NASCAR National Series News & Notes - Homestead-Miami Speedway

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NASCAR Cup Series
Next Race: Straight Talk Wireless 400
The Place: Homestead-Miami Speedway
Track Length: 1.5 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Sunday, March 23
The Time: 3 p.m. ET
The Purse: $11,055,250
TV: FS1 & FOX Deportes, 1:30 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 400 miles (267 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 80), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 165), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 267)

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Next Race: Hard Rock Bet 300
The Place: Homestead-Miami Speedway
Track Length: 1.5 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Saturday, March 22
The Time: 4 p.m. ET
The Purse: $1,651,939
TV: CW, 3:30 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 300 miles (200 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 45), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 90), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 200)

NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
Next Race: Baptist Health 200
The Place: Homestead-Miami Speedway
Track Length: 1.5 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Friday, March 21
The Time: 8 p.m. ET
The Purse: $782,900
TV: FOX, 8 p.m. ET
Radio: NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 201 miles (134 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 30), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 60), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 134)

Where To Watch NASCAR This Week:

Friday, March 21

NCTS Kennametal Pole Qualifying (FS2 at 3:30 p.m. ET)

NCTS Race: Baptist Health 200 (FOX, NRN, SiriusXM at 8 p.m. ET)

Saturday, March 22

NXS Kennametal Pole Qualifying (The CW App at 10:30 a.m. ET)

NCS Practice and Busch Light Pole Qualifying (Amazon Prime, MRN, SiriusXM at 1 p.m. ET)

NXS Race: Hard Rock Bet 300 (The CW, MRN, SiriusXM at 4 p.m. ET)

Sunday, March 23

NCS Race: Straight Talk Wireless 400 (FS1 & FOX Deportes, MRN, SiriusXM at 3 p.m. ET)

NASCAR Cup Series

Homestead-Miami Storylines and Insights:

• This weekend marks the 27th running of a NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway (1999-2025).
• Seven different drivers won the last seven 1.5-mile Cup Series races.
• Nine different drivers won the last nine Homestead-Miami Speedway Cup Series races.
• A total of 17 Cup drivers have won the pole at Homestead-Miami. This weekend, four of the 17 NASCAR Cup Series pole winners are active, led by Denny Hamlin with three poles:

• Toyota won the pole for nine of the last 12 races on 1.5-mile tracks, including each of the last two races at Miami.
• Nine different drivers have won the first 10 stages of 2025; Kyle Larson is the only repeat stage winner this season.
• Joey Logano earned the fourth most stage points in 2025 (50), main reason he‘s eighth in points without a top-10 finish. Logano‘s best finish this season is 12th at Atlanta.
• Bubba Wallace earned 43 more stage points through five races in 2025 compared to 2024, he missed the Playoffs by 27 points in 2024
• William Byron leads the point standings by 29 points over second place Christopher Bell following Las Vegas.
• William Byron is the only driver to lead in every race this season, it is the second time in the last four seasons that Byron led in each of the first five races (2022).
• William Byron led in the last seven races, tied for his longest streak of races led set in 2019.
• Kyle Larson‘s 12 stage wins on 1.5-mile tracks in the Next Gen car lead all drivers, no other driver has more than five.
• Kyle Larson‘s 1,286 laps led on 1.5-mile tracks in the Next Gen car, nearly double the next closest driver (Bell — 614).
• The driver leading the most laps won six of the last seven Homestead-Miami Speedway Cup Series races.
• The last three Miami races were held in October, the last Spring race at Miami was in 2021.
• Only one of the last 18 races at Homestead-Miami ended in overtime. In total, three Cup races at Homestead-Miami have ended in overtime: 2004, 2006, 2016.
• A total of 18 Cup drivers have won at Homestead-Miami. This weekend, seven of the 18 are active, led by Denny Hamlin with three wins:

• Christopher Bell can become only the third driver in Cup Series history to win four of the first six races in a season (Bill Elliott — 1992, Dale Earnhardt — 1987).
• Hendrick Motorsports drivers led 54% of the laps raced at Homestead-Miami in the Next Gen car (434 of 801).
• Ryan Blaney finished runner-up in the last two races at Homestead-Miami, he is the only driver to finish runner-up at Homestead-Miami more than once without a win.
• Kyle Larson has led 626 laps at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the most of all Cup Series drivers.
• Kyle Larson‘s only Homestead-Miami win came in 2022 after leading 199 of the 267 laps, he finished 13th last year after spinning from second on Lap 255 and finished 34th in 2023 after hitting the sand barrels coming to pit road on Lap 213 after leading 96 laps prior.
• AJ Allmendinger finished top-10 in the last three Homestead-Miami Cup races, the longest active streak.
• AJ Allmendinger and Christopher Bell have the best average finish at Miami in the NextGen car (5.3).
• The pass for the win came in the final six laps in three of the last six 1.5-mile races including two last lap passes.
• The NASCAR Cup Series races at Homestead-Miami Speedway have had a last lap pass for the lead to win the race twice: 2003 (Bobby Labonte passed Bill Elliott) and 2024 (Tyler Reddick passed Ryan Blaney).
• The 33 lead changes at Homestead-Miami last year set a new track record, each of the last three laps was led by a different driver.
• 2025 is the fifth straight year that at least one driver (William Byron) led in each of the first five races of the season.
• 2025 is the first season since 2019 there wasn‘t a repeat pole winner through the first five races.
• 2025 is the first time since 2003 that five different teams won the pole in the first five races of the season.
• A stage winner went on to win once this season (Christopher Bell — stage 2 at Phoenix), the fewest ever through five races.
• Through five races, the Wood Brothers have their most top fives since 2002 (two), and most laps led since 1982 (74).
• The Wood Brothers won in consecutive seasons (2024, 2025) for the first time since 1986 and 1987.
• Josh Berry accounts for two of Ford‘s five top-five finishes in 2025 including the only win.
• Berry became the first driver to win their first career Cup race at Phoenix last weekend, no driver has won their first career Cup race at Homestead-Miami.
• Joey Logano‘s 247 laps led in 2025 is the most ever through five races by a driver without a top-10 finish (in those five races)
• Joey Logano is the first defending champion to fail to earn a top-10 finish in the first five races of the following season
• Ty Gibbs earned 37 fewer stage points in 2025 through five races compared to 2024, the biggest decline among all drivers.
• Seven full-time drivers don‘t have stage points this season, two are JGR drivers (T. Gibbs and C. Briscoe).
• William Byron is the first driver since Kevin Harvick in 2020 with 11 top 6 finishes in a 12 race stretch.
• John Hunter Nemechek finished on the lead lap in the last five races, his longest streak ever in Cup.
• Brad Keselowski will become the 17th driver to make 550 consecutive Cup starts this weekend, and second among active drivers (Joey Logano — 581)
• Justin Haley and Chase Briscoe will both be making their 150^th career NASCAR Cup Series starts this weekend at Homestead-Miami.

NASCAR Xfinity Series

Homestead-Miami Storylines and Insights:

• This weekend will be the 32nd running of a NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway (1995-2025).
• Homestead-Miami Speedway is the first Dash 4 Cash race.
• Homestead-Miami Dash 4 Cash drivers: #2 Jesse Love, #7 Justin Allgaier, #21 Austin Hill, #41 Sam Mayer.
• Last seven NASCAR Xfinity Series races on 1.5-mile tracks were won by seven different drivers.
• Justin Allgaier‘s win at Las Vegas marked his ninth straight season with a win, tying Kyle Busch and Mark Martin for the most all time.
• Justin Allgaier leads the NASCAR Xfinity Series point standings by 19 points over second place Jesse Love.
• Richard Childress Racing‘s next win will be their 100th in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Only two other teams won at least 100 NXS races (Joe Gibbs Racing-215, Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing-138)
• Kyle Larson is driving Hendrick Motorsports‘ #17, which finished second in both starts this season.
• Stage 1 has been caution free the last two years in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Homestead-Miami.
• The polesitter is winless the last five Xfinity Series races at Homestead-Miami.
• Zero former Xfinity Series Homestead-Miami pole winners are entered this weekend.
• Only four of the 31 Homestead-Miami Xfinity Series races have finished in overtime, only two of the last 11.
• Four drivers have a series leading three top-five finishes in 2025 (Mayer, Hill, Allgaier, Almirola), Mayer is the only one without a win this season.
• Justin Allgaier and Jesse Love are the only drivers to finish on the lead lap in all five Xfinity Series races of 2025.
• Ryan Sieg and Jesse Love are they only drivers to score top-20 finishes in all five Xfinity Series races of 2025.
• Only one of the last 13 1.5 mile track Xfinity Series races have had a caution in the final 10 laps.
• The driver leading the most laps has won seven of the last nine Xfinity Series races.
• Chevrolet has won the last four Homestead-Miami Xfinity Series races.
• In the Xfinity Series, Chevrolet has led 644 of 762 laps this season (84.5%).
• Sam Mayer scored 23 more stage points through five races than he did last year, the biggest improvement of any full-time driver.
• Justin Bonsignore will drive the No. 19 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing this weekend, making his third career Xfinity start. This weekend will mark his second of nine scheduled starts in 2025 and his first on a 1.5-mile track.
• Justin Bonsignore is second on the all-time NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour wins list with 45 victories and is one of only four drivers with four or more NASCAR Modified Tour championships.
• Homestead-Miami has been moved out of the Playoffs for the first time since 2021.
• There are no multi-time Homestead-Miami winners in the field (Larson, H. Burton, Mayer, Hill and Snider all have one win).
• Five different drivers have won the Xfinity Fastest Lap of the Race through the first five Xfinity Series races of the season: Jeremy Clements (Daytona), Christian Eckes (Atlanta), Carson Kvapil (COTA), Justin Allgaier (Phoenix) and Connor Zilisch (Las Vegas).

Xfinity Dash 4 Cash Rundown:

• 2025 is the 17th season of Dash 4 Cash in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
• Homestead-Miami is the first of four Dash 4 Cash races in 2025: Homestead-Miami, Martinsville, Bristol and Rockingham.
• Homestead-Miami Dash 4 Cash drivers: #2 Jesse Love, #7 Justin Allgaier, #21 Austin Hill, #41 Sam Mayer
• Of this weekend‘s Dash 4 Cash drivers only two are former Dash 4 Cash winners: Justin Allgaier (five bonus money wins) and Sam Mayer (two).
• The best finishing of the four Dash 4 Cash drivers will win a $100,000 bonus.
• $5,925,000 awarded since the start of the Dash 4 Cash program in 2009.
• Justin Allgaier, Elliott Sadler and Noah Gragson lead all drivers with five Dash 4 Cash bonus money wins.
• 2024 Dash 4 Cash Winners: Martinsville (Aric Almirola), Texas (Sam Mayer), Talladega (Ryan Sieg), Dover (Anthony Alfredo).

NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series

Homestead-Miami Storylines and Insights:

• 2025 will mark the 29th time the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series has competed at Homestead-Miami Speedway (starting in 1996).
• Ty Majeski leads the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series standings by five points over Corey Heim in second following Las Vegas.
• The last 10 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races at Homestead-Miami have produced 10 different winners.
• The Stage 2 winner at Homestead-Miami has gone on to win four of the last six races at Homestead-Miami.
• There have been 70 lead changes in 2025 with 35 leaders, the most through three races in CRAFTSMAN Truck Series history.
• Corey Heim became the youngest driver to reach 13 wins last week at Las Vegas (22 years old).
• Corey Heim has won double the races of any other driver since the start of 2024.
• Corey Heim won three of the last five 1.5-mile races in the Truck Series.
• Corey Heim has led the most laps in the last five 1.5-mile races in the Truck Series.
• Corey Heim has won six of the last eight rain-effected Truck races including the last four.
• Corey Heim has led 504 laps on 1.5-mile tracks since joining the Truck Series full-time in 2023, nearly double that of any other driver.
• Six different drivers have won the six stages this season.
• Matt Crafton was in 93% of the 1.5-mile races in series history (200 of 216), won at Homestead-Miami in 2015.
• Homestead-Miami is the second of five conventional 1.5-mile tracks on the 2025 schedule. All five are in a nine-race stretch. The five races on 1.5-mile tracks in 2025 is the fewest in a Truck Series season since 2000.
• 2025 is the first season without a 1.5-mile track in the CRAFTSMAN Truck Playoffs.
• 15 drivers DNF‘d through the first three races this year are the fewest in series history.
• The last 17 races ended at the scheduled distance, the second longest streak without overtime, the record is 20 races.
• Layne Riggs was passed for the win in the last two 1.5-mile races.
• Grant Enfinger finished top-10 in the last eight races, tying his longest Truck top-10 streak set in 2019 (he won at Miami last year)
• This is the earliest that Miami has been in the season since 2001, the seventh time Miami has been in the first four races.
• Kyle Larson is running all three NASCAR races at Miami, Kyle Busch is the only driver to sweep all 3 races in a weekend, Bristol 2010 and 2017. This is Larson‘s third time running all three races at Miami, finished top-10 in all three in 2016, was runner up in Trucks, 7th in NXS and 4th in Cup.
• Kyle Larson — Three Truck Series wins in 15 starts, won at Homestead-Miami in Xfinity Series and Cup Series, running all three NASCAR national series races this weekend.
• Ross Chastain — Five Truck Series wins, top three finishes in all three series at Homestead-Miami but never won.
• Brandon Jones — One Truck Series win (Pocono) in 49 starts, two runner up finishes at Homestead-Miami in the Xfinity Series.
• Michel Disdier, from Nice, France — Three Truck Series starts in his career, last was 2018. Best finish of 11th at Daytona.
• Four countries will be represented in this weekend‘s CRAFTSMAN Truck race — United States, Mexico, Canada and France.
• Triple Truck Challenge starts at Martinsville, the race after Miami, win one race win $50K, two $150K, all three $500K bonus.

