Alex Bowman Falls Short Of Winning At Homestead

Alex Bowman of Hendrick Motorsports finished second as the runner-up for the Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Starting from the pole position, Bowman led the first couple of laps until Ryan Blaney passed him for the lead. The No. 48 Chevrolet driver spent the rest of the stage battling to stay in the […]

William Byron Has An Underwhelming Day At Homestead

William Byron of Hendrick Motorsports had a performance of missed potential at Homestead-Miami Speedway for the Straight Talk Wireless 400 as he ended in 12th. Beginning the race from the fifth position, Byron showcased that he had one of the better cars of the field as he ran inside the top 10 through the entire […]

Chris Buescher Earns A New Career-Best Finish At Homestead

Chris Buescher of RFK Racing quietly nabbed a finish of sixth during Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. In the first stage, Buescher began the race from the 11th position, riding around the top 15 through the duration of the stage. The No. 17 Ford driver ended stage one in 13th, failing to […]

Ryan Preece Scores His Second Consecutive Top-10 Finish Of 2025 At Homestead

RFK Racing's Ryan Preece earned another strong result for the 2025 season as he placed ninth during Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Beginning the race from the 31st position, Preece quietly spent the entire race working his way through the pack. At the end of the first stage, the No. 60 Ford […]

Savvy Pit Strategy Helps Denny Hamlin Win Stage 2 At Homestead

Homestead has always been one of Denny Hamlin's stronger tracks, so it didn't come as much of a surprise that he eventually finished fifth in Sunday's race there, but for a while, it looked like he might finish significantly worse. Hamlin initially started 23rd and fell back as low as 30th in the early laps […]

Chase Briscoe Moves Above Playoff Cut Line With Fourth-Place Finish

Although Chase Briscoe qualified fourth for Sunday's Homestead race (higher than any of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates), a lot of people had rather low expectations given his history of struggling on intermediates for Stewart-Haas Racing. However, JGR is a lot faster than SHR on those tracks, and he had a lot more staying power […]

Joey Logano Misses Top 10 Again After Pit-Road Spin

Defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano's streak of zero top-10 finishes to start the 2025 season continued with a 14th-place finish at Homestead. Given the speed of the Penske cars (especially Logano's teammate Ryan Blaney) in Sunday's event, Logano must have expected more. After starting 12th, Logano drove up to sixth when the caution […]

Tyler Reddick Underachieves But Still Finishes Eighth

Tyler Reddick had a strangely muted run at Homestead, which is conventionally one of his best tracks in the NASCAR Cup Series. After winning last fall's race at Homestead in gallant fashion, he only finished 8th today after running much worse than that for most of the event. Although he gained five positions from 20th […]

Justin Haley Earns First Non-Drafting Oval Top-10 Finish For Spire Motorsports

After a string of futility in his first half-season as a Spire Motorsports driver, Justin Haley earned his first top-10 finish on a non-drafting oval at Homestead on Sunday. In a race that had relatively little attrition, Haley started 21st and steadily worked his way through the pack during the race, finishing 15th at the […]

Alex Bowman Earns First Non-Drafting Superspeedway Pole Since 2016

After a long run of consistent finishes in races where he has otherwise mostly been a non-factor, Alex Bowman earned his first pole on a non-drafting superspeedway for Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Although you'd think Homestead would be one of his absolute best tracks since it is similar to Chicagoland, Kansas, […]

Denny Hamlin's Poor Las Vegas Run Suggests He Might Be Overvalued For Homestead

Denny Hamlin has been reliably consistent at Homestead over the years, earning 13 top-10 finishes in 20 starts as well as three wins. He has also led all three Homestead races with the Next Gen chassis and battled Ryan Blaney and his driver Tyler Reddick for the win last year, but now his former crew […]

Joey Logano's Recent Homestead Record Misleading Due To Past Playoff Situations

Joey Logano has gotten a lot of criticism for being the first defending NASCAR Cup Series champion to fail to earn a top-10 finish in the first five races of the season, but that doesn't reflect how well he has run as the Penske cars seem to be a lot faster this year, and Logano […]

Josh Berry Probably Needs To Lead To Have DFS Value

After Josh Berry's semi-surprise first win at Las Vegas last week, he has continued to keep up his consistently good qualifying and starts on the outside front row for Sunday's Homestead race. Although he's definitely gained a lot of speed over his entire sophomore season, he still needed a lot of help from faster cars […]

Daniel Suarez's Poor Qualifying Makes Him A Strong DFS Option

After Daniel Suárez's unexpected second-place finish last week at Las Vegas where his teammate Ross Chastain seemed to have the most speed for a while, Suárez qualified a miserable 33rd at Homestead, which suggests there's a lot of value there if the Trackhouse Racing cars are able to carry over their speed to other intermediate […]

Shane Van Gisbergen Likely Too Inexperienced To Gain Many Positions At Homestead

Shane van Gisbergen is making his first NASCAR Cup Series start at Homestead. He qualified 25th and finished 17th in his one Xfinity Series start, typically behind A.J. Allmendinger and ahead of Josh Williams. However, that isn't enough experience to make him necessarily valuable at Homestead or really any oval. The fact that he qualified […]

