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Which channels have NASCAR programming this week? We answer that and give you the weekly NASCAR television listings here in the NASCAR TV schedule.

Note: All times are ET.

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Monday, August 5
3 p.m., NASCAR 120, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
5 p.m., NASCAR America: “Monday,” NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1/FOX Sports App
7 p.m., Unrivaled: Earnhardt vs. Gordon, FS1/FOX Sports App

On MRN:
12:30 p.m., MRN Outloud

Tuesday, August 6
5 p.m., Dale Jr. Download, NBCSN/NBC Sports App

Wednesday, August 7
5 p.m., NASCAR America: “Motormouths,” NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR Racing K&N Series: Watkins Glen International, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
7 p.m., NASCAR Racing Whelen Series: Stafford 150, NBCSN/NBC Sports App

On MRN:
12 p.m., NASCAR Coast to Coast
3 p.m., Crew Call

Thursday, Aug. 8
5 p.m., NASCAR America: “Motorsports Hour,” NBCSN/NBC Sports App
7 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1/FOX Sports App

Friday, Aug. 9
Noon, NASCAR The Decades, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
12:30 p.m. Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN 2)
1:35 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series first practice, NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
4:05 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series final practice, NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
5 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series qualifying, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN 5)
6 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
7 p.m., NASCAR The Decades, NBCSN/NBC Sports App

On MRN:
12:30 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice
5 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series qualifying

Saturday, Aug. 10
8:35 a.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice, CNBC, NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
9:30 a.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series qualifying, FS2/FOX Sports App
11:30 a.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series final practice, NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
11:40 a.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series qualifying, NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
Noon, NASCAR RaceDay: Gander Outdoors Truck Series, FS1/FOX Sports App
1 p.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race, FS1/FOX Sports App (Coverage will start on FS2)
3 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series race, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN 4, 5)
10:30 p.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race, FS2/FOX Sports App (re-air)

On MRN:
8:30 a.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice
11:30 a.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice
12:30 p.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race
2:30 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series race

Sunday, Aug. 11
11 a.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race, FS1/FOX Sports App (re-air)
1 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay, FS1/FOX Sports App
2 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
2:30 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Countdown to Green, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
3 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN 4, 5)
6 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Post Race, NBCSN/NBC Sports App

On MRN:
2 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race

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Chase Elliott swept the stages Sunday at Watkins Glen International, dominating Stage 2 of the Go Bowling at The Glen in the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

Elliott, who led every lap of Stage 1, picks up his fourth stage win of the season.

MORE: Stage 2 results

Rounding out the top five were Martin Truex Jr. in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, Kevin Harvick in the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford, Clint Bowyer in the No. 14 SHR Ford and Denny Hamlin in the No. 11 JGR Toyota.

A caution came out on Lap 33 as Reed Sorenson’s No. 77 entry billowing smoke after a mechanical issue. On Lap 39, Bubba Wallace hit the wall in the carousel to bring out the caution once more to end the stage.

Finish Driver Team Points
1  Chase Elliott  Hendrick Motorsports 10
2  Martin Truex Jr.  Joe Gibbs Racing 9
3  Kevin Harvick  Stewart-Haas Racing 8
4  Clint Bowyer  Stewart-Haas Racing 7
5  Denny Hamlin  Joe Gibbs Racing 6
6  Brad Keselowski Team Penske 5
7  Alex Bowman  Hendrick Motorsports 4
8  Erik Jones  Joe Gibbs Racing 3
9  Ryan Blaney  Team Penske 2
10  Jimmie Johnson  Hendrick Motorsports 1

Stage 1

Defending winner and pole-starter Chase Elliott won the opening stage in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International in the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

Elliott, who picked up the first win of his career in this race a year ago, led every lap of the 20-circuit stage for his third stage win of the season.

MORE: Stage 1 results

Right behind the 2019 Talladega winner was Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin in the No. 11 Toyota. Rounding out the top five were Martn Truex Jr. in the No. 19 JGR Toyota, Kyle Busch in the No. 18 Toyota and William Byron in the No. 24 HMS Chevrolet.

Busch, the two-time winner at The Glen, spun on the second lap while battling Byron near the front of the field, but managed to get his car going again quickly as the race stayed green. Busch moved Byron to get to fourth late in the stage, prompting payback from Byron during the stage break that mainly resulted in damage to the No. 24

Jimmie Johnson, in his first race with new crew chief Cliff Daniels, is off to a hot start despite never having won at The Glen. He placed sixth.

Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney forfeited his starting position of 19th before the race for unapproved adjustments, forcing him to start from the rear. He placed 33rd in the stage.

Finish Driver Team Points
1  Chase Elliott  Hendrick Motorsports 10
2  Denny Hamlin  Joe Gibbs Racing 9
3  Martin Truex Jr.  Joe Gibbs Racing 8
4  Kyle Busch  Joe Gibbs Racing 7
5  William Byron  Hendrick Motorsports 6
6  Jimmie Johnson  Hendrick Motorsports 5
7  Kyle Larson  Chip Ganassi Racing 4
8  Erik Jones  Joe Gibbs Racing 3
9  Kurt Busch  Chip Ganassi Racing 2
10  Aric Almirola  Stewart-Haas Racing 1

 

Posted on by Nick Giffen

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The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heads to its second road course race of the year at Watkins Glen International. “The Glen” is a very different road course from Sonoma Raceway, where the first road course race took place.

Watkins Glen is full of high-speed corners, whereas Sonoma has more low-speed turns.

As a result, we’ll be looking at each driver’s Watkins Glen history much more than his overall road course performance. Practice times and year-to-date driver rating also have a significant factor in my statistical model for the Glen.

Since 2013, five of the six race winners started inside the top six (Joey Logano won from the 16th starting position in 2015). Additionally, every driver since 2013 who led at least 20% of the laps in a single Watkins Glen race started 12th or better.

In other words, it’s going to be hard to win and dominate if you’re starting too far back.

RELATED: Prop this: Can Suarez keep mojo going? | Updated Watkins Glen odds

Inspection takes place at 9 a.m. ET Sunday, and any cars that fail inspection will be sent to the rear of the field for the start of the race. That makes betting favorites prior to inspection extremely hard, since they could be sent to the rear.

As such, I’m holding off on any single-digit odds to win, and looking at one double-digit play for today’s race . Once inspection is complete, I may post more outright bets to win.

In the meantime, I give my thoughts on how to play the favorites, should each pass inspection.

*All odds as of 7:00 a.m. ET on Sunday. A quick explainer on the odds below: A $100 wager on +2000 would profit $2,000.

Brad Keselowski +2000

Keselowski opened at +1200 at the Westgate SuperBook and despite some solid practice sessions, he now finds himself listed at +2000 thanks to a 10th-place qualifying effort.

Keselowski practiced inside the top eight in both five- and 10-lap average in final practice, and was one of two drivers to make a 15-lap run in final practice, suggesting he was happy with his car. Also, we know drivers starting inside the top 12 can lead laps, so Keselowski certainly has a shot to lead laps and therefore a chance win if things fall right.

Keselowski’s track history is also quite strong. Not counting his rookie year, he has finished inside the top three 50% of the time at The Glen, and holds the fifth-best driver rating at the track among active drivers.

He’ll certainly have to overcome race favorites Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Chase Elliott, all of whom have a better driver rating at The Glen and a better starting position, but we can’t bet these guys until inspection is complete.

How to Bet the Favorites

Currently four drivers are listed in the single digits at the Westgate SuperBook. They are:

  • Kyle Busch +200
  • Martin Truex Jr. +400
  • Chase Elliott +400
  • Denny Hamlin +900

It’s simply too hard to bet Busch at +200 even if he passes inspection. There’s just too much variability at road courses to feel confident that he’ll win more than 33% of the time.

Should Truex pass inspection, I like a bet on him at +450 or longer, but I haven’t found him beyond +400 yet.

Elliott is listed at +550 at DraftKings Sportsbook, and if he passes inspection, that is a fine bet.

I’d pass on Hamlin at +900, but if he falls into the double digits with a passing car, he’s worth consideration.

Posted on by RJ Kraft

Chase Elliott is on the pole for the GoBowling at The Glen on Sunday at Watkins Glen International (3 p.m. ET, NBCSN/NBC Sports App, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Does the defending race winner at the road course merit a spot in your Fantasy Live lineup? We’ve dissected the numbers to offer a suggested lineup worthy of your Fantasy Live consideration. Remember that inspection Sunday morning makes the starting lineup official.

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RJ Kraft’s Fantasy Live lineup for race day at Watkins Glen:
1. Kyle Busch
2. Martin Truex Jr.
3. Chase Elliott
4. William Byron
5. Denny Hamlin
Garage: Brad Keselowski

Cars to the rear: Ryan Blaney (unapproved adjustments)

RELATED: Odds for Watkins Glen | Lap averages | Weekend preview

Analysis: I’m sticking with my original lineup but moving Elliott into an active spot for Keselowski. I have five of the top six cars in the starting lineup, plus a driver-crew chief combo known for shaking it up and taking risks in the garage. I expect Byron to go full throttle on stage points.

