Ever wanted to know what it is like for a new team to prepare for months and race in the Daytona 500?
Why someone like Justin Marks would start a NASCAR Cup Series team like Trackhouse Racing?
What a team meeting with Pitbull is like the night before the race? Or, visit the school he built in his Miami neighborhood?
Ever wondered just how tough Daniel Suárez is behind the wheel of the No. 99 Chevrolet?
If you want answers to any of the above then watch “TRACKHOUSE: GET READY” Thursday at 7 PM ET on NASCAR’s Facebook and YouTube channels.
Cameras spent weeks with the Trackhouse team as it raced in the first three races of the 2021 Cup Series season. They captured the off track moments as the new team took its first steps of what it expects to be a long journey.
Pitbull, Daniel Suárez, Justin Marks and Steve Phelps at SLAM! School in Miami on Monday.
SLAM! School Visit
After finishing 15th at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway on Sunday Suárez spent Monday in Miami touring Trackhouse Co-Owner Pitbull’s SLAM! (Sports Leadership Arts and Management) inner-city charter school — which he helped establish seven years ago.
Suárez joined Marks and NASCAR President Steve Phelps in meeting with students and discussing the importance of education.
Suárez held a news conference from the radio and television broadcasting classes and talked to students about the importance of STEM in racing as well as the job market.
Pitbull joined the group as they fired the engine of the No. 99 Chevrolet liveried in a special SLAM! paint scheme. Suarez even did a burnout in front of the students and the team’s race hauler.
Viva Las Vegas
Suárez and the No. 99 Camping World Chevrolet Camaro crew take on the 1.5-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday in the fourth race of the 2021 season.
Suárez has raced at the front of the field in all three races this season and has surprised many with his early success with such a new organization.
Suárez enters the race 22nd in points despite being caught up in a lap 14 wreck in the Daytona 500. He suffered heavy damage in a first lap encounter when another car slowed in front of the field at the start of Sunday’s race in Homestead.
The No. 99 should climb higher in the standings in the coming weeks. Watch Sunday’s race at 3:30 p.m. ET on Fox.
TIL NEXT TIME, I AM STILL WORKING ON MY REDNECK!
