Daniel Suarez Bites His Tongue Despite Trackhouse Owner Justin Marks Backtracking on His SVG Promise

Finally, the curtains have fallen on the road course race at Indianapolis with Front Row Motorsports’ Michael McDowell racking up his first win of the season. Although the race had the Chicago triumphant Shane van Gisbergen returning to the Cup Series schedule, the Kiwi failed to repeat his Grant Park 220 success, finishing 10th.

While the Project 91 driver got a decent finish, his Trackhouse Racing teammate and road racing expert, Daniel Suarez, who went into the Indy road race as a heavy favorite, couldn’t capitalize on his momentum. Could we blame Shane van Gisbergen’s second run in the Cup Series for Suarez’s disappointment? Well, here is a question for Justin Marks to answer.

What was Justin Marks’s promise that was later backtracked?

After a strong start and a valiant effort, Daniel Suarez felt heartbroken, as the #99 Chevy just couldn’t gain traction amid minute slips from the team. What was even more saddening was the idea that his discouraging finish may very well be linked to his boss going back on his promise to the #1 and #99.

After Gisbergen’s heroics in Chicago, it was only natural for the fans and reporters to wonder about the next appearance of SVG through Project 91. When asked about the same, the Trackhouse Racing owner said, “Beyond probably 3 races [in a year], it starts to become a third team.”

“It starts to really kind of drain — not drain, but take resources from the 1 [Ross Chastain] and the 99 [Daniel Suárez] car, which is what we’re really focused on at Trackhouse, getting both of those cars in the championship, being able to make a championship run.”

Admitting that the #91 car takes resources away from #1 and #99, Marks also said that their focus will now be laid on their two permanent drivers. But he obviously took his words back, as fans saw the Project 91 car roar across the track of Indianapolis.

As things stand, Ross Chastain has secured a playoff berth with an impressive win at Nashville. But his teammate, Daniel Suarez, still is in dire straits, struggling to make the playoff cutline. In light of all of this, the Mexican was quite disappointed after this past week’s race. And he let his dissatisfaction known while biting his tongue.

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A major chunk of the fanbase was rooting for SVG to repeat his Chicago run at Indy with the driver in the limelight instead of his full-time teammates. While SVG got a 10th-place finish, Suarez, who was desperately eyeing a win to catapult himself into the playoffs, felt heartbroken as his Chevy struggled to catch the #34 Ford and Elliott’s #9 Chevy.

Speaking to the pit reporter after his race, Suarez first took the result wholeheartedly, saying, “We win and we lose as a team.” He then, very subtly, expressed his disappointment by saying, “The guys brought a very fast race car, I felt that maybe one adjustment behind in the first round with the back of the car but everyone made a little better.”

While he credits his team for setting up a competitive car, he also vented out his frustration, saying, “But I felt like I was always one step behind the #9 and the #34, and then at the end I felt when my car came alive again we had that issue so just little bit of you know heartbreaking but that’s part of the sport you know, all we can do is continue to push, continue to build race car like this.”

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