Brad Keselowski held off Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Carl Edwards on the final laps at Homestead-Miami Speedway to capture his fifth win of the season and the 17th of his NASCAR Nationwide Series career.
Coming into the night, all Austin Dillon had to do was finish 16th or better to clinch the 2011 championship. With 40 laps to go at Homestead-Miami Speedway, it was looking like that championship would be in jeopardy.
It all comes down to this, one race, three points, one NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion. 65,000+ will be on hand Sunday Evening to witness the battle between two-time Sprint Cup Series Champion, Tony Stewart, and number-one contender for the title, Carl Edwards.
The NASCAR Nationwide Series will be a part of the three day champion's weekend, at the Florida based Homestead-Miami Speedway, with Saturday's running of the Ford 300.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will be presenting their final tail gate party of the year by closing out their season with Friday night's running of the Ford 200 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Despite the excitement, and potential high level of drama, associated with Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series' finale at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, the conclusion of the 2011 Chase For The Sprint Cup Championship will actually become a case of 1-2-3.
During that Arizona weekend we witnessed a very popular driver, in the process on concluding his tenure with his present race team, return to a NASCAR Sprint Cup victory lane.
Tristan McKee (No. 77 Zeigler.com Chevrolet) scored his third ARCA Menards Series victory of the season in Friday’s Atlas 200 at Madison International Speedway.
Brandon Jones was the top-finishing Toyota with a fifth-place result in Friday’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series (NOAPS) race at Daytona International Speedway.
The 39-year-old Sieg from Tucker, Georgia, led the final two of 105 over-scheduled laps and capitalized on an overtime shootout to notch his first career victory in his 424th series start at the World Center of Racing.
The 2025 Coca-Cola 600 champion from Alva, Florida, posted a pole-winning lap at 184.396 mph in 48.808 seconds for his first Cup pole nearly two years at the World Center of Racing.