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NASCAR Xfinity Series News & Notes – Homestead-Miami Speedway

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Next Race: Hard Rock Bet 300
The Place: Homestead-Miami Speedway
Track Length: 1.5 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Saturday, March 22
The Time: 4 p.m. ET
The Purse: $1,651,939
TV: CW, 3:30 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 300 miles (200 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 45),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 90), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 200)

Where To Watch NASCAR This Week:

Friday, March 21

NCTS Kennametal Pole Qualifying (FS2 at 3:30 p.m. ET)

NCTS Race: Baptist Health 200 (FOX, NRN, SiriusXM at 8 p.m. ET)

Saturday, March 22

NXS Kennametal Pole Qualifying (The CW App at 10:30 a.m. ET)

NCS Practice and Busch Light Pole Qualifying (Amazon Prime, MRN, SiriusXM at 1 p.m. ET)

NXS Race: Hard Rock Bet 300 (The CW, MRN, SiriusXM at 4 p.m. ET)

Sunday, March 23

NCS Race: Straight Talk Wireless 400 (FS1 & FOX Deportes, MRN, SiriusXM at 3 p.m. ET)

Homestead-Miami Storylines and Insights:

  • This weekend will be the 32nd running of a NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway (1995-2025).
  • Homestead-Miami Speedway is the first Dash 4 Cash race.
  • Homestead-Miami Dash 4 Cash drivers: #2 Jesse Love, #7 Justin Allgaier, #21 Austin Hill, #41 Sam Mayer.
  • Last seven NASCAR Xfinity Series races on 1.5-mile tracks were won by seven different drivers.
  • Justin Allgaier’s win at Las Vegas marked his ninth straight season with a win, tying Kyle Busch and Mark Martin for the most all time.
  • Justin Allgaier leads the NASCAR Xfinity Series point standings by 19 points over second place Jesse Love.
  • Richard Childress Racing’s next win will be their 100th in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Only two other teams won at least 100 NXS races (Joe Gibbs Racing-215, Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing-138)
  • Kyle Larson is driving Hendrick Motorsports’ #17, which finished second in both starts this season.
  • Stage 1 has been caution free the last two years in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Homestead-Miami.
  • The polesitter is winless the last five Xfinity Series races at Homestead-Miami.
  • Zero former Xfinity Series Homestead-Miami pole winners are entered this weekend.
  • Only four of the 31 Homestead-Miami Xfinity Series races have finished in overtime, only two of the last 11.
  • Four drivers have a series leading three top-five finishes in 2025 (Mayer, Hill, Allgaier, Almirola), Mayer is the only one without a win this season.
  • Justin Allgaier and Jesse Love are the only drivers to finish on the lead lap in all five Xfinity Series races of 2025.
  • Ryan Sieg and Jesse Love are they only drivers to score top-20 finishes in all five Xfinity Series races of 2025.
  • Only one of the last 13 1.5 mile track Xfinity Series races have had a caution in the final 10 laps.
  • The driver leading the most laps has won seven of the last nine Xfinity Series races.
  • Chevrolet has won the last four Homestead-Miami Xfinity Series races.
  • In the Xfinity Series, Chevrolet has led 644 of 762 laps this season (84.5%).
  • Sam Mayer scored 23 more stage points through five races than he did last year, the biggest improvement of any full-time driver.
  • Justin Bonsignore will drive the No. 19 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing this weekend, making his third career Xfinity start. This weekend will mark his second of nine scheduled starts in 2025 and his first on a 1.5-mile track.
  • Justin Bonsignore is second on the all-time NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour wins list with 45 victories and is one of only four drivers with four or more NASCAR Modified Tour championships.
  • Homestead-Miami has been moved out of the Playoffs for the first time since 2021.
  • There are no multi-time Homestead-Miami winners in the field (Larson, H. Burton, Mayer, Hill and Snider all have one win).
  • Five different drivers have won the Xfinity Fastest Lap of the Race through the first five Xfinity Series races of the season: Jeremy Clements (Daytona), Christian Eckes (Atlanta), Carson Kvapil (COTA), Justin Allgaier (Phoenix) and Connor Zilisch (Las Vegas).

