Three full-time drivers fail to post Top-10 finish in 2020
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Daniel Suarez, Quin Houff and Timmy Hill all failed to score at least one Top-10 finish across the entire NASCAR Cup Series season.
The three drivers attempted to qualify for all 36 races this season.
Suarez and Houff finished 31st and 33rd respectively in final points. Hill was not eligible for points in the Cup Series.
Suarez, who competed for Gaunt Brothers Racing, failed to qualify for the Daytona 500 in February. His highest finish of the season came was 18th at Bristol Motor Speedway in May.
2020 marked Suarez’s fourth full-time season in NASCAR’s elite series, but the first time he failed to post a Top-10 finish.
Houff, a rookie-of-the-year contender, raced all 36 races for StarCom Racing.
Houff’s highest finish was a lead-lap 13th-place effort at Talladega in October. The finish was also a career-high for the Virginia driver.
Hill’s highest finish came at Talladega in October (15th).
Driving the No. 66 Toyota for team owner Carl Long, 2020 was the first season Hill competed in all 36 races.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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