Homestead Miami Speedway

Homestead-Miami Speedway
1995–1996: Metro-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex

Address: 1 Speedway Blvd. Homestead Florida 33035
Homestead , Florida , USA
Route type:	permanent race track
Owner:	International Speedway Corporation
Operator:	International Speedway Corporation
Building-costs:	70 million US dollars
Start of building:	August 24, 1993
Opening:	November 5, 1995
Speedway oval
oval
Route data
Important events:	Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 NASCAR Xfinity Series Ford EcoBoost 300 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Ford EcoBoost 200
Route length:	2.406  km (1.5  mi )
Curves:	Curves: 20 °, straight lines: 3 °
Audience capacity:	65,000
Street course
Road course
Route data
Route length:	3.7  km (2.3  mi )
http://www.homesteadmiamispeedway.com

Coordinates: 25 ° 27 ′ 6 ″  N , 80 ° 24 ′ 31 ″  W.

The Homestead-Miami Speedway is a racetrack in Homestead in the US state of Florida , southwest of Miami . The Ford Championship Weekend takes place there, the last races of the season of the NASCAR Sprint Cup , the Xfinity Series and the Camping World Truck Series . Since these are all sponsored by Ford , the races are accordingly called Ford 400 , Ford 300 and Ford 200 .

The speedway was constructed with the help of promoter Ralph Sanchez as part of Homestead's rebuilding plan after being destroyed by Hurricane Andrew . Construction began on August 24, 1993, less than a year after the hurricane. It opened in November 1995 with a NASCAR Nationwide Series race. In the spring of 1996, the Champ Car series held its first race on this track.

The facility is considered one of the most beautiful in the USA. Though southwest of Miami, the circuit reflects the Art Deco district of Miami with the generous use of colors such as cyan, purple, and silver.

Still, the races at Homestead weren't very good at the beginning. When it opened, its layout was the same as that of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with its four corners and a rectangular oval. The tight, flat bends and the base of the bends made overtaking difficult and reduced speeds. The route geometry also made for unfavorable and serious steering angles in the event of an accident. In 1996 the management tried to correct these problems by widening the curves and bases by about 8 meters. In the summer of 1997, the entire route layout was reconfigured for 8.2 million US dollars, in which the quad oval was changed into a traditional, continuous oval.

In 2003 the route was reconfigured again. The very flat curves have been converted into steep curves with a variable superelevation. A short time later, lighting was added that allowed night races. The conversion and renovation work was well received by the fans and resulted in some tight race decisions. Due to the variable elevation, the ideal line is right next to the wall when the tires are falling, which, in view of the championship decision of the three NASCAR series taking place here, leads to a conflict of interests between fast time and the risk of damaging the car if it hits the wall.

On March 26, 2006, IndyCar Series pilot Paul Dana had a serious accident during warm-up training at the start of the season when he collided with Ed Carpenter at over 346 km / h . His death was the first in about two and a half years when Tony Renna was killed at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in October 2003 . Previously, John Nemechek had died in a Craftsman truck race in March 1997 and Jeff Clinton in a Grand Am sports car in March 2002 on the speedway.

Available courses

Solid gray lines represent an alternative route, broken gray lines represent other courses.

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  Speedway

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  Road course

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  Hybrid course - official name: "Modified Road Course"

Records

record	year	date	driver	Manufacturer	time	Average speed ( mph )
NASCAR Sprint Cup
Qualifying	2003		Jamie McMurray	Dodge	29.816	181.111
Race (400 miles)	1999	14th November	Tony Stewart	Pontiac	2:51:14	140,335 (before reconfiguration)
NASCAR Xfinity Series
Qualifying	2004		Casey Mears		30,348	177.936
Race (300 miles)	2001	November 10th	Joe Nemechek		2:16:10	132,191 (before reconfiguration)
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Qualifying	2007		Jon Wood		31,180	173.188
Race (200 miles)	2002	15th of November	Ron Hornaday Jr.		1:30:30	133,260 (before reconfiguration)
IZOD IndyCar Series
Qualifying	2006	25th March	Sam Hornish Junior	Dallara / Honda	24,462	218,539
Race (300 miles)	2006	26th of March	Dan Wheldon	Dallara / Honda	1: 46: 15.530	167.730

Web links

• Official website
• Homestead-Miami Speedway on NASCAR.com