Races October 19, 2021 Freeway Insurance Driver Battles with Leaders in Final Stage Date: October 17th, 2021 Event: Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 (Round 33 of 36) Series: NASCAR Cup Series Location: Texas Motor Speedway (1.5-mile oval) Format: 334 laps, broken into three stages (105 laps/105 laps/124 laps) Start/Finish: 19th / 10th (running, completed 334 of 334 laps) Point Standing: 25th Notes: Daniel Suárez finished 10th in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. Suárez is 25th in the season standings after 33 of 36 races. Suárez started 19th Sunday and narrowly dodged a 15-car accident on lap 31 after a restart. Suárez finished Stage 1 in 15th and Stage 2 in 14th. The No. 99 began climbing up the scoring monitor in the final stage moving as high as seventh with less than 50 laps to go. Suárez battled with the leaders in the closing laps dropping as far back as 14th before finishing 10th in a two-lap shootout. It was the fourth top-10 of the 2021 season for the No. 99 Trackhouse team. It marked Suárez’s third top-10 finish at Texas. Sunday was Freeway Insurance’s first primary race with Trackhouse Racing. The Cup Series will return to action Sunday, Oct. 24 at Kansas Speedway. NBCSN will televise Sunday’s race at 2 p.m. EDT. Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 99 Freeway Insurance Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse Racing: “Our car took a few laps to get going, but once it did we were pretty good. We just struggled in traffic more than everyone else it seemed. But we are getting better and continuing to improve. It was a good weekend. We met a lot of Freeway customers on Saturday and hosted a lot of employees and friends on Sunday at the track.”
