{"id":1538094,"date":"2022-11-12T13:25:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1538094"},"modified":"2022-11-12T13:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:25:31","slug":"2022-cup-series-season-in-review-trackhouse-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/2022-cup-series-season-in-review-trackhouse-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Cup Series Season in Review: Trackhouse Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If there was one team the entire NASCAR industry didn't see coming in the 2022 Cup Series season, it was Trackhouse Racing<\/a>. In its second year, the organization made its mark in a big way, from Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez<\/a> earning their first career Cup wins to the watermelon farmer pulling off the Martinsville Miracle<\/a> that became a viral video and extended the team and NASCAR's brand around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there were plenty of good things to talk about this year with the team co-owned by Justin Marks and Pitbull, it wasn't all good. Chastain upset more than a few drivers<\/a> with his aggressive driving. Here's a look back on Trackhouse's history-making season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trackhouse Racing was surprise team of 2022 Cup Series season<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Trackhouse Racing drivers Daniel Suarez and Ross Chastain practice for the NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on September 03, 2022. | Photo by Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Trackhouse Racing story in 2022 was unquestionably a major highlight for the Cup Series. Both Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez served notice to the competition early in the season, with the pair combining for five top-5 finishes in the first five races.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chastain scored three consecutive top-5s at Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Atlanta, before his breakthrough at Austin and Circuit of the Americas, where his aggressive last-lap move on AJ Allmendinger and Alex Bowman just a few turns from the finish line was dramatic and historic, scoring the first win in the organization's short existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than a month later, the 29-year-old made his second trip to Victory Lane when he unexpectedly won at Talladega on the final lap and showed that he could win on two very different track styles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of months later, Suarez got in on the action, running a dominant race in wine country and winning his first-ever career Cup trophy at Sonoma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both drivers made it into the playoffs, with Chastain advancing all the way to the Championship 4 and coming up just short behind winner Joey Logano. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chastain didn't make a lot of friends<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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