| Trackhouse Racing arrives in South Florida for Sunday’s 400-mile NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway with a bit of momentum after Daniel Suárez and Ross Chastain each posted top-10 finishes at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. With three races remaining in the 2024 season, both Trackhouse drivers hope to continue the success as they close out the year and prepare for the 2025 season. |
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| Kubota Tractor Corporation: Ross Chastain will pilot the orange-and-black Kubota Tractor Corporation livery for the final time this season at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway. He most recently drove it to victory four weeks ago at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City. Each time Chastain has been behind the wheel of the No. 1 Chevy with the Kubota livery this season, he’s finished in the top-10. A streak he hopes to keep alive this weekend at Homestead-Miami to cap the season off with six top-10 finishes in the Kubota branded Chevrolet. |
Kubota Specialty Scheme: The inspiration for this weekend’s special scheme came from Kubota’s desire to celebrate Chastain’s love of watermelon farming at his home track. With Chastain being a Kubota tractor owner himself, it combines watermelons with Kubota equipment used in agriculture, such as tractors and skid steers. In coordination with the scheme, there will also be scheme-matching merchandise available for purchase at the Trackhouse Merchandise hauler located in the Homestead fan midway, and the Trackhouse online store. |
| $10,000 Donation for Top-10 Finish: For the second year, Kubota and Trackhouse Racing are putting the partnership in overdrive in support of farmer veterans. In the races Kubota is serving as the primary sponsor of Chastain’s No. 1 Kubota Chevrolet, a $10,000 donation will be made to the Farmer Veteran Coalition for a top-10 finish. The Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC) is a national nonprofit organization that assists military veterans and currently serving members of the Armed Forces to transition into careers in farming, and since 2015, Kubota has partnered with FVC on the “Geared to Give” program which has provided more than $900,000 to the coalition in the form of organizational support, grants to veterans and 41 pieces of donated equipment. So far this season, Chastain has secured a total of $50,000 in donations with a fourth-place finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March, sixth-place finish at Phoenix Raceway, fifth-place finish at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway, 10th-place at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and a victory four weeks ago at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City. Chastain has one final opportunity this weekend at Homestead-Miami to raise an additional $10,000 for FVC if he finishes in the top-10 and bring the donation total to $60,000.Meet Chastain: On Saturday at Noon ET, Chastain will sign autographs at Florida Coast Equipment, 1995 NE 8th Street, Homestead, Fla.Homestead-Miami Stats: Chastain will make his sixth Cup Series start this weekend at the South Florida track. Two years ago he finished runner-up at the mile-and-a-half venue and last year his strong run was cut short due to an accident.Most Wins for No. 1 Car in Cup Series: The No. 1 car has been to victory lane five times with Chastain since 2022. That marks the most wins by a driver in the No. 1 car. Jamie McMurray previously held the record with four wins in the No. 1 car.Season Stats: With three races remaining this season and a victory under his belt, Chastain currently has the seventh best average finish of 14.5 among fulltime Cup Series competitors, and is eighth in most laps led this season with 311.Last Weekend at Las Vegas: Chastain started the weekend strong with a seventh-place qualifying position for the No. 1 Chevy. Chastain was quick on Sunday, running in the top-10 most of the race and overcoming a pit lane speeding penalty en route to his 13th-top-10 finish of the season.NASCAR: Full Speed: Catch Chastain in the five-episode docuseries NASCAR: Full Speed on Netflix. The series documented portions of Chastain’s 2023 season on and off the track. All five episodes are currently available on Netflix.2023 Season Recap: Chastain won at Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway in June and at the Phoenix Raceway season finale in November. He posted 10 top-five and 14 top-10 finishes in his third full time Cup season. The Alva, Florida native finished ninth in points. |
| Ross Chastain Career Statistics Chastain Quotes: I guess you could consider Homestead your home track, will you have a lot of people there? “I’ll have a lot of people at the track this weekend. It lines up with the FLorida Watermelon Association convention over in Fort Myers leading up to the race. It sounds silly to stay out loud to most people, but in the industry, it’s when everybody and anybody involved in Florida watermelons gets together So I’ll be over there for a couple of days and then drive over to Homestead. There will be a lot of people there from Southwest Florida because it’s a little closer than Daytona.” What pride do you take in the steps the No. 1 team has taken over these last couple of months to improve the performance?“The performance kept going up through the summer stretch when we just weren’t fast enough. I didn’t have the grip I needed to go fast. Now the speed is back and we’re going to places where we can continue to show that. As long as we are in the front couple of rows at the end of a race, we’ll have a shot to win.” |
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| About Kubota Tractor Corporation: Kubota Tractor Corporation, Grapevine, Texas, is the U.S. marketer and distributor of Kubota-engineered and manufactured machinery and equipment, including a complete line of tractors of up to 200 Gross hp performance- matched implements, compact construction equipment, consumer lawn and garden equipment, hay tools, commercial turf products and utility vehicles. For product literature or dealer locations, contact: Kubota Tractor Corporation, 1000 Kubota Drive, Grapevine, TX 76051, (888) 4-KUBOTA [(888) 458-2682], Ext. 900, or visit KubotaUSA.com. |
