After being dropped by Trackhouse Racing, veteran NASCAR driver Daniel Suarez signed a one-year deal with Spire Motorsports this offseason with his Cup Series career on the line. A career-best season may have changed everything.<\/p>\n
On Monday\u2019s episode of The Teardown<\/a>, motorsports reporter Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic<\/a> said that Suarez will be back with Spire Motorsports in 2027.<\/p>\n \u201cSuarez is not going anywhere. They like him, they really value what he\u2019s bringing to the team.<\/p>\n Jordan Bianchi on Daniel Suarez<\/p>\n Less than a year ago, Trackhouse announced it wouldn\u2019t be retaining Suarez. He finished the season with an average finishing position of 20.89 and an average starting position of 23.53, recording a pair of top-five finishes.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Fast forward to 2026, he\u2019s found a home at Spire. Through 13 races, Suarez has already matched last season\u2019s total for top-fives (two); he boasts career-bests in average finishing position (13.92) and average starting position (13.00), and he currently ranks 10th in points.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Trackhouse has been a relative disappointment. Shane van Gisbergen is performing well this year, but Ross Chastain is 23rd in points (112 behind Suarez), and rookie Connor Zilisch is 34th in points.<\/p>\n At Spire, Suarez has been an outstanding teammate, with reports that he\u2019s been a glue guy for Carson Hocevar and Michael McDowell. The team now has two race winners this season, with Suarez and Hocevar both in a great position to make the Chase.<\/p>\n A contract extension should be coming for Suarez, and it\u2019ll be well-earned as he\u2019s made the most of this opportunity in a prove-it year. It also takes another domino out of NASCAR silly season, with a majority of the top impending free agents either extended or likely to be re-signed.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being dropped by Trackhouse Racing, veteran NASCAR driver Daniel Suarez signed a one-year deal with Spire Motorsports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,37447,21623,634,18143,82,36954],"class_list":["post-695103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-suarez","tag-jordan-bianchi","tag-nascar","tag-spire-motorsports","tag-sports","tag-trackhouse-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}