The way Watkins Glen’s stages are (and we saw this in the Xfinity race on Saturday as well as the Cup race last year) drivers don’t have to punt both stages to set themselves up better for the win. Elliott and Truex each won a stage last year and finished 1-2. My point is you may not get stage points in both stages — 19 drivers got stage points in last year’s Cup race; Truex was the only driver to earn stage points in both stages — but the odds are you’ll get some sort of points in the stages from the bulk of your lineup.

For the bonus picks, I like Truex to score the Stage 1 win with Hamlin taking Stage 2 and Kyle Busch bringing home the victory.

Each week in this space, we’ll also highlight two Props Challenge items for players.

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1. Will the polesitter lead the first seven laps? Elliott has one of the best cars this weekend and while the Joe Gibbs Racing fleet will be in hot pursuit, I’ll say YES he leads the first seven laps. Probably not much more than that, though, in Stage 1.

2. Which driver finishes higher? Paul Menard or Ryan Newman? Both drivers qualified outside the top 20 pending inspection but my gut says Newman will do what he always does — grind out a finish that you don’t quite expect. The Roush Fenway Racing driver is currently in the provisional playoff grid so he can’t afford a bad day because there is a hungry pack of drivers waiting to grab that spot. Menard has never scored a top 10 here in 15 starts, so I’ll go with Newman for that reason as well.

Posted on by Reid Spencer

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – Chase Elliott isn’t racing differently on road courses. He’s just racing better.

And on Saturday, Elliott returned to Watkins Glen International with a vengeance, taking a giant step toward another victory at the track that gave him his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win last year.

Elliott covered the 2.45-mile layout in 69.287 seconds (127.297 mph) to edge his Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron for the top starting spot in Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen (3 p.m. ET on NBCSN/NBC Sports App, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), the 22nd event on the Cup calendar this year.

RELATED: Starting lineup for Watkins Glen

The Busch Pole Award was Elliott’s first on a road course, his third of the season and the seventh of his career. Most important, it reinforced Elliott’s status as a legitimate contender at the seven-turn track that features right-hand as well as left-hand corners.

“Our NAPA Chevy is fast, which is nice,” Elliott said. “It cooled off a lot (in late afternoon), and the track picked up a lot of pace from practice. So I just tried to find the limits of all that. There were a couple of places where I thought I could get more, but you always want to get more.

“Qualifying well here is important, because the strategy is important. Pitting these cars backwards (with fuel intakes on the right side instead of left), you need good pit selection and track position. This is a great result for our NAPA Chevy team.”

PHOTOS: See every car in Sunday’s field

Elliott finished 13th in his first two races at The Glen. Then last year, he started third and got his breakthrough victory.

“I don’t think I necessarily did anything different today than I did my first two trips,” Elliott said. “You hope you’ve gotten better as time goes on, but I can’t really say my approach was any different. I just think the combination of the cars getting better and us working together more is what helped us get the pole today.”

Byron earned his eighth front-row starting spot of the season. Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch (126.976 mph) and Martin Truex Jr. (126.861 mph) qualified third and fourth to lead the Toyota contingent.

Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch and Jimmie Johnson will start fifth through eighth, respectively. Aric Almirola claimed the ninth spot on the grid in the fastest Ford.

Early in the first of two qualifying rounds, Erik Jones blew a right front tire in Turn 1. After his car was towed back to pit road, he recovered to qualify 14th.

“I just missed my mark,” Jones said of his entry into the first corner. “I just got in too hot and locked the right front up enough that it blew it out. That’s not what you want to do. I kind of thought we were done, and I didn’t realize that the rule was that if you don’t complete a lap you get to come back in and change tires.

“We put another tire on it, and the DeWalt Camry had good speed. I was just a little conservative on my lap, which I think you can probably understand why after the first time. Still a good starting spot. It has more speed than that, so it’s frustrating in that way, but still nice that we’re starting off better than dead last where we thought we were going to be.”

Posted on by Zack Albert

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — NASCAR officials disqualified the second-finishing Kaulig Racing No. 10 Chevrolet of AJ Allmendinger for a technical violation after Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at Watkins Glen International.

Allmendinger had led a race-high 24 of 82 laps in the Zippo 200, crossing the finish line 1.168 seconds behind first-time winner Austin Cindric on the 2.45-mile course. But his Kaulig Racing entry was found to be too low on both the right-rear and left-rear corners in post-race inspection, dropping Allmendinger to a last-place result in the 37-car field.

RELATED: Official race results

Xfinity Series director Wayne Auton said that the No. 10 car was inspected for damage in post-race inspection. He also added that the Matt Kaulig-owned organization has until noon ET Monday to file an appeal.

Allmendinger, a former regular in the Monster Energy Series, has returned to NASCAR competition this season on a partial schedule in the Xfinity Series. Both of his starts thus far, however, have resulted in disqualifications. Officials threw out Allmendinger’s apparent third-place finish at Daytona International Speedway in July, demoting him to last place.

Auton said that the Kaulig team’s second offense would not necessarily result in a stiffer penalty.

“No, we’ll obviously talk about it, but whenever you get DQ-d, I think that’s a pretty big penalty in itself,” Auton said. “So we consider this race closed now. The other cars have passed inspection.”

There is no minimum height requirement in the Monster Energy Series, but the Xfinity Series and Gander Outdoors Truck Series have a ride-height rule.

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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – Opportunity knocked for Austin Cindric after a mechanical failure knocked Kyle Busch out of Saturday’s Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen International. 

And after Cindric and road course ace AJ Allmendinger traded knocks on the final two laps of the NASCAR Xfinity Series race, Cindric—on fresher tires—emerged the winner for the first time in his career.

Following post-race inspection, Allmendinger’s No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet was disqualified for a rear height violation, dropping Allmendinger to last place in the running order. But fans left the track with the memory of an intense battle over the closing laps.

RELATED: No. 10 car disqualified at Watkins Glen | Race results

When NASCAR called the sixth caution on Lap 69 of 82, Brian Wilson, crew chief on Cindric’s No. 22 Team Penske Ford, made a courageous call that later proved decisive. Wilson brought Cindric from the lead to pit road for fresh tires, dropping the 20-year-old driver to ninth in the running order for a restart on Lap 73.

An immediate caution for a pile-up in Turn 1 left Cindric in sixth for the next restart on Lap 76. When Christopher Bell was knocked sideways in Turn 2, and Justin Allgaier and Tyler Reddick lost momentum while fighting for the second spot, Cindric charged around the outside into second place and chased Allmendinger.

It took three laps for Cindric to trim Allmendinger’s advantage from 1.714 seconds to .521 seconds, and from that point, the game was on. On Lap 81, Cindric nudged Allmendinger up the track in the carousel and took the lead. Allmendinger returned the favor approaching Turn 7 and regained the top spot as Cindric was forced wide.

But Allmendinger entered Turn 7 too wide and Cindric drove back underneath to lead Lap 81. On the final circuit he pulled away to win by 1.168 seconds and clinched a spot in the Xfinity Series Playoffs.

Cindric and Wilson had discussed the possibility of a late pit stop before the race.

“I’ve been on the other side of it,” Cindric said. “(Bell) had been pretty good all day, so it was going to be hard to hold him off depending on which lane he had on the restart.”

The only thing that went wrong was Cindric’s celebratory burnout. But it was helpful that pole winner Kyle Busch had critical issues during the race itself.

“I was kind of bummed,” Cindric said. “I broke the clutch out of it trying to do a burnout, so my guys are going to have to do a little extra work and I’ll have to buy them an even bigger dinner. We talked before the weekend, and we knew something would have to go wrong with (Kyle Busch), but I’m so blessed to be able to be here.”

After winning the first stage and pitting thereafter, Busch had just passed Ryan Blaney for the lead entering the inner loop when the upper control arm on the left front of his No. 18 Toyota broke. Busch retired from the race and opened the door for Cindric.

With the Allmendinger disqualification, Bell inherited the runner-up spot, followed by Allgaier, who traded hard knocks with Ross Chastain, eliminating Chastain from the race after hard contact with the barrier in the carousel. Blaney and Reddick ran fourth and fifth.

WATCH: Allgaier, Chastain tangle | Chastain mum after wreck

Posted on by Zack Albert

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race didn’t even get through the first of three stages before the battle of bumpers and words between Ross Chastain and Justin Allgaier escalated to a thermometer-bursting height at Watkins Glen International.

Chastain, one of the hottest drivers in NASCAR’s three national tours, was short-circuited by retaliation from Allgaier, who drove on to a third-place finish in the Zippo 200. Chastain exited after completing just 19 of the 82 laps, coming home in 33rd place.

