Daniel Suarez says he "misplaced numerous respect" for Ross Chastain after Vegas feedback

In ‘The Lengthy Run’ vlog, which you’ll watch HERE, Daniel Suarez supplied further feedback relating to the on and off-track clashes with Ross Chastain final weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The 2 drivers have been teammates at Trackhouse Racing between 2022 and 2025, earlier than Suarez and the group parted methods. Now driving for Spire Motorsports, Suarez defined your entire sequence of occasions that led to the post-race confrontation between himself and Chastain, laughing as he known as him his ‘enemigo.’

The preliminary contact

First, the 2 drivers made contact within the opening two laps of the race, with Suarez saying within the vlog: “I really feel like all the things type of began on Lap 2, truly Lap 1 and 1 / 4. He crowded me with the #38 [Zane Smith] and he hit me proper there. It wasn’t a giant deal, you understand. That is a racing deal. I by no means even considered something, I by no means raced him laborious due to that or something. I moved on, that is racing. I am fairly positive he did not imply to do this, it is a part of racing.”

The late-race cross

A lot later within the race, Chastain started to run Suarez down as he struggled with the left-front tire on his #7 Chevrolet. Chastain handed him to the surface with simply over two laps to go, and there was some very shut racing as he glided by. Chastain then appeared to provide Suarez the center finger out the window as he drove away.

“Three laps to go after I was having this subject with the left entrance tire, he got here and he was passing me. I used to be making an attempt to race him — it is three laps to go. When he was passing me, I obtained free and I crowded him. We did not contact, he did not hit the wall, no person crashed, no person misplaced a place. Every little thing was effective. However clearly, he was mad. Comprehensible, a bit mad. That is effective. He gave me the finger for a lap or half-a-lap, which I believe is a bit bit pointless. However that is him, that is effective.”

Cooldown lap contact

Chastain went on to complete seventeenth, and Suarez crossed the road in 18th. On the cooldown lap, Suarez drove alongside Chastain, and waved to him. Chastain then doored Suarez, and in response to the Spire driver, Suarez was making an attempt to apologize for the shut name.

“He was simply tremendous mad,” continued Suarez, who raised some security issues. “He hit me on the cooldown lap, which I believe is tremendous unacceptable, as a result of at that time, we already free our belts and all these type of issues. Some individuals even open their belts utterly, in order that’s not good. For me, the most important factor is afterwards…”

Drivers have been penalized for intentional cooldown lap contact earlier than, together with Bubba Wallace, who hit Alex Bowman following the Chicago Road Course race in 2024, and even Suarez himself, who bumped Chastain and Bowman as they entered the pits after a race at COTA in 2023.

Pit highway confrontation

However again to Vegas this previous weekend, issues spilled over right into a tense pit highway confrontation, with Suarez approaching Chastain, who gave the impression to be fairly agitated. They have been separated after placing palms on each other, and that was primarily the top of it.

“What occurs on the race observe occurs on the race observe,” mentioned Suarez. “That is racing, proper? Everybody goes to get into it with one other driver now and again … that is a part of it. What I used to be truly fairly upset and dissatisfied is what occurred afterwards.

“I’ve identified Ross for a very long time, and I’ve at all times identified that him and I have been very totally different. We’re very totally different type of individuals. That is okay, I’ll at all times respect him. However the type of phrases that he mentioned after the race is simply utterly unacceptable. That is hen stuff. That is not good. I misplaced numerous respect for him, as an individual, as a result of that is simply not good. It is not a very good search for him, it is not a very good search for the type of individual that he’s, I believe. And it was just a bit bit unhappy, to be sincere. I actually wished to — I used to be getting fired as much as struggle, however what was I going to realize? There’s nothing to realize with that. He is not the type of individual I actually wish to struggle. However yeah, simply dissatisfied.”

Suarez did not point out what was mentioned that he discovered ‘unacceptable,’ however Suarez additionally addressed the concept he’s actively concentrating on Trackhouse, as he is additionally had some run-ins with the opposite two drivers on the group early within the 2026 season.

“Pay attention, lots of people assume that I am making an attempt to focus on Trackhouse, and I am not even fascinated with that,” asserted Suarez.

The vlog, which started final 12 months with the assistance of spouse, Julia Piquet, is generally weekly, however Suarez famous that they are going to be selecting and selecting which races to spotlight sooner or later, with the subsequent deliberate vlog centered across the Bristol race weekend.

The total video that includes Suarez’s feedback might be seen under: