and spent the final 4 years as teammates at Trackhouse Racing, however they don’t seem to be teammates any longer. Suarez now drives for Spire Motorsports after being let go from Trackhouse, and he has had a strong begin to the 2026 season.
However on Sunday, Suarez and Chastain had been operating on the backend of the highest 20. Battling for seventeenth, Chastain handed Suarez to the surface with just some laps to go. Because the #1 Trackhouse driver handed him on the surface in a really shut battle, he appeared to gesture to Suarez out the window with one finger.
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Chastain completed seventeenth, whereas Suarez was 18th. On the cooldown lap, the #7 Spire driver pulled alongside Chastain, who then doored him down the backstretch. They continued to drive side-by-side on their approach again to the pits however Suarez pulled forward.
As soon as stopped, each drivers rapidly exited their automobiles and had a tense dialogue subsequent to the #1 automobile. At one level, they put their arms on one another and there was some temporary shoving earlier than getting separated. They continued to change phrases for just a few extra seconds earlier than the confrontation ended.
These two even had some tense moments whereas they had been nonetheless teammates at Trackhouse, notably at COTA in 2024 when Suarez took concern with Chastain for some late-race contact, bumped him after the race and confronted him within the pits. Final 12 months, in addition they had a coming collectively at Sonoma, the place Chastain spun Suarez within the hairpin.
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