the wreck and credited with a 37th-place finish. The NASCAR Cup Series will return to action Sunday, Aug. 22 at Michigan International Speedway. NBCSN will televise Sunday’s race at 3 p.m. EDT. Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 99 CommScope Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse Racing: “Somebody had wrecked the lap before, but I was able to go through fine. The next lap I made sure I was on the right line, but I still hit something right in the middle of the racetrack. It was the curb that came apart and just killed our car and wrecked a lot of others.”
