Daniel Suarez bemoans his Pocono outing as he finishes dead last after an early race incident involving Bubba Wallace

Trackhouse Racing’s Mexican driver Daniel Suarez had a day to forget at Pocono as an early race incident saw him finishing P36, all the way at the end of the field. He was able to secure just one championship point and was dropped to P18 in the championship table with a 23-point deficit from the cut-off.

With Hendrick Motorsports duo of Alex Bowman and Chase Elliott hot on his tail, it was a big opportunity missed by the No:99 Chevy Camaro ZL1 driver. On lap 36, going into turn one, Suarez was running an inside lane in a three-way battle with Bubba Wallace in the middle and Michael McDowell on the outside.

Bubba Wallace, who was sandwiched between the two, tagged Suarez while taking evasive actions for Joey Lugano’s crash. He was fortunate enough to get away without having a big wreck, and the No:99 was able to fix his car. But the oil started to leak, and he had no option but to retire from the race. The Mexican was beyond disappointed by the early exit at Pocono.

“(I’m) definitely frustrated because I feel like we’re better than this. I’m frustrated also because I feel like guys are wrecking each other, and I’m the one that ended up out of the race without being in their mess. But what are you going to do – sometimes you’re on the good end of it, and sometimes you’re on the bad end of it. Unfortunately, today, I was on the short end of it,” Suarez told the media after the race.

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Daniel Suarez asks the team to level up

Suarez was very critical of his and the team’s performance on Sunday, He pointed out that he is partially responsible for the situation they found themselves in, as if not for a poor start to the race, they wouldn’t have found themselves in the pointless midfield battle earlier in the race. He admitted that Justin Marks’ team deserves to run at least in the top 20s the whole race.

“It’s not great; it’s not ideal. But I have to control what I can control, and I cannot control some of the other guys. Like I said, in my mind, we shouldn’t be racing back there. We had a car capable of running in the top 10, top 15 at least, and we were running in the 20s because we missed the balance of the car in the first stage. We just have to be better,” Suarez said.

Suarez still has the opportunity to make it to the playoff in points, as he will have his best shot at a win in coming road course races at. His teammate Ross Chastain has already secured the playoff spot with a win; hence the whole Trackhouse Team will be backing last year’s Sonoma Cup race winner to visit the victory lane in any of the coming races.

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