Homestead-Miami Speedway Tickets

Homestead-Miami Speedway

Homestead-Miami Speedway is a 1. 517 mile oval shaped track, which was completed in 1995. It also features 2. 210 and 1. 40 mile road courses. Homestead-Miami Speedway is a world-class motor sports facility located 35 miles just south of Miami in tropical South Florida. It is located at the end of I95 as it becomes Rte 1 to the Keys. The Speedway is the home of Ford Championship Weekend, the season-finales for the Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, and the Busch and Craftsman Truck Series. Each spring, the Speedway hosts the Toyota Indy 300 featuring the IRL IndyCar Series, the Rolex Sports Car Series and the Menards Infiniti Pro Series. In addition to these major spectator events, the Speedway is active more than 260 days per year with multiple forms of racing, testing, track rentals, driving schools and community events." Homestead-Miami Speedway is one of the few facilities in the world capable of hosting events from three NASCAR divisions as well as Indy Car racing and major sports car racing.

NASCAR racing made its debut in the Miami area in 1995, drawing a sellout crowd of 60, 000 to its first event. The track has a $100 million annual impact on the local economy and draws more than 300,000 racing enthusiasts annually to the area. In 1992, after Hurricane Andrew devastated South Dade and the City of Homestead, longtime Miami motor-sports promoter Ralph Sanchez met with Homestead's then-city manager Alex Muxo to negotiate a deal that would bring the facility to town with hopes of aiding in the revitalization of the city. Since it's inaugural year the Speedway, drivers such as Dave Rezendes, Kenny Irwin and Rick Crawford have found victory lane in the ultra-modern facility. On July 23, 1997, Penske Motorsports, Inc., and International Speedway Corporation became partners with Sanchez and Huizenga. On March 15, 1998, PMI and ISC acquired Sanchez's remaining interest in Homestead-Miami Speedway, and longtime Penske Corporation employee Brian Skuza was named president.

Also in 1998, Michael Andretti became the Speedway's first two-time winner, taking the Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami for the second consecutive year. Although not a points race, former Daytona 500 champion Geoffrey Bodine was the Speedway's first "winner" of a race, taking top honors in a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series exhibition race on Nov. 4, 1995 , the day before Jarrett won the inaugural Jiffy Lube Miami 300. After two seasons of racing action, the complex's 1.5-mile oval underwent a $8.2 million reconstruction, which transformed the former quad-oval and its "short-chutes" between the turns into a continuous turn oval. The new design provides more competitive and even more exciting racing and made its successful debut with the Nov. 7-9 Jiffy Lube Miami 300. In 1999, the Speedway hosted NASCAR's premier division, of which Tony Stewart won the inaugural Pennzoil 400. In 2001, the Indy Racing League made its debut at Homestead-Miami Speedway. As Sam Hornish edged Sarah Fisher and Eliseo Salazar to what can be termed as a thrilling finish in the first Grand Prix of Miami. Homestead-Miami Speedway was awarded the Ford Championship

Weekend, where for the first time NASCAR's three premier series, Winston (NEXTEL), Busch and Craftsman Truck Series, each concluded their seasons and crowned champions on the same weekend and at the same track, in 2002. After several processional races, the track underwent extensive renovation, starting in May 2003, right after the the Toyota Indy 300 (formerly the Grand Prix of Miami). The six degree banking was ripped out and a variable banking system installed, with eighteen degree banking at the bottom of the corner, nineteen degree banking in the middle and twenty degree banking at the top. The project cost $12 million. The NEW Homestead-Miami Speedway debuted with the 2003 Ford Championship Weekend. Homestead-Miami Speedway is the home of the Nextel Cup Series-Ford 400, the Busch Series-Ford 300 and the Craftsman Truck Series-Ford 200. Most of the races are held in November of each year.