Daniel Suárez Interview

Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour presented by NASCAR on FOX

Fox Sports

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.8 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Suárez opens up about Spire Motorsports, NASCAR Cup Series competition, Texas Motor Speedway, playoff goals, teammate chemistry, NASCAR Mexico Series growth, NASCAR Brasil expansion, and his long-term future after racing in one of the most revealing NASCAR interviews of the season. Kevin Harvick sits down with Daniel Suárez on Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour to break down Suárez’s first season with Spire Motorsports, his top-10 finish at Texas, working alongside Carson Hocevar and Michael McDowell, helping grow NASCAR internationally, and what life could look like once his driving career ends. 0:00 - Intro 0:13 - Daniel Suárez Joins The Show! 0:33 - First Season Driving for Spire Motorsports 3:10 - Goals Heading Into Spire Motorsports 5:30 - Relationship With Jeff Dickerson 8:08 - Finishing 6th At Texas 10:17 - Relationship With Crew Chief Ryan Sparks 11:59 - Relationship With Teammates Carson Hocevar & Michael McDowell 13:54 - Goals For The Rest Of The Season 18:10 - Falling Out With Ross Chastain 19:17 - Becoming Friends With McDowell Despite Fight 20:28 - Growing Up Fighting 23:08 - Preparing To Becoming A Dad 24:52 - Advancing NASCAR Mexico & Brasil Series 31:53 - Future After Racing 33:18 - Love For Soccer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
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0:25.6	Don't tell me about the problem.
0:28.6	Let's think about the solution.
0:29.6	That's a championship team.
0:30.6	Maybe we don't have the speed today
0:32.6	to be a championship team,
0:33.6	but that's the mentality that we have to have.
0:35.6	California's Kevin Hardington.
0:48.8	All right, Daniel, well, it's been very intriguing to me just to see how well that things have gone for you this year.
0:50.3	Because, you know, you look at Spire and then building the whole process and then coming
0:54.5	from Track House where I felt like it was going to be built around you and you make a change
0:59.0	and you go to Spire. What's the process been like with everything that you've done at Spire
1:04.0	this year because it seems to be a great transition for you.
1:07.0	Yeah, Kevin, you know, it's been definitely a lot of work, you know, back in November.
1:13.6	I remember when I first met with Matt McCall, with Jeff Dickerson.
1:19.6	At first, you know, we didn't know how the 17 was going to look like because I was struggling.
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