Allgaier’s JR Motorsports No. 7 Chevrolet spun and made contact with the retaining wall near the bus-stop chicane after receiving a shove from Chastain’s No. 4 JD Motorsports Chevrolet on Lap 14 of the Zippo 200. Allgaier continued, then gave Chastain a solid bump in return six laps later, sending his car careening into the Turn 5 barrier on the final lap of Stage 1.

RELATED: Official race results

Allgaier owned up to the purpose behind his payback bump, explaining that previous altercations with Chastain had built up his anger level.

“We’ve had a rocky relationship over our racing career,” said Allgaier, who recovered to lead 13 laps in the final stage. “Unfortunately, I’ve been on the receiving end a number of times of him running into me, and he flat wrecked me in the bus stop back there. At some point, you just get to a point of where you’re tired of getting run into, and so I ran back into him. I had no intention of putting him in the wall. I wanted to spin him out, for sure. I wanted him to kind of have the same feeling that I had a few laps before whenever he spun me out, and I did it in a position where there was nobody else around us and made sure that if it was going to be a crash that it was just going to be the two of us.

“I hate it for Johnny (Davis) and the 4 team because obviously with the budget that they’re on, they don’t need to be wrecking race cars, but on the flip side of it, he knew what he was doing when he got into the bus stop and wrecked me on purpose, and then even when I caught him back, he slowed way, way down and he knew that I was mad at him. You can’t race like that and not have something come of it.”

Chastain issued a fiery reaction back to his crew over the team’s communications immediately after the incident, saying he would find Allgaier at a later time. After a trip to the infield care center for a mandatory check-up, Chastain was more measured with his words.

“Well no, you don’t expect to get wrecked like that at a NASCAR national series event,” Chastain said. “Just racing hard and mistakes on all sides, but I’m glad that my nine-point safety harness did its job because I hit the wall a ton.”

Pressed for if Allgaier’s aggression crossed a boundary, Chastain demurred. “I don’t know. I better keep my opinions to myself on that.”

Posted on by Zack Albert

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — One week removed from a Bubba Wallace gesture that touched off a testy post-race conversation at Pocono Raceway, Daniel Suarez’s arrival in New York’s Finger Lakes region was greeted with talk about another finger with a ripple effect.

RELATED: Full schedule for Watkins Glen

Suarez was in a jocular mood Saturday between Monster Energy Series practices at the 2.45-mile road course in Watkins Glen, saying that he and Wallace remain friends after their late-race aggression last Sunday, Wallace’s middle finger flip and their chippy discussion that followed. That pit-road chat spilled over to social media early in the week, but Suarez said he doesn’t expect to see any gestures again.

“He won’t. I guarantee you that,” Suarez said with a smile. “We are good friends but sometimes he drives a little bit over his head on the race track, and he’s been in wrecks a couple of times. He’s been a little bit too aggressive with myself or different situations. I don’t get to race him very often, but when I do, he’s a little bit too aggressive, which is OK.

“I don’t have a problem, but sometimes you can cross the line and you can get mad and things happen.”

Wallace explained the intent behind his gesture during a Tuesday appearance at Charlotte Motor Speedway, saying that he meant it in a playful manner. “I do it to guys I like and I can race around,” Wallace said, mentioning Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. as fellow drivers that he’s similarly saluted.

MORE: Wallace’s side of Pocono dust-up

On Saturday, Suarez repeated his mantra that those gestures equal fighting words. He also wasn’t buying the “all in good fun” explanation.

“He said he was playing, but I’m not dumb. I know he wasn’t,” Suarez said. “That was his excuse, but that’s OK with everybody. We move on and we focus on the next one.”

But which part of the interaction stirred the most anger: the close-quarters racing or the gesture?

“The way that he raced, I know him. That’s the way that he does things,” Suarez said. “I think that sometimes he’s smart, sometimes he’s not. The way that he did things and then flipped me, and then I got even more mad when he said that he was joking when I knew perfectly he wasn’t. It’s all good. It’s in the past. We’re friends. We have known each other for a long time. There is always that extra confidence in us, we know that we can fight and we can be good the next day. I get fired up pretty quick when it comes to that kind of stuff, as you guys can see.”

Suarez discarded the notion that his perilous spot in the NASCAR playoff picture may have fueled his irritation. The 27-year-old driver for Stewart-Haas Racing is still looking for his first premier-series win and sits 18th in the standings, just outside of the provisional postseason field.

“That thing that, ‘Hey, Daniel is getting pressure’ or ‘the tempers are getting into his head,’ but that has nothing to do with it,” Suarez said. “I can be leading the championship and I will get fired up as good as I get fired up right now. That’s just myself. I’ve been like this since I can remember.”