Austin Cindric's Increased Staying Power In Races May Make Him More Valuable

Although Austin Cindric had a reputation of fading to mid-pack in most of the races where he qualified well, that definitely seems to have stopped in 2025 as he has seemed to have a lot more staying power up front. In last week's race at Las Vegas, he overcame a loose wheel after winning Stage […]

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Unlikely To Gain Enough Positions For DFS Value

Despite Ricky Stenhouse Jr.'s reputation as a superspeedway driver, Homestead has arguably been his worst superspeedway. At all tracks where Stenhouse has failed to ever earn a top-10 finish in the NASCAR Cup Series, he has made more starts at Homestead than any other despite some solid qualifying runs. He might have some DFS value, […]

John Hunter Nemechek Delivers His Second-Best Qualifying Run At Homestead

John Hunter Nemechek qualified seventh for Sunday's Homestead race, which is actually his best-ever as a full-time driver since his fifth-place finish at Charlotte in 2020 came with metric qualifying, and his fourth-place starting position in 2022 also came at Homestead while he was filling in for the injured Kurt Busch. It would be an […]

Cole Custer Has Been Hapless At Homestead In Cup Series

Cole Custer was something of a Homestead master in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with a win in 2017, two poles, and three second-place finishes, but his Cup Series performances at the track have left little to be desired as he has finished between 22nd and 24th in all three of his previous starts there for […]

J.J. Yeley Needs Attrition To Gain Positions At Homestead

J.J. Yeley makes his second start of the 2025 season for the NY Racing Team on Sunday at Homestead, but don't expect him to be any sort of contender. Not only did Yeley qualify in 37th and last place for the race, he was so slow that pole-sitter Alex Bowman and 35th-place qualifier Shane van […]

Christopher Bell Is One Of The Better All-Around DFS Options For Homestead

Christopher Bell of Joe Gibbs Racing will start 16th for this week's Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. This will be the lowest starting position of Bell's Cup career at Homestead since his first race at the site in 2020. In five starts at Homestead, Bell has five top-20 finishes, with four of them […]

Look For William Byron To Continue His Strong 2025 Season At Homestead

Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron will start fifth for this week's race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. This will be the fourth time in his Cup career that Byron will start a race at Homestead inside the top 10. In seven starts at the Miami track, Byron has one win and four top-10 finishes, which he all […]

Could Bubba Wallace Be A Sneaky Tournament Play For Homestead?

Bubba Wallace of 23XI Racing will start ninth for this week's race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the Straight Talk Wireless 400. This will mark the third consecutive Homestead race where Wallace will start inside the top 10. In six previous starts at the Miami track, Wallace has one top-10 finish and obtained positive Place Differential twice. […]

Kyle Busch Could Be A Favorable Pivot Option At Homestead

Kyle Busch will start 22nd for this week's Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway after qualifying. This will be the lowest starting position of the season for the No. 8 Chevrolet driver after five races. In 20 starts at Homestead, Busch has 14 top-20 finishes, including nine of the past 10 Cup events at […]

Should Ty Gibbs Be Rostered For Homestead DFS Lineups?

Ty Gibbs will start 13th for this week's Homestead-Miami Speedway Cup Series race, the Straight Talk Wireless 400. This starting position ties the best of the season so far for Gibbs after five races. In three starts at Homestead in the Cup Series, Gibbs has only one top-10 finish and obtained positive Place Differential once. […]

Brad Keselowski Will Be Worth Rostering This Week At Homestead

Brad Keselowski of RFK Racing earned a starting position of 32nd after qualifying for Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Keselowski was the lowest-qualifying driver of the three RFK entries for this week's race. In 17 starts at Homestead, Keselowski has 13 top-20 finishes with seven inside the top 10. After five races […]

Chris Buescher Is A Contrarian Tournament Option For Homestead Lineups

RFK Racing's Chris Buescher will start 11th for this week's race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Buescher was the only one of the three RFK entries to qualify inside the top 15 for Sunday's race at the Miami track. In nine races at Homestead, Buescher has five top-20 finishes without a single top-10. The No. 17 Ford […]

Noah Gragson May Pay Off For Tournament DFS Lineups At Homestead

Noah Gragson of Front Row Motorsports will start third for the Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. This is Gragson's best starting position of his Cup career at Homestead. In two previous starts at the Miami track, Gragson's best finish is 19th, and he has yet to score a finish with positive Place Differential […]

Is Erik Jones Worth Rostering At Homestead For This Week?

Erik Jones of Legacy Motor Club will start 28th for this week's race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the Straight Talk Wireless 400. This starting position will be tied for the lowest of his Cup career at Homestead, along with his October 2024 appearance at the Miami track. In eight Homestead races, Jones has two top-20 finishes […]

Carson Hocevar Is An Underrated DFS Option For Homestead Lineups

Carson Hocevar will start 15th for Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The second-year Cup driver is the top qualifier of the three Spire Motorsports entries for this week's race. In his only previous start at Homestead, Hocevar collected positive Place Differential and finished ninth. In five races completed so far this year, […]