In a season the place he returned to Victory Lane within the NASCAR Cup Collection and acquired married throughout a two-week summer season break interval, Daniel Suarez has another excuse to have fun afer inking a contract extension to proceed to drive the No. 99 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 entry for Trackhouse Racing in 2025.
The information comes because the 2016 Xfinity Collection champion from Monterrey, Mexico, is at present campaigning in his eighth full-time marketing campaign in NASCAR’s premier sequence and fourth with Trackhouse, a workforce that debuted within the Cup Collection degree in 2021 with Suarez.
By means of 22-scheduled occasions of the 2024 season, Suarez notched a victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway in February, the place he edged Ryan Blaney and Kyle Busch in a three-wide photograph end whereas beating Blaney by 0.003 seconds, to notch his second Cup profession victory and snapped a 57-race winless drought. To go together with two top-five outcomes and 4 top-10 outcomes, he’s ranked in seventeenth place within the 2024 regular-season standings, however is assured a spot into the 2024 Cup Collection Playoffs based mostly on his Atlanta victory.
Along with Suarez, Freeway Insurance coverage, which first sponsored the Mexican at Texas Motor Speedway in October 2021, will return to sponsor the No. 99 Chevrolet for one-third of the 2025 Cup occasions, together with the 67th working of the Daytona 500 and the All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
“Trackhouse is dwelling to me and I’ve loved each minute I’ve been right here,” Suarez mentioned. “We plan to maintain working, rising and profitable extra races. We will solely do this with the assist of my Amigos and Amigas at Freeway Insurance coverage. They’ve backed me for the final a number of years and we now have grown shut with their prospects and workers.”
Suarez made his inaugural presence as a NASCAR Cup Collection competitor at the beginning of the 2017 season, the place he was elevated to pilot the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota entry following the departure of veteran Carl Edwards. By then, Suarez was additionally coming off the 2016 Xfinity Collection championship. He would spend two full-time seasons (2017-18) at Joe Gibbs Racing earlier than he drove for Stewart-Haas Racing and Gaunt Brothers Racing for the next two seasons (2019-20).
In 2021, Suarez joined Trackhouse, the place he ended up in twenty fifth place within the last standings on the strenght of a single top-five consequence and 4 top-10 outcomes. The next season, he had a breakout season, the place he notched his first Cup profession victory at Sonoma Raceway. The victory, which occurred in his ninety fifth profession begin, made Suarez the primary Mexican competitor to win in NASCAR’s premier sequence and it additionally assured him and his No. 99 workforce into the Playoffs for the primary time ever. Regardless of being eradicated from title competition following the Spherical of 12, Suarez settled in tenth place within the last standings. By then, he had notched career-high stats in prime fives (six), prime 10s (13) and laps led (280). He would then find yourself in nineteenth place within the 2023 standings after lacking the Playoffs regardless of recording a complete of 10 top-10 outcomes.
By means of 273 earlier begins within the Cup Collection, Suarez has recorded two victories, three poles, 20 top-five outcomes, 63 top-10 outcomes, 706 laps led and an average-finishing results of 18.9 as he continues his pursuit to win his first Cup championship.
“Everybody at Trackhouse Racing is happy to proceed the connection with Daniel and Freeway Insurance coverage,” Justin Marks, workforce proprietor of Trackhouse Racing, mentioned. “Daniel has been important to this workforce and its tradition because the first day. Freeway joined that very same 12 months and we now have all continued to develop collectively and can proceed into 2025.”
“We worth our partnership with Trackhouse and Daniel Suárez who has change into a robust ambassador of our Freeway model and an influential voice in our personal range, fairness and inclusion efforts. Daniel’s story evokes us and deeply connects to the every day lives and targets of our Hispanic prospects,” Cesar Soriano, Chief Government Officer of Freeway Insurance coverage, added. “1000’s of race followers have met Daniel at Freeway Insurance coverage shops throughout the nation, and we would like him to fulfill and share his story with much more in 2025. He has been a part of our nationwide promoting initiatives and has launched new prospects to Freeway. We need to proceed with that effort and scale our presence in NASCAR so while you see the No. 99 racing by you instantly consider Freeway Insurance coverage.”
Together with his plans for subsequent season set, Daniel Suarez’s 2024 NASCAR Cup Collection season resumes this upcoming Sunday, August 11, at Richmond Raceway for the Prepare dinner Out 400, the place the occasion’s broadcast time is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. ET on USA Community.