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| Suárez NotesArriving in Homestead: Daniel Suárez led twice for 57 laps at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday and finished third – his fourth top-five finish of the 2024 season. Suárez lost the lead with six laps remaining nearly pulling off a win by stretching tires and fuel.Trackhouse Racing: The team made its 250th start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway last Sunday. In those races, it has posted eight wins, 46 top-five and 85 top-10 finishes. Its drivers have led 2,264 laps. Daniel Suárez, Ross Chastain, Kimi Raikkonen and Shane van Gisbergen have all made starts for the Justin Marks-owned team that began competition as a single-car team in 2021.New No. 99 Paint Scheme: Suárez will drive a new paint scheme on Sunday in Homestead. The predominantly blue and green paint scheme recognizes Freeway Insurance’s Franchises.Playoffs: Suárez was eliminated from the playoffs in the Round of 12. He has been part of the playoffs two of the last three seasons.Big Night Planned in Miami: Suárez and his wife Julia, who is a graduate of the University of Miami, plan to attend Saturday night’s Miami- Florida State football game.Back in 2025: Trackhouse Racing announced in August that Suárez and Freeway Insurance will return to the No. 99 Chevrolet racing team for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, marking their fifth season together. Freeway will be the primary sponsor for one-third of the 2025 season, including the Daytona 500 and the NASCAR All-Star race.Married Man/Racer: Suárez married his fiancé Julia Piquet at a ceremony on July 30 in Brazil. Four days later he raced in the NASCAR Brazil race at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, better known as Interlagos. He won one of the three races and battled for victory in the other two races.Making History: Suárez now has the unique accomplishment of winning in NASCAR Mexico and Brazil in addition to all three American series. |
Suárez is Now a Dual Citizen of Mexico and the United States: Suárez took the Oath of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony on June 18 in front of media, friends, the NASCAR industry and NASCAR President Steve Phelps who gave the keynote address to the 48 new citizens from 28 countries who joined Suárez at the ceremony. The 32-year-old, Monterrey, Mexico native came to America about 13 years ago without speaking English. He passed the United States Citizenship test on April 29 in Charlotte before taking the final step on June 18. He is now a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States. |
| Atlanta Victory: At Atlanta, he and runner-up Ryan Blaney were separated by 0.003 seconds at the finish line. It was the fourth-closest finish in series history, and with third-place Kyle Busch just 0.007 seconds behind the winner, it also stands as the closest finish among three cars in the history of auto racing.First Mexican to Win in Cup: Suárez became the first driver from Mexico (Monterrey) to win in the NASCAR Cup Series on June 12, 2022, at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway.International Driver: He is one of six drivers not from the United States to win a NASCAR Cup Series race: Shane van Gisbergen (New Zealand), Marcos Ambrose (Australia), Juan Pablo Montoya (Colombia), Earl Ross (Canada) and Mario Andretti (Italy). Ambrose, Montoya, and Suárez own two victories each.Cup Career Highlights: Suárez owns two victories (Sonoma 2022 and Atlanta 2024) and three Busch Light Pole Awards – Pocono (Pa.) Raceway July 2018, Kentucky Speedway July 2019, and on the road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in August 2023. |
| Daniel Suárez Career Statistics Suárez Quotes:Does a third-place finish last week give you momentum coming into Sunday’s race in Homestead?“Of course it does. We had a fast car in Las Vegas. It wasn’t the fastest car on the track, but my crew made some smart decisions and we turned that into a third-place finish. I wish we could have ended the race a few laps earlier and maybe if a few other things had happened we would have won the race, but we put ourselves in a great position to win a race and that’s something I would like to do every week.”Do you like visiting Homestead?“I do. Homestead, Texas, California all those place feel like home to me. The fans are very welcoming and it seems like we get a lot of cheers during the introductions. We are going to have a lot of fun this weekend on the race track,meeting our friends at Florida Coast Equipment and Freeway Insurance plus going to the Miami football game. My wife Julia is turning me into a big fan of ‘The U.'” |
| Meet Daniel Suárez |
| 1p.m. Friday at Florida Coast Equipment1995 NE 8th St., Homestead Meet Daniel Suárez |
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| HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA – Freeway Insurance, a division of Confie, the nation’s largest personal lines insurance distribution company, is proud to announce a new educational partnership with SLAM Foundation. SLAM is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to expanding K-12 tuition-free public charter schools in underrepresented communities across the country. The organization was founded by GRAMMY®-winning artist, international superstar, entrepreneur, and education advocate Armando Christian Pérez, Pitbull.As part of this partnership, Freeway Insurance has contributed an educational insurance module to SLAM’s financial literacy curriculum, enabling students to gain a deeper understanding of the importance of insurance coverage and its benefits. This partnership was inspired by Pitbull’s involvement with Trackhouse Racing, where he holds an ownership stake, alongside Freeway Insurance’s sponsorship of NASCAR Cup Series driver Daniel Suárez. Fans will get their first glimpse of this collaboration when the newly designed Freeway car, featuring a bold FreewayFranchise.com design and SLAM logos, debuts at the Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on October 27. |
