Homestead-Miami Speedway

• Progressive banks
• Multi-groove
• 2026 finale

Booth notes

Homestead is a 1.5-mile oval with progressive banking that actually lets you move up — a driver’s track when the championship is on the line. Cup first raced here in 1999. From 2002 through 2019 it hosted Championship Weekend, then Phoenix took the finale (2020–2025). 2026 brings the title fight back: the Straight Talk Wireless 400 on Nov. 8, 1 p.m. Mountain, last of the 10 Chase races, no Championship 4 reset. Kyle Larson won the 2025 spring date. The groove is wide. The banks climb. If you can run the fence and still rotate, you can win a championship the old Homestead way — by being fastest, not by surviving a one-race shootout.

One Cup points race most years. 2002–2019 (including 2016–19 on this list) were Championship Weekend. 2020–2025 were not the finale. 2026 returns the title race here.

1. 012025

   Kyle Larson · #5

   Straight Talk Wireless 400

2. 022024

   Tyler Reddick · #45

   Straight Talk Wireless 400

3. 032023

   Christopher Bell · #20

   4EVER 400 Presented by Mobil 1

4. 042022

   Kyle Larson · #5

   Dixie Vodka 400

5. 052021

   William Byron · #24

   Dixie Vodka 400

6. 062020

   Denny Hamlin · #11

   Dixie Vodka 400

7. 072019

   Kyle Busch · #18

   Ford EcoBoost 400

   championship race
8. 082018

   Joey Logano · #22

   Ford EcoBoost 400

   championship race
9. 092017

   Martin Truex Jr. · #78

   Ford EcoBoost 400

   championship race
10. 102016

    Jimmie Johnson · #48

    Ford EcoBoost 400

    championship race

Fun facts

• Championship host 2002–2019. Phoenix took 2020–2025. Homestead gets the 2026 finale.

• Progressive 18–20° banking is why drivers talk about “moving up the fence.”

• Jimmie Johnson’s 2016 win here was his seventh Cup title — last points race of that season.

• First Cup race: 1999. The oval was rebuilt with variable banking after the original flat 1.5.

• 2026 Chase: no elimination rounds. Highest 10-race total after this race is the champion.