Daniel Suarez Has Road Course Speed, but Not Enough to Make Up Deficit
4 mins agoDaniel Suarez enters today's Charlotte roval race 10th in the standings, 20 points behind the playoff cutline. Trackhouse Racing certainly has good road course speed as Ross Chastain easily could have won at Watkins Glen had he not been bitten by caution timing. Although Suarez tends to consistently have speed on road courses as well, he often struggles to get the finishes commensurate with that speed. The Charlotte roval is a good example where he has only had one top 20 in his six races even though he has finished every single race and qualified third in the last two. This time, he only qualified 13th so it's hard to imagine him making up 20 points especially since Chase Elliott and Tyler Reddick are the drivers he is chasing and they are much better on road courses than he is.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference