Races August 20, 2024 Trackhouse 99 Team Pick Up Momentum On Their Way To Daytona Date: August 18th, 2024 Event: FireKeepers Casino 400 (Round 24 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Michigan International Speedway (2-mile oval) Format: 200 laps, broken into three stages (45 laps/75 laps/80 laps) Start/Finish: 12th / 8th (completed 200 of 200 laps) Point Standing: 16th with 526 points Notes: Trackhouse Racing driver Daniel Suárez finished eighth in Monday’s rain-delayed, 400-mile NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn that ended in double overtime. Suárez raced in 18th before he used new tires and good driving to climb to 12th in the first overtime and eighth in the second overtime. It marked his third consecutive top-10 finish. Suárez led seven of the race’s 206 laps. Suárez started 12th on Sunday after rain on Saturday canceled qualifying. The Mexico native finished 11th in the first stage Sunday before rain stopped action for the day. Racing resumed Monday on lap 52 at 11 a.m. ET. In the closing laps of Stage 2, Suárez pitted during the caution and finished the stage in 16th when a multi-car wreck on the restart ended the stage early. With two races remaining in the regular season, Suárez is 11th in the playoff standings. The Cup Series returns to action Saturday night at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 99 Jockey Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse Racing: “It was an OK day for the No. 99 Jockey Infinite Cool Chevy team. I don’t feel like I did a great job today. For some reason I feel like the car was actually very different from yesterday to today. I struggled a lot on the short runs for a while, but we got it better there at the end. I thought we had decent speed, just not quite good enough. Overall, I think the team did a good job; good calls on tires at the end and we were able to be on offense and it was a decent top-10. I feel like we deserved a top-10 today. I am happy with a top-10, but I don’t feel like I did a good job today.”
