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It’s been a rapid rise for Daniel Suárez, who captured the 2016 NASCAR XFINITY Series championship Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway by winning the Ford EcoBoost 300 in only his second full-time season of NASCAR national series racing.

RYAN BLANEY – No. 22 Discount Tire Ford Mustang – YOU WERE THERE AT THE END, SO ANYTHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED. “We just got lucky at the last restart. I don’t know what the 14 was doing. He ruined a lot of guys’ Chase hopes right there. I don’t know why he did that, but luckily we just weren’t in his lane and we got a decent restart.”

Ford Championship Weekend is in full swing, and to celebrate the XFINITY Series championship race on Saturday, Homestead-Miami Speedway announced Johnathan Hillstrand, star of the show “Deadliest Catch,” as the Grand Marshall for the Ford EcoBoost 300.

Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) announced today that Tyler Reddick, a current driver and a three-time winner in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS), will pilot the No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro in multiple NASCAR XFINITY Series races in 2017. Reddick, 20, will share the No. 42 Chevrolet with 2014 NASCAR Sprint Series Rookie of the Year and 2016 member of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Kyle Larson. Veteran XFINITY Series crew chief Mike Shiplett will continue to lead the No. 42 team.

Smithley has scored eight top-20 runs in a season in which he raced on many of the Xfinity tracks for the first time. He enters Saturday’s race 18th in Xfinity points – in front of three drivers who have run the entire schedule (Smithley missed the season-opener at Daytona International Speedway).

The Xfinity Series season will end with Saturday’s Ford EcoBoost 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and Ryan Preece will be in the field in the Mizzy Construction Chevrolet.

Saturday’s Ford EcoBoost 300 will be Chastain’s seventh race at the 1.5-mile track. He has raced in two Xfinity races and four Camping World Truck Series events at Homestead, and his record includes two top-10 runs in trucks.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup, XFINITY and the Camping World Truck Series travel to Homestead-Miami Speedway this weekend for the season finale. Please check below for the complete schedule of events.

NASCAR XFINITY Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series notes; NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship race notes at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

“It’s really exciting to have the final race of the season in Florida,” explained Black. “I live just a few hours north of Miami, so I’ll have a lot of friends and family coming down for this one. Obviously, the pressure is on to run well since it is the last race of the season, but it also gives me a chance to celebrate the year and have fun with my team and family.”