Daniel Suarez is now seven races into his NASCAR Cup Series career and with the arrival of the first off-week of the season, Suarez is visiting his home in Mexico.
NBC Sports’ Rutledge Wood is with Suarez filming a future episode of “Racing Roots.”
On Tuesday, Wood visited with Suarez at the “Speedway of Monterrey,” the track he got his racing start at when he was 11.
In the video, Wood and Suarez discuss how the driver’s rookie season is going and about the early days of his career.
Suarez talks about how the challenges of moving up to NASCAR when no one from Mexico had done it before him.