NASCAR Cup Series at Homestead–Miami

Dixie Vodka 400
NASCAR Cup Series
Venue	Homestead-Miami Speedway
Location	Homestead, Florida, United States
Corporate sponsor	Dixie Vodka
First race	1999
Distance	400.5 miles (644.542 km)
Laps	267; Stages 1/2: 80 each; Final stage: 107
Previous names	Pennzoil 400 (1999–2000); Pennzoil Freedom 400 (2001); Ford 400 (2002–2011); Ford EcoBoost 400 (2012-2019)
Most wins (driver)	Greg Biffle; Tony Stewart (3)
Most wins (team)	Roush Fenway Racing; Joe Gibbs Racing (7)
Most wins (manufacturer)	Ford (8)
Circuit information
Surface	Asphalt
Length	1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Turns	4

The Dixie Vodka 400 is a NASCAR Cup Series race held at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. The inaugural race was held in 1999, and was the final race in the NASCAR Cup Series from 2002 until 2019, as well as the final race of the NASCAR Cup Series' Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs from 2004 to 2019. As the season finale, it was also part of the Ford Championship Weekend, which consisted of two other races, the Ford EcoBoost 200 for the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series and the Ford EcoBoost 300 for the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The race is contested over 267 laps, 400.5 miles (644.542 km). Kyle Busch is the defending winner of the event, having won the race and 2019 Cup championship.

In 2020, the race will be held in mid-March after the Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, meaning it will no longer serve as a championship race as the Fall race at Phoenix Raceway will instead be the championship race and the race will be sponsored by Dixie Vodka making it the Dixie Vodka 400.^[1]

Past winners

Year	Date	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Race distance		Race time	Average speed (mph)	Report
Year	Date	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Miles (km)	Race time	Average speed (mph)	Report
Second 1.5 mile Layout (6 degree corner banking)
1999	November 14	20	Tony Stewart	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac	267	400.5 (644.542)	2:51:14	140.335	Report
2000	November 12	20	Tony Stewart	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:08:30	127.480	Report
2001	November 11	9	Bill Elliott	Evernham Motorsports	Dodge	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:24:36	117.449	Report
2002*	November 17	97	Kurt Busch	Roush Racing	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:26:20	116.462	Report
Current 1.5 mile Layout (18 to 20 degree progressive corner banking)
2003*	November 16	18	Bobby Labonte	Joe Gibbs Racing	Chevrolet	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:25:37	116.868	Report
2004	November 21	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Racing	Ford	271*	406.5 (654.198)	3:50:55	105.623	Report
2005*	November 20	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Racing	Ford*	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:02:50	131.932	Report
2006	November 19	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Racing	Ford	268*	402 (646.956)	3:12:23	125.375	Report
2007	November 18	17	Matt Kenseth	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:02:12	131.888	Report
2008	November 16	99	Carl Edwards	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:05:36	129.472	Report
2009	November 22	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:06:18	126.986	Report
2010	November 21	99	Carl Edwards	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:09:50	126.585	Report
2011	November 20	14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:29:00	114.976	Report
2012	November 18	24	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	400.5 (644.542)	2:48:56	142.245	Report
2013	November 17	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:03:52	130.693	Report
2014	November 16	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:16:31	122.28	Report
2015	November 22	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:02:23	131.755	Report
2016	November 20	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	268*	402 (646.956)	3:07:10	128.869	Report
2017	November 19	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:02:11	131.9	Report
2018	November 18	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford*	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:00:36	133.056	Report
2019	November 17	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	400.5 (644.542)	2:48:47	142.654	Report
2020	March 22									Report

1999: Dale Jarrett clinched the championship with one race remaining by finishing 5th.
1999: Flat layout race record time and average race speed.
2000: Bobby Labonte clinched the championship with one race remaining by finishing 4th.
2004, 2006, and 2016: Race extended due to a NASCAR Overtime finish.
2005: First race run under the lights, after being installed during the summer. Ford's last win with the Taurus before switching to the Fusion in 2006
2011: Tony Stewart becomes the only driver (so far) to win on both layouts.
2016: Jimmie Johnson by winning the race wins his record tying 7th championship.
2018: Ford's last win with the Fusion as they switched to the Mustang in the Cup Series in 2019.
2019: Current layout race record time and average race speed.

