Suarez was working within the top-five and in rivalry for the win because the race went into the primary of three two-lap overtimes, however received shoved off the course and into Martin Truex Jr. heading up the hill to Flip 1.
The contact was instigated by his Trackhouse Racing team-mate Ross Chastain bumping into Bowman, who then hit Suarez and despatched him into Truex.
Each Truex and Suarez ended up stopped briefly on the observe and each misplaced quite a few positions within the collision. By the ultimate additional time, they ended up 17th (Truex) and 27th (Suarez) respectively, whereas Bowman and Chastain completed third and fourth.
On the cool-down lap after the race, a pissed off Suarez knocked Chastain out of the best way earlier than following Bowman down pit street after slamming into the again of his Hendrick Chevrolet a number of occasions.
After exiting his automobile, Suarez additionally engaged in animated conversations on pit street with Chastain in addition to Bowman.
A NASCAR spokesperson confirmed on Monday that the sanctioning physique was wanting into Suarez’s actions on pit street. Any penalties would seemingly come early this week.
Deliberately damaging one other car on pit street can carry a lack of 25 to 50 driver and/or workforce proprietor factors and/or a $50,000 to $100,000 superb.
“He simply thought I drove in and tried to drive via him,” Bowman mentioned of his dialogue with Suarez.
“I had the nook made. Solely motive I used to be inside [Suarez] was to guard from [Chastain]. Then [Chastain] simply hammered me within the nook, dumped me, then I bumped into [Suarez], sort of cleaned him out.
Alex Bowman, Hendrick Motorsports, Ally Chevrolet Camaro and Ty Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing, He Will get us Toyota Camry
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“Daniel and I, we’ve been team-mates previously, raced collectively a very long time.
“I respect the hell out of him. I’m positive he’s nonetheless not super-happy. Simply tried to clarify that I wouldn’t race him like that, that I used to be shoved in there.”
After the race, Trackhouse co-owner Justin Marks wrote on his Twitter account: “This entire NASCAR factor is a pressure on my grownup coronary heart.”
Chastain took his maiden NASCAR Cup victory in final 12 months’s COTA race, whereas Suarez underlined Trackhouse’s potential on street programs by breaking his duck at Sonoma.
The race was won by Tyler Reddick’s 23XI Racing Toyota, whereas 2009 System 1 world champion Jenson Button beat Kimi Raikkonen to the honour of greatest street course ringer by ending 18th after combating warmth exhaustion.
