Late-race strategy played out just the way Kyle Busch hoped it would. He just didn’t have the car to take advantage of it.
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Championship 4 Prove Why they were Considered the Best Ever
HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Leading into Sunday night’s Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, much was made about the season’s ‘Big Three’ deciding the championship – all former champs, Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, and Martin Truex Jr. And yet, as it turned out the ‘fourth’ – Joey Logano – was ‘big’ enough when he needed to be too.
Continue readingJoey Logano Wins at Homestead to Claim his First Cup Series Championship
The 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season all came down to Sunday’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. A battle between ‘The Big Three,’ and Joey Logano in the Team Penske Racing Ford. A 400-mile showdown on a racetrack that offers multiple grooves for drivers. Fans saw drivers paint the white line on the bottom, or drivers race so close to the wall that a piece of paper would not fit between. It is a great track for NASCAR’s championship race.
Continue readingLate Charge Gives Joey Logano Homestead Victory and First Cup Championship
HOMESTEAD, Fla. – On Sunday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway, it was ‘The Big Three and Me’ — with the ‘Me’ being Joey Logano waging vehicular war against the three most prolific winners in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.
Now ‘Me’ is a champion.
Continue readingNASCAR President Steve Phelps Sees Exciting Days Ahead for the Sport
HOMESTEAD, Fla. – With a new rules package coming in 2019 for NASCAR’s foremost series, with significant schedule changes under consideration for the year after that, and with a groundswell of new corporate interest in the sport as a marketing vehicle, NASCAR President Steve Phelps was upbeat when he took questions from reporters on Sunday morning before the Ford EcoBoost 400 (at 3 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90) at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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