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NASCAR Cup Series at Homestead-Miami Speedway

Auto race held at Homestead, United States

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The Straight Talk Wireless 400 is a NASCAR Cup Series race held at Homestead-Miami Speedway since 1999. The race is currently held as a 267 lap, 400.5 mile (644.542 km) race.

Kyle Larson is the defending winner of the event.

01History

The inaugural race was held in 1999 in mid-November as the second to last race of the Cup series the season behind the NAPA 500 and where it would remain that way as the second to third final race of the season until 2002. In 2002, the race was made the final race in the NASCAR Cup Series season, a position it would hold until 2019, during which it was also the final race of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs from 2004 to 2019. As the season finale, it was also part of the NASCAR Championship Weekend, which consisted of two other races: the Ford EcoBoost 200 (now the Baptist Health 200) for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and the Ford EcoBoost 300 (now the Hard Rock Bet 300) for the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series.

In 2020, the race was moved from November to March after the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, meaning it no longer served as the championship race. The fall race at Phoenix Raceway, which had been the second-to-last race of the season, became the new championship race for the Cup Series. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 race ended up being postponed from the original March 15 date to June 14, 2020. In 2021, the race was held in late February as the third race of the season. In 2022, the race was moved again from February to October as the third-to-last race of the season. In 2025, the race was and was later moved to a mid-to-late March date as the sixth race of the season.

Ford ended their title sponsorship of this race and the Xfinity and Truck Series races at Homestead-Miami after they were moved from the last races of the season to March. Dixie Vodka became the title sponsor of the Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami in 2020 and remained for the next two years. In 2023, Mobil 1 became the title sponsor of this race and they decided to name the race in tribute to their driver, Kevin Harvick, as it was his final season as a full-time NASCAR driver. On May 5, 2025, it was announced that Homestead would become the championship race in 2026, replacing Phoenix.

Specific races

  • 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. In the final race with Winston sponsorship, Labonte took what would become the final win in his Hall of Fame Career.
  • 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.
  • 2016: In the last points-paying race in any of NASCAR's national touring series to be run as a single segment, Jimmie Johnson passes Kyle Larson in overtime to win the race, as well as his record-tying seventh (and last) series championship.

02Past winners

Year Date No. Driver Team Manufacturer Race distance Race time Average speed
(mph)
Report Ref
Laps Miles (km)
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) 3:08:30.730 127.480 Report
2001 November 11 9 Bill Elliott Evernham Motorsports Dodge 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:24:36.220 117.449 Report
2002 November 17 97 Kurt Busch Roush Racing Ford 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:26:20.425 116.462 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) 3:25:37.325 116.868 Report
2004 November 21 16 Greg Biffle Roush Racing Ford 271* 406.5 (654.198) 3:50:55.305 105.623 Report
2005* November 20 16 Greg Biffle Roush Racing Ford 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:02:50.205 131.932 Report
2006 November 19 16 Greg Biffle Roush Racing Ford 268* 402 (646.956) 3:12:23.555 125.375 Report
2007 November 18 17 Matt Kenseth Roush Fenway Racing Ford 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:02:12.380 131.888 Report
2008 November 16 99 Carl Edwards Roush Fenway Racing Ford 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:05:36.530 129.472 Report
2009 November 22 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:06:18.300 126.986 Report
2010 November 21 99 Carl Edwards Roush Fenway Racing Ford 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:09:50.040 126.585 Report
2011 November 20 14 Tony Stewart Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:29:00.050 114.976 Report
2012 November 18 24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 267 400.5 (644.542) 2:48:56.400 142.245 Report
2013 November 17 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:03:52.200 130.693 Report
2014 November 16 4 Kevin Harvick Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:16:31.200 122.28 Report
2015 November 22 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:02:23.260 131.755 Report
2016 November 20 48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 268* 402 (646.956) 3:07:10.650 128.869 Report
2017 November 19 78 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Racing Toyota 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:02:11.330 131.9 Report
2018* November 18 22 Joey Logano Team Penske Ford 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:00:36.590 133.056 Report
2019 November 17 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 267 400.5 (644.542) 2:48:47 142.654 Report
2020 June 14* 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:08:06.200 127.751 Report
2021 February 28* 24 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:12:45.110 124.669 Report
2022 October 23 5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:05:24.115 129.612 Report
2023 October 22 20 Christopher Bell Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:11:54.685 125.221 Report
2024 October 27 45 Tyler Reddick 23XI Racing Toyota 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:05:44.595 129.379 Report
2025 March 23 5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 267 400.5 (644.542) 3:02:13.500 131.876 Report
2026 November 8 Report

Notes

Multiple winners (drivers)

# of wins Driver Years won
3 Tony Stewart 1999, 2000, 2011
Greg Biffle 2004, 2005, 2006
Denny Hamlin 2009, 2013, 2020
2 Carl Edwards 2008, 2010
Kyle Busch 2015, 2019
Kyle Larson 2022, 2025

Multiple winners (teams)

# of wins Team Years won
9 Joe Gibbs Racing 1999, 2000, 2003, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2023
7 Roush Fenway Racing 2002, 2004-2008, 2010
5 Hendrick Motorsports 2012, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2025
2 Stewart-Haas Racing 2011, 2014

Manufacturer wins

# of wins Manufacturer Years won
8 Chevrolet 2003, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2025
Ford 2002, 2004-2008, 2010, 2018
Toyota 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024
2 Pontiac 1999, 2000
1 Dodge 2001
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