Multiple winners (drivers)

# of wins	Driver	Years won
3	Greg Biffle	2004, 2005, 2006
3	Tony Stewart	1999, 2000, 2011
2	Carl Edwards	2008, 2010
	Denny Hamlin	2009, 2013
	Kyle Busch	2015, 2019

Multiple winners (teams)

# of wins	Team	Years won
7	Roush Fenway Racing	2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
7	Joe Gibbs Racing	1999, 2000, 2003, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2019
2	Stewart-Haas Racing	2011, 2014
2	Hendrick Motorsports	2012, 2016

Manufacturer wins

# of wins	Manufacturer	Years won
8	Ford	2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2018
5	Chevrolet	2003, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016
5	Toyota	2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
2	Pontiac	1999, 2000
1	Dodge	2001

Race summaries

1999: Rookie Tony Stewart wins the inaugural event, and sets the record for most wins by a rookie in the modern era with his 3rd win, with Dale Jarrett clinching the 1999 Winston Cup Championship.
2000: Stewart made it 2-for-2 as he won the race, with his teammate Bobby Labonte clinching the 2000 Winston Cup Championship.
2001: Bill Elliott's 41st career win snapped his 226 race winless streak, the longest streak in between race wins, dating back to the 1994 Mountain Dew Southern 500 at Darlington.
2002: In the final race on the old configuration, Kurt Busch drove to his 4th win in a rain-delayed event, and Stewart won his 1st title.
2003: In the first on a newly reconfigured track, Bobby Labonte's win was marked by a flat tire for leader Bill Elliott on the last lap. Matt Kenseth went on to clinch his 1st championship, and was the final race with Winston sponsorship. The win would turn out to be Labonte’s last in his Hall of Fame Career.
2004: Fourteen cautions plagued the first race in which it was the final Chase event, and Greg Biffle held off Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon in a Green-White-Checkered finish to win his first of three-consecutive races, while his teammate Kurt Busch won the title by 8 points over Johnson.
2005: In the first night race at the track, Greg Biffle dueled teammate Mark Martin over the final 7 laps to edge Martin for the win by 0.017 of a second. Roush ended up with a sweep of the Top 4 spots (Kenseth was 3rd and Edwards 4th), and Stewart won his 2nd title. Greg Biffle's win was his 6th win of the season and he and teammate Carl Edwards were tied for second with both of them 35 points behind Stewart, but Biffle got second thanks to his six wins vs. Edwards four.
2006: Greg Biffle scores his third-consecutive win, and completes the hat-trick for Roush. Mark Martin won the Truck event, Kenseth won the Busch race, and then Biffle winning the Cup event. Jimmie Johnson scores his first of five consecutive Cup titles.
2007: Last race with the fourth-generation car. Matt Kenseth leads 214 of the 267 laps to score the final win before the COT went full-time in 2008, while Johnson goes back to back. It was also the last race Cup series race under Nextel sponsorship.
2008: Carl Edwards scored his 9th win of the season, but came up 16 points short of Jimmie Johnson for the Cup title as he stressed his last tank of fuel to the finish, and Johnson tying Cale Yarborough's record of three-consecutive NASCAR Cup Series titles.
2009: Denny Hamlin wins from the furthest back anyone has at the track from 38th to his first win at the track, and Jimmie Johnson scores his record-setting 4th consecutive Championship.
2010: Denny Hamlin came in with a slim lead and lost it after an early race spin. Carl Edwards led a whopping 190 laps on his way to winning the final two races of the season, but Jimmie Johnson scored his inconceivable 5th consecutive Championship.
2011: Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards finished first and second in the race and in the NASCAR Cup Series point standings, Stewart winning the latter due to a tiebreaker.
2012: Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship, his first Cup title, and giving Dodge a going away gift. Jeff Gordon won the race beating Clint Bowyer who both fought the week before at Phoenix after crashing on fuel mileage, his first win at Homestead-Miami Speedway, leaving only Kentucky Speedway as the only track he failed to win at in his career. This was also Dodge's last race for the foreseeable future, as they stopped in the NASCAR Cup Series after 2012.
2013: Denny Hamlin ended a miserable 2013 by winning for the second time at Homestead, and Jimmie Johnson scoring his 6th-career Cup title.
2014: With the new Chase Grid format where the top 4 in points have a shot at the title, the race became known as the Championship Round race, and whoever finished the highest would win the Championship. Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, and Ryan Newman were the ones who would have the shot at the title. At one point, all 4 drivers were running 1st–4th, but the race was dominated by pole-sitter Jeff Gordon, who led 160 laps. Due to pit strategy, and crazy restarts, Harvick found himself battling Newman in on a restart with 3 laps to go. Harvick and the #4 pulled off what his boss Tony Stewart did 3 years prior, a Stewart-Haas Racing driver winning both the race and the Championship, with Kevin Harvick becoming the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion. Newman would finish second, Hamlin seventh, and Logano 16th due to the jack slipping on a late pit stop.
2015: With Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon, and Martin Truex Jr. being the 4 Chase drivers going for the title, for the second year in a row, and for the third time in the last five years, a driver won both the race and the championship. This time, it was Joe Gibbs Racing's Kyle Busch, who became the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion despite missing the first 11 races of the season due to an injury to his leg and foot that he suffered in a wreck during the first Xfinity Series race of the season at Daytona International Speedway, by holding off defending and 2014 NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kevin Harvick in a 7-lap shootout. Also, Jeff Gordon finished sixth in his final NASCAR Cup Series start before retiring from racing full-time and moving into the Fox NASCAR broadcast booth for the 2016 season, leading 9 laps early. Truex Jr. would wind up finishing 12th, with the Penske guys of Keselowski and Logano being the dominators of the race leading 86 and 72 laps respectively.
2016: This race was the last one under the Sprint brand before Monster Energy would take over for 2017 and beyond. Not only that, it was the last race for Carl Edwards, three-time champion Tony Stewart, Brian Scott who had scored his best career finish of second, earlier in the Hellmann's 500 and Greg Biffle. Defending champion Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Carl Edwards and six-time champion (entering the day) Jimmie Johnson entered as the four who would compete for the title. Kyle Larson (who was eliminated in the Round of 16) dominated the day, leading 132 laps. On a restart within the final laps, Edwards attempted to block an advancing Logano, but hooked himself into Logano's bumper, sending him careening back into traffic and hard into the outside wall, with the car becoming airborne briefly. Then, Logano came up into his teammate Brad Keselowski and Martin Truex Jr., with Truex's car catching fire. After a lengthy red flag for cleanup, another quick caution came out when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spun coming onto the backstretch, despite NASCAR's best attempts to keep the race going. On an overtime finish, Johnson blasted by Larson and held off Logano to hoist his 7th crown (4th time in 6 years the champion won the finale race), tying him with Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty for most all-time in NASCAR's premiere division while Carl Edwards had seemingly raced his last race.
2017: For the fourth time using the format, the Championship 4 drivers were Keselowski, Harvick, Kyle Busch, and Martin Truex Jr. For the second straight year, Kyle Larson led the most laps (145) and won the first two stages (NASCAR's new stage format) at laps 80 and 160. A final green flag run saw Truex Jr. and Busch running 1-2 riding up against the wall, with Truex Jr. winning the race over Busch and scoring his first Championship after leading 78 laps in the 78 car.
2018: All throughout the season, three drivers dominated the races. They were Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, and Martin Truex Jr. dubbed the BIG 3. All of them advanced to Homestead to compete for the title, with Joey Logano being the fourth driver and underdog to win the title. Truex Jr. looked like he was going to win it two years in a row in his final race for Furniture Row Motorsports (which was shutting down at the end of the season). A late race caution with less than 20 laps left spoiled a race that was quiet, but was a break for Kyle Busch who was off sequence in a desperate move to keep his hopes alive. Logano's crew got him out second behind Busch, and on the restart zipped past Busch but not before Truex did. With 12 laps to go, he closed in and got around Truex Jr. with a power move on the outside to pull away to the win and his first Cup championship six years to the day his teammate Keselowski won his. Not only was it the fifth-straight year the driver won the race and title, but all four Championship 4 drivers swept the Top 4 finishing positions: Logano-1st, Truex Jr.-2nd, Harvick-3rd, and Kyle Busch-4th. Logano also led a race-high 80 laps to become the first driver to lead the most laps and win the race since Carl Edwards back in 2010.

