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About Homestead
Track Homestead-Miami Speedway (Homestead, Fla.), 1.5-mile paved oval
Race length 267 laps, 400.5 miles First race 1995
Quote of note
“We’re lucky that everybody kept working hard and has stayed after it.” — Kasey Kahne, driving for the lame-duck Red Bull Racing team, after winning at Phoenix.
Where to watch
Sunday’s pre-race show on ESPN starts 2 p.m. EST, followed by the race at 3.
THE LOWDOWN For the first time in Chase history, Jimmie Johnson goes to Homestead as something other than a title contender. In the first two editions of the Chase, before he went on his five-year championship run, Johnson went to Homestead as the challenger: second to Kurt Busch in 2004 and to Tony Stewart in 2005.
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