NASCAR & Homestead-Miami, Etc.

Historical & Significant Events at Homestead-Miami Speedway:

• Groundbreaking for Homestead-Miami Dade Motorsports Complex — as the track was originally named — began August 23, 1994, thanks to Ralph Sanchez, a long-time promotor of street races in the area.
• The 600-acre sporting facility, at the time of construction, was owned by city of Homestead on county land and was leased by Sanchez.
• The original configuration of Homestead-Miami Speedway was a four-turn, rectangular paved oval based on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s layout.
• The first race held at Homestead-Miami Speedway was a NASCAR Xfinity Series event on November 5, 1995. NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett won the inaugural Xfinity Series race. Jarrett owned the No. 32 Ford he won the race in, and Jarrett only led the last two laps of the event. The average speed of the race was 92.229 MPH.
• The first NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway was held on November 14, 1999. The inaugural Cup Series race was won by NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart, driving a Joe Gibbs Racing Pontiac. The average speed of the race was 140.335 MPH.
• International Speedway Corporation (now NASCAR) became the sole owner of Homestead-Miami Speedway in 2001.
• The 2002 season was the first year the Championship Weekend was held at Homestead-Miami Speedway, with all three of NASCAR‘s national series holding their season finale at the same track. The track would host the season finale from 2002-2019.
• In 2003, the track underwent a major reconfiguration from what was a flat 1.5-mile rectangular-shaped track to a 1.5-mile asphalt oval with progressive banking in the turns.
• The 2019 season was the last time all three NASCAR national series held the Championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
• At 25 degree longitude, Miami is the southernmost track that NASCAR visits within the United States. Mexico City is at 19 degree longitude.

Latest Homestead-Miami Speedway Storylines:

• Homestead-Miami Speedway announced that Miami Dolphins edge rusher Bradley Chubb has been named the grand marshal for the Straight Talk Wireless 400. The two-time veteran Pro Bowl star will fire up the South Florida fans with the most famous words in motorsports before an epic on-track battle between the NASCAR Cup Series drivers on Sunday, March 23.
• Grammy Award-winner and urban superstar Wisin will help the Straight Talk Wireless 400 get started on a high note as he leads the field to green as the honorary pace car driver, while the iconic Cuban duo Gente de Zona brings an impactful legacy in Cuban music to the track as honorary event officials, Homestead-Miami Speedway has announced. Juan Luis Morera Luna, known as Wisin, helped pioneer the style of reggaeton, collaborating with legends such as Jennifer Lopez, 50 Cent, T-Pain and Enrique Iglesias. With more than 22 No. 1 hits on Billboard‘s Latin Airplay chart, and 1.5 billion streams in the United States alone, Wisin‘s popularization of reggaeton has united generations.

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