Xfinity Dash 4 Cash Rundown:

  • 2025 is the 17th season of Dash 4 Cash in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
  • Homestead-Miami is the first of four Dash 4 Cash races in 2025: Homestead-Miami, Martinsville, Bristol and Rockingham.
  • Homestead-Miami Dash 4 Cash drivers: #2 Jesse Love, #7 Justin Allgaier, #21 Austin Hill, #41 Sam Mayer
  • Of this weekend’s Dash 4 Cash drivers only two are former Dash 4 Cash winners: Justin Allgaier (five bonus money wins) and Sam Mayer (two).
  • The best finishing of the four Dash 4 Cash drivers will win a $100,000 bonus.
  • $5,925,000 awarded since the start of the Dash 4 Cash program in 2009.
  • Justin Allgaier, Elliott Sadler and Noah Gragson lead all drivers with five Dash 4 Cash bonus money wins.
  • 2024 Dash 4 Cash Winners: Martinsville (Aric Almirola), Texas (Sam Mayer), Talladega (Ryan Sieg), Dover (Anthony Alfredo).

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Historical & Significant Events at Homestead-Miami Speedway:

  • Groundbreaking for Homestead-Miami Dade Motorsports Complex – as the track was originally named – began August 23, 1994, thanks to Ralph Sanchez, a long-time promotor of street races in the area.
  • The 600-acre sporting facility, at the time of construction, was owned by city of Homestead on county land and was leased by Sanchez.
  • The original configuration of Homestead-Miami Speedway was a four-turn, rectangular paved oval based on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s layout.
  • The first race held at Homestead-Miami Speedway was a NASCAR Xfinity Series event on November 5, 1995. NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett won the inaugural Xfinity Series race. Jarrett owned the No. 32 Ford he won the race in, and Jarrett only led the last two laps of the event. The average speed of the race was 92.229 MPH.
  • The first NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway was held on November 14, 1999. The inaugural Cup Series race was won by NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart, driving a Joe Gibbs Racing Pontiac. The average speed of the race was 140.335 MPH.
  • International Speedway Corporation (now NASCAR) became the sole owner of Homestead-Miami Speedway in 2001.
  • The 2002 season was the first year the Championship Weekend was held at Homestead-Miami Speedway, with all three of NASCAR’s national series holding their season finale at the same track. The track would host the season finale from 2002-2019.
  • In 2003, the track underwent a major reconfiguration from what was a flat 1.5-mile rectangular-shaped track to a 1.5-mile asphalt oval with progressive banking in the turns.
  • The 2019 season was the last time all three NASCAR national series held the Championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
  • At 25 degree longitude, Miami is the southernmost track that NASCAR visits within the United States. Mexico City is at 19 degree longitude.

Latest Homestead-Miami Speedway Storylines:

  • Homestead-Miami Speedway announced that Miami Dolphins edge rusher Bradley Chubb has been named the grand marshal for the Straight Talk Wireless 400. The two-time veteran Pro Bowl star will fire up the South Florida fans with the most famous words in motorsports before an epic on-track battle between the NASCAR Cup Series drivers on Sunday, March 23.
  • Grammy Award-winner and urban superstar Wisin will help the Straight Talk Wireless 400 get started on a high note as he leads the field to green as the honorary pace car driver, while the iconic Cuban duo Gente de Zona brings an impactful legacy in Cuban music to the track as honorary event officials, Homestead-Miami Speedway has announced. Juan Luis Morera Luna, known as Wisin, helped pioneer the style of reggaeton, collaborating with legends such as Jennifer Lopez, 50 Cent, T-Pain and Enrique Iglesias. With more than 22 No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart, and 1.5 billion streams in the United States alone, Wisin’s popularization of reggaeton has united generations.
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