Each Austin Cindric and Daniel Suarez could also be locked into the 2024 NASCAR Cup Collection playoffs by advantage of wins earlier within the season, however their efficiency over the course of the 12 months hasn’t been playoff-worthy.
Suarez and Cindric sit seventeenth and nineteenth in regular-season factors, respectively, however top-10 runs for each drivers within the Brickyard 400 on July 21 might be the turning factors for each of their seasons.
Cindric’s seventh-place end at Indianapolis was his first top-10 effort since his win in St. Louis on June 2, whereas Suarez’s eighth-place end was his greatest end since a ninth-place run at Iowa on June 16.
Neither driver has had the season they needed — or might essentially afford to have — via the primary 22 races, however the top-10 runs in considered one of NASCAR’s crown jewel races must be the shot within the arm that spurs a playoff run.
Each drivers are driving their respective group’s flagship vehicles, and with that duty comes a stress distinctive to racing. Cindric has been thrust into the identical automobile pushed by champions Brad Keselowski, Kurt Busch and Rusty Wallace. Whereas Suarez’s workforce, Trackhouse Racing, is just in its fourth Cup Collection season, it was Suarez and his No. 99 automobile that set the workforce off on their maiden voyage.
Suarez and Cindric are each related, at the very least when the stat sheet is concerned. Each drivers are Xfinity Collection champions, and each drivers have two Cup Collection victories on the time of writing, considered one of which for every driver got here at a superspeedway.
Each Cindric and Suarez possible perceive the state of affairs they’re in — a playoff run of some type is probably going wanted for them to remain within the good graces of their organizations.
