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Homestead-Miami Speedway
Date: November 18, 2012
Distance: 400.5 miles (644.542 km)
Laps: 267
First race: 1999
Current Champion: Carl Edwards

2011 Ford 400 Race Betting Odds

NASCAR's series-crowning Ford Championship Weekend: Home to the Championship finales of the Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series.

Homestead-Miami Speedway is a race track in Homestead, Florida southwest of Miami. It plays host to Ford Championship Weekend, the final races of the season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and the Camping World Truck Series.

The Homestead- Miami Speedway opened in 1995, but the first Sprint Cup race wasn’t run until 1999. Six different drivers have won at Homestead, but Greg Biffle is the only multiple winner with three. Homestead is one of only two tracks that Jeff Gordon has never won at. Tony Stewart won the very first race here in November of 1999 and Matt Kenseth won last year.

The tracks original configuration was a flat oval with short "chute" straightaways between Turns 1 and 2 and Turns 3 and 4. Five years later, an $8 million renovation turned the track into a more conventional oval with 6 degrees of banking in its turns.

Then, in 2003, Homestead-Miami Speedway took on its current shape. The tracks turns were rebuilt with variable banking from 18 degrees in the bottom groove to 20 degrees near the outside wall.

That project cost another $12 million and set Homestead-Miami Speedway up to host to Ford Championship Weekend, a climactic tripleheader featuring the season finales in all three of NASCAR top national series ý Nextel Cup, Busch and Craftsman Truck.

Homestead-Miami Speedway Track Specs

Track length: 1.5 miles
Banking: Corners — 18-20 degrees (variable); straights — 4 degrees
Front stretch: 1,760 feet
Backstretch: 1,760 feet
Race length (Sprint Cup): 400 miles (267 laps)
Grandstand seating capacity: 65,000
Opened: 1995

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Ford 400 Winners & Results

2009 Ford 400 Winner

Denny Hamlin won the FORD 400 Sprint Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway for his 4th win of the season and 8th of his career. It is the first win for Toyota at Homestead. Hamlin started 38th, the farthest a driver has started and won at Homestead. Burton finished 2nd, followed by Harvick in 3rd, Busch came in 4th, and #48-Johnson, became the 2009 Sprint Cup Champion. This was Johnson 4th NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship in a row, the first driver ever to so in NASCAR's 61 year history.