NASCAR Cup Series

Dakoda Armstrong will make his first career NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at the 1.5-mile oval of Homestead-Miami Speedway. Armstrong, who has come up through the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) has 22 career starts in NCWTS. Dakoda has one top-five, two top-10’s and an average finish of 17th in his two years of racing in the NASCAR ranks.

Miguel Paludo and the No. 32 Duroline Brakes and Components team head to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Paludo has two previous starts at the 1.5-mile Florida oval. In his two prior visits, Paludo has earned one top-10 finish, a best finish of ninth and one DNF due to an engine failure.

Like everyone else, Max Gresham was enthralled by the way last Sunday's race ended at the Phoenix International Raceway, with big wrecks, a fight and a lot of controversy surrounding the finish.

SpeedwayMedia.com editor, Ed Coombs, will recap the weekend in NASCAR and update the latest Chase Standings after Phoenix.

Allgaier's Comeback Tour: The Final Chapter - After making up nine points on fifth place two weeks ago in Texas, Justin Allgaier and the BRANDT team unfortunately took a step away from their goal in Phoenix with an 11th-place finish, setting them back seven markers. Now, it's down to the season-ending race for Allgaier and crew to make up the deficit, and cement themselves as a top-five finisher in the NASCAR Nationwide Series point standings. In the situation of a tie at the conclusion of the 200-lap event at Homestead-Miami, Allgaier would be credited with the fifth-place finish due to his win in Montreal earlier in the season.

NASCAR today announced the 2013 schedule for the NASCAR Nationwide Series, a lineup that includes a trip to Mid-Ohio for the first time in series history.

1 – driver winning race and season championship same year (Tony Stewart, 11/20/12) 1 – fewest laps led by race winner (Bobby Labonte, 11/16/03)

Kenny Wallace will pilot RAB Racing with Brack Maggard chassis No. 42 in Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. A workhorse of the RAB Racing stable, this Toyota Camry has raced 11 times in 2012, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Auto Club Speedway in March, at Texas Motor Speedway in April, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, at Michigan International Speedway and Kentucky Speedway in June, at Iowa Speedway in August, at Richmond International Raceway and Kentucky Speedway in September, and at Kansas Speedway in October.

John Wes Townley will pilot RAB Racing with Brack Maggard chassis No. 48 in Friday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. This chassis last saw action at Texas Motor Speedway earlier this month, where the 22-year-old driver posted a career-high eighth-place starting position before he piloted the No. 09 Toyota Tundra to a 16th-place finish.

Hybridlight and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) return for their third and final race of the season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Homestead-Miami Speedway with driver Scott Lagasse Jr. before embarking on no less than a 15-race schedule in 2013.