Daniel Suárez

Daniel Alejandro Suárez Garza (born January 7, 1992) is a Mexican-American professional stock car racing driver.

In 2008, he moved to the preliminary category of NASCAR Mexico, Mini-Stocks, where he became the youngest driver to win a race in the series.

[2] In 2011, Suárez participated in the Toyota All-Star Showdown at Irwindale Speedway, finishing in 11th, the highest-finishing Mexican driver in the event.

In Mexico, he led the points for most of the season and entered the final race of the year in contention for the championship, but wound up finishing third, having scored two victories.

Suárez competed for the full season in the K&N Pro Series East in 2013, driving a Toyota for Rev Racing.

He scored his first victory in the series at Columbus Motor Speedway,[2] also recorded six top-5 and nine top-ten finishes on his way to third in the championship standings.

[4] In April, he was selected by Joe Gibbs Racing to make his debut in the Nationwide Series at Richmond International Raceway, driving the team's No.

18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing and that he would also run a partial schedule in the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in the No.

Suárez went on to win the 2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series rookie of the year title edging Darrell Wallace Jr. for the award by one single top ten finish in statistics.

[14] In May, Suárez won the final stage of the Monster Energy Open, which allowed him to advance into the All-Star Race.

During a publicity event with the help of NBC Sports at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in July, he gave out free Dunkin Donuts to fans camping in the infield and the surrounding areas of the track.

[20] After the announcement, Camping World owner Marcus Lemonis tweeted his intention to sponsor Suárez, which took place at Talladega's Alabama 500.

During the 2018 season, Suárez won his first career Cup Series pole at Pocono, after Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch's qualifying times were disallowed following an inspection.

[24] On September 21, 2018, it was reported that Suárez removed all references to Joe Gibbs Racing from his Twitter profile, hinting that he would be out of the team by the end of the 2018 season.

[28] During qualifying for the 2019 TicketGuardian 500 at Phoenix, Suárez had an on-track incident with Michael McDowell, which resulted in a fight on pit road.

[29] Despite showing signs of improvement in performance, Suárez failed to make the 2019 playoffs after finishing 11th after an on-track incident with Matt Tifft that caused a caution at Indianapolis.

During the 2021 season, Suárez scored Trackhouse's first top five with a fourth place finish at the Bristol dirt race.

Suárez returned to Trackhouse for the 2022 season after the team acquired multiple charters from Chip Ganassi Racing.

On March 29, he was fined US$50,000 for intentionally bumping Alex Bowman on pit road following the conclusion of the COTA race.

On February 3, 2024, Suárez won the NASCAR Mexico Series race that took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

[46] On February 25, 2024, Suárez achieved his second NASCAR Cup Series win when he finished first in the Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

[51] On June 18, 2024, Suárez officially became a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States after completing the Oath of Allegiance.

On the October 14, 2022 episode of Today, Suárez participated in an interview with Tom Llamas about his first NASCAR Cup Series victory.

* Season still in progress 1 Ineligible for series points (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.

Suárez (right) at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2015
Suárez after winning the 2016 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship
Suárez's No. 19 car at Richmond Raceway in 2017
Suárez's No. 41 car at Daytona International Speedway in 2019
Suárez's No. 96 car at Dover International Speedway in 2020
Suárez's No. 99 car at Sonoma Raceway in 2021
Suárez winning the 2022 Toyota/Save Mart 350
Suárez during driver introductions at the 2024 Daytona 500 .