Mexican driver Daniel Suarez has all the pressure heading to the home race
Bob Boukras
Fox Motorsports Insider
The race in his homeland alone will pressure Daniel Suarez.
Daniel Suarez waved the crowd during introductions before the management of the NASCAR Series of Bummil 400
Enter the NASCAR Cup for the first time in Mexico City sitting 28th in the ranking and without a contract for the next season, it only adds to the pressure on the Trackhouse driver on Sunday in Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
“This is not the first time that I was in this position. Certainly, the first time with the Mexico race, but this is not the first time that I was in a position that we should win or in our position negotiating the contract in the middle [of the season]Suarez said.
“It is definitely distraction. I will not sit here and tell you that it really doesn’t matter. I try to be as smart as possible and put all these things on the side and do something on the path.”
Suarez, 33, who grew up in Monterrey, is the only Mexican -born driver who wins the NASACA national series. He won two cups for the cup, three xFinity races and one truck race. He is the only driver born abroad to win the NASCAR National series, which was the Xfinity series in 2016.
Daniel Suarez walks on the stage wearing the Lucha Libre mask during the spread of the driver before the ALL-Star Series in North WilkeesBoro Speedway
The Xfinity series raced in the Mesico City path, but with a different design from 2005 to 2008. But this will represent the first cup race in Mexico City and the first cup points race outside the United States since 1958 when the cup chain ranked in Toronto. The cup held exhibition races in Japan from 1996 to 1998.
It is clear that Mexican fans have a person who rooted in Suarez, who went to Mexico six times last year to promote the race. He went to the first show of the NASCAR series on Netflix there, and the fans who had been following him since traveled in the Nascar Mexico series appeared from 2010 to 2014.
Suarez believes that those who followed him 15 years ago and those who only see that there is a Mexican driver competing for him.
“There will be new fans, fans who really don’t know me and they only love the race and know that there is a Mexican driver. They will be there with me and there will be these fans who were supporting me throughout my trip,” Suarez said.
For those who followed the profession of Suarez, they saw him pass by ascending and falling into driving for four different teams of the cup. He was in the Trackhouse race since 2021 and signed an extension for one year last year.
The year has so far been disappointing for Suarez, who won the second race of the year in 2024 and advanced to the second round of the qualifiers. The average completion of the twenty -first is three worse sites than last year. The average of 10 of the top 10 years of the year in the past three years has reached a period of seven this year with three in the first 15 races.
Suarez is intended not to allow these conflicts or ask about the place of the race next year destroys the Mexico race experience.
Suarez said: “The Mexico race is something I hoped and that I have been waiting for many years, and I will not leave anything else from the outside that takes that week and that moment on myself.”
“We have to continue to put one foot in front of the other and continue to move forward. I think it is in Trackhouse, we have found some decent speed in the past few weeks, so promising, and we hope that we can continue to move in this direction.”
In the full -time cup season, Suarez 302 has a start in the Job Cup, and if he is not in a new deal with Trackhouse, there may be few opportunities for a similar institution.
Winning can change everything, usually the courses racing in which suardz has shown strength. His first victory in his cup came in the road track in Sonoma, and the following five cup races include road track races in Mexico City, Sonoma and the Chicago Street.
“We just have to implement,” Suarez said. “We have to do small things correctly, and I think we are able to do this … … We win next week, and all these conversations will be out of the window.”
Suarez said he was planning to reach Mexico on Tuesday, June 10. Then, he will do many public manifestations over the next three days. Once the cars reach the track on Friday, it needs to focus on trying to do all small things properly.
“There will be more on my plate [in Mexico] Suarez said: “I must accept it, with what is said, I must protect my area of competition things because if we do not do competitions, everything else does not really matter.
“We have to put a balance on everything. … [So by] On Friday, I can try to focus just as possible on the race. I will still have some things here and there, but for the largest part, it will be the race. “
Suarez will get the Mexican telecom company TelCel.
“For many years, I had no sponsoring deal with a company from Mexico because I was not racing there,” Suarez said. “At the present time, we will make an event there, it opens a completely new world of opportunities and this is great, not only … it is clear to me, but for the entire sport.”
Bob Pockrass Nascar and Indycar cover for Fox SPORTS. He spent contracts for motorsport coverage, including more than 30 Ditona 500, with a difference in ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR SCENE and (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow it on Twitter @Bobukras.
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