Miami Preview: The Series heads to Homestead-Miami Speedway for the 2017 season finale at the 1.5-mile south Florida oval. Hamlin is a two-time winner at the track and has led the field 213 circuits around the worn-out racing surface. He’s collected four of his eight top-10 finishes at Homestead during his last four visits to the speedway, including a ninth-place finish during last year’s season finale.
The Ford EcoBoost 400 as the final race of the three-season Wood-Blaney partnership provides the bitter while the sweet is a celebration of a very successful 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series campaign.
Ford crew chiefs Rodney Childers (Stewart-Haas Racing) and Paul Wolfe (Team Penske) were guests on a NASCAR Teleconference to talk about competing for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship with respective drivers Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski. Here is a transcript of their Q&A session with the media.
Three o’clock. Racing Hour. Don’t get caught without power. Side by side watch your Roush Fenway Racing drivers ride. To the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) finale down in Miami where everyone is hoping for “no whammies.” Roush Fenway has gone to victory lane across NASCAR’s three major touring series 11 different times, at the 1.5-mile oval where drivers race on various lines.
The partnership between Team Penske and Fitzgerald Glider Kits will continue to grow in 2018, as the team announced today that Fitzgerald will become the primary sponsor on the championship-winning No. 22 Ford Mustang for the majority of next season’s NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) races.
As the 2017 season comes to a close, so does the time on the track for the Chevy SS. The SS made its on-track debut in 2013 during speed weeks in Daytona, winning the first points paying race as Jimmie Johnson took the SS to winner’s circle in the season-opening Daytona 500. Since then, the SS has gone on to win 72 more races, making it the most successful Generation-6 NASCAR race car over its competitors. The SS has carried two drivers to season-ending championship titles including Johnson to his record-tying seventh. With its stylized features and authentic showroom to race track rear-wheel drive, the SS will hold special memories over its six-year run as Chevy’s flagship in the NASCAR Cup Series. Its successor, the all-new 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 has big shoes to fill as it makes its way into the Cup Series next season.
Hendrick Motorsports drivers have earned two wins, three pole positions, 14 top-five finishes and 29 top-10s at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The first win came courtesy of Jeff Gordon in 2012 when he led the final 13 laps of the race en route to Victory Lane.
Homestead-Miami Speedway is in championship form and all eyes are set on South Florida, as the track and the local community are ready to welcome fans from all 50 states and more than 20 countries to Ford Championship Weekend, November 17-19.
Bayne will make his seventh career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) start at Homestead-Miami Speedway this weekend. Bayne’s previous best finish at Homestead is 18th in the Nov. 2015 MENCS event.
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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has been named as the Official Circuit Partner of NASCAR San Diego Weekend presented by Anduril and will serve as the naming rights partner of the soon-to-be constructed race track at Naval Base Coronado.
Ryan Blaney and the No. 12 Menards/Knauf Ford Mustang Dark Horse team took advantage of a late-race caution to come away with a 10th-place finish Sunday at Texas
