Following Sunday’s (April 13) Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Daniel Suarez, driver of the No. 99 Chevy Camaro, reacted to a stunning tire debacle. He took to X (previously Twitter) and posted his staff’s view of the incident.
All of it occurred throughout a pit cease within the 500-lap occasion. Legacy Motor Membership driver John Hunter Nemechek occurred to have parked his No. 42 Camry a number of stalls behind Suarez’s pit field on the time.
Proper then, a indifferent tire got here rolling down from Nemechek’s all the way in which to Suarez’s, the place the latter’s staff was busy altering tires for the Trackhouse Racing icon.
Fortunately, each Milan Rudanovic (Fueler) and Seth Gajdorus (Rear Changer) narrowly escaped getting hit by the rogue tire. It bounced off the rear finish of Suarez’s automobile, and his crew continued with their pit cease like nothing had occurred.
Reflecting on the identical, Daniel Suarez wrote,
“After a race like right now’s, this video places every thing into perspective! So glad none of my guys obtained damage by that tire, particularly Seth and Milan.”
Daniel Suarez is presently in his ninth full season within the NASCAR Cup Sequence and fifth driving for Trackhouse Racing. He has delivered one top-five and one top-10 to this point and sits twenty seventh within the driver standings. Suarez completed thirty third on Sunday, bagging 4 factors on the way in which.
Subsequent up for the Monterrey native is the Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Scheduled for April 27, the 500-lap characteristic can be proven stay on FOX from 3 pm ET onwards, with radio updates on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Daniel Suarez lets his feelings fly months forward of NASCAR’s upcoming Mexico leap
2025 will mark NASCAR’s inaugural 12 months of internet hosting a points-paying Cup Sequence race at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico Metropolis. The two.674-mile racetrack is simply an 11-hour drive from Monterrey, Daniel Suarez’s hometown.
The final time NASCAR visited Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez was in 2005, however that was the Xfinity Sequence. Suarez felt ecstatic when he heard that the NASCAR Cup Sequence was going to make a visit to his nation on June 15, 2025.
“Truthfully, it is like actually a dream for me,” Daniel Suarez stated in an interview (quoted by motorsport.com). “As I discussed a short time in the past, since I left my nation in 2011 and clearly went to the U.S. in 2015, I had the chance to race full time within the NASCAR Xfinity Sequence.”
“In that 12 months, I actually dreamed and considered at some point racing within the prime class of NASCAR in my (residence) nation. And to be right here right now is one thing unimaginable,” he added.
As per NASCAR, the well-awaited occasion can be televised on Amazon Prime from 3 pm ET onwards with stay radio updates on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.