Trackhouse Racing back on track with two top-10s at Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — Trackhouse Racing was the only organization to have multiple cars finish inside the top-5 in Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
For the fourth time in team history, Trackhouse Racing had multiple cars finish inside the top-5. The last time it happened was the February 2023 race at Auto Club Speedway when Ross Chastain finished third and Daniel Suarez finished fourth.
Unlike the Auto Club Speedway race and other races where multiple Trackhouse cars finished inside the top-5, Suarez led the way instead of Chastain.
Suarez finished second after a fierce battle for the win with Josh Berry. He led four times for 12 laps and placed seventh in stage two but came up 1.358 seconds short of his third career NASCAR Cup Series win.
“It’s something to build on. Our mile-and-a-half program is extremely important and we showed our package is pretty good so we have to build on that,” Suarez said.
Teammate Ross Chastain looked to be on Suarez’s heels late in the race, sitting Chastain was third and ready to pounce if Suarez and Berry got together.
Then, along came William Byron who charged toward Chastain. Chastain tried to hang on but Ryan Preece passed them both before Byron got by.
Still, Chastain felt happy about Trackhouse’s performance.
“It’s cool and a lot better feeling to see the lead and watch the 99 fight for it, both of us. The 99 was the best Trackhouse car by far. That’s what we need, we need our cars running well. To see Squid and the 99 team run well, I was so happy to see them run better because I want them to run good. It helps us,” Chastain said.
Sunday was the first time multiple Trackhouse cars have finished inside of the top-5 at Las Vegas. Here is every instances of multiple Trackhouse cars finishing in the top-5 in a NASCAR Cup Series race:
- Las Vegas Motor Speedway, March 2025
- Daniel Suarez, second
- Led 12 of 267 laps
- Ross Chastain, fifth
- Led 14 laps
- Daniel Suarez, second
- Auto Club Speedway, February 2023
- Ross Chastain, third
- Led 91 of 200 laps
- Daniel Suarez, fourth
- Ross Chastain, third
- Road America, July 2022
- Ross Chastain, fourth
- Daniel Suarez, fifth
- Atlanta Motor Speedway, March 2022
- Ross Chastain, second
- Led 42 of 325 laps
- Daniel Suarez, fourth
- Led 13 laps
- Ross Chastain, second
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
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