Television broadcasters

NBC had televised the race from 1999 to 2006, and was the only race carried by the network for the first two years as TV contracts were negotiated on a track-by-track basis until the 2001 season. ABC televised the race from 2007 to 2009. From 2010-2014 ESPN, who was also a broadcasting partner with ABC, televised the race. The race returned to NBC in 2015. Fox will be broadcasting this race starting in 2020.

Year	Network	Lap-by-lap	Color commentator(s)
1999	NBC	Allen Bestwick	Joe Gibbs Mike Wallace
2000			Benny Parsons
2001			Benny Parsons Wally Dallenbach
2002
2003
2004
2005		Bill Weber
2006		Bill Weber
2007	ABC	Jerry Punch	Rusty Wallace Andy Petree
2008			Dale Jarrett Andy Petree
2009
2010	ESPN	Marty Reid
2011		Allen Bestwick
2012
2013
2014
2015	NBC	Rick Allen	Jeff Burton Steve Letarte
2016
2017
2018			Jeff Burton Steve Letarte Dale Earnhardt Jr.
2019			Jeff Burton Steve Letarte Dale Earnhardt Jr.
2020	Fox	Mike Joy	Jeff Gordon

References

^ "Dixie Vodka to be Entitlement Sponsor of Homestead-Miami Speedway's 2020 NASCAR Cup Series Race". Homestead–Miami Speedway. November 13, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2020.

External links

Previous race: Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500	NASCAR Cup Series Dixie Vodka 400	Next race: O'Reilly Auto Parts 500

[1] "Dixie Vodka to be Entitlement Sponsor of Homestead-Miami Speedway's 2020 NASCAR Cup Series Race". Homestead–Miami Speedway. November 13, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2020.

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