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Fox News
31-03-2025
- Automotive
- Fox News
How to watch 2025 NASCAR Homestead: Schedule, start time, TV channel for Straight Talk Wireless 400
The 2025 Straight Talk Wireless 400 is set to take place at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. Spanning 267 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) oval, it will mark the sixth race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season. Here's what you need to know about the race, how to watch and more. The Straight Talk Wireless 400 is scheduled for Sunday, March 23rd at 3 p.m. ET. The Straight Talk Wireless 400 will take place at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. The Straight Talk Wireless 400 is a total of 267 laps and 400.5 miles. The race will be broadcast live on FS1 and the FOX Sports App. The Straight Talk Wireless 400 can be streamed on the FOX Sports App or For those without cable, there are live-streaming services that carry FS1, including YouTube TV, Sling TV, Hulu + Live TV and fuboTV. There are 37 drivers entered into the Straight Talk Wireless 400. Qualifying starts on Saturday, 3/22.
Miami Herald
24-03-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
Kyle Larson nabs 30th career win, first of 2025 at Homestead
Kyle Larson overcame plenty on Sunday to win for the 30th time in his distinguished NASCAR Cup Series career. Larson moved past Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman with seven laps to go, capturing the Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla. Restarting fourth with 55 laps to go following the race's final caution period, Bowman worked his way by Larson and Denny Hamlin and eventually put his No. 48 Chevrolet around Bubba Wallace's No. 23 Toyota with 33 laps left. But with Larson charging hard in his No. 5 Chevrolet, Bowman banged the wall hard in Turn 4, allowing Larson to move by and motor away by 1.205 seconds for his 30th career victory and Chevrolet's third in five Homestead races. Larson, who led 19 laps, became the 30th driver in NASCAR history to reach 30 career wins in the Cup Series, but he had extra work to do at Homestead. His car was struck by Josh Berry in a pit-road incident, and his Chevrolet smacked the outside wall numerous times blazing around the 1.5-mile speedway. 'It was far from perfect,' said Larson, a two-time Homestead victor who qualified 14th. 'I got into the wall too many times ... I had just had to keep plugging away with what I know and what's good for me. 'Just a lot of gritty, hard work there today between damage on pit road, qualifying bad, bad restarts, all of that stuff. ... Just to keep my head down and keep digging felt good.' After his season-best runner-up outing, Bowman said he felt he let his first 2025 win slip away. 'Yeah, I guess I choked that one away, for sure,' said Bowman, who held the point for 43 laps. 'I just kind of burned my stuff up. ... I pulled it off the wall too far (in Turn 4) and hit the fence pretty bad. (My team) deserved better than that.' Wallace, Chase Briscoe and Hamlin rounded out the top five. In the 27th Cup race in the South Florida track's history, Bowman led 36 other cars to the green flag, but he eventually watched Ryan Blaney, Berry and Larson take the point through a caution-free start to the 267-lap race, the series' sixth of the season. However, with 10 laps to go in Stage 1 and Blaney's No. 12 Ford out front, three-time 2025 winner Christopher Bell spun by himself while tight against the Turn 4 wall. Blaney held the lead on the ensuing restart and won his second stage this season. Bowman, Briscoe, Larson and Austin Cindric grabbed the top-five bonus points in the 80-lap segment. As the field immediately pitted after the stage, Joey Logano exited his pit and made it four-wide, wrecking with Berry under Larson and Hamlin on the crowded, narrow pit road. Hamlin pitted his No. 11 Toyota on Lap 126 but regained the lead with four laps to go and was victorious in Stage 2 by nipping Larson, who was on the same strategy with fresher tires. Blaney, William Byron and Wallace followed. Running third with 60 circuits left, Blaney had his engine expire in a plume of smoke off Turn 4. The 2023 Cup champion led 124 laps. Field Level Media 2025 - All Rights Reserved
Miami Herald
24-03-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
Alex Bowman wins the pole for Cup race at Miami
HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman provided a dramatic final few minutes of Busch Light Pole Qualifying on Saturday afternoon -- claiming the pole position for Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway (3 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). With only four cars remaining in the session, Bowman's No. 48 Chevrolet set fast lap of 168.845 mph around the 1.5-mile track, knocking Front Frow Motorsports' Noah Gragson from the lead position that he had held for the majority of the qualifying session. Last week's Las Vegas race winner, Wood Brothers Racing's Josh Berry took the track immediately after and nearly equaled Bowman's lap -- instead his No. 21 Ford coming a mere .073-second off the pole-winning pace but earning a front row position alongside the Hendrick driver. This is Bowman's sixth career pole position and first at Homestead, a place the 32-year-old Arizona-native doesn't necessarily consider one of his historically better tracks. He has only a pair of top-10 finishes, but his best outcome -- seventh place -- came in the series most recent Homestead visit last October. "There were some cars not so great on the short run and really fast on the long run and we were kind of the opposite of that practice, we were really faster in the short run and not great on the long run stuff so I knew qualifying was going to be really important because of that and that we had some work to do for tomorrow," Bowman said, "But for me, I had a pretty clear cut plan for qualifying and I thought I was able to execute that pretty well and my race car gave me what I needed to do that." Gragson will start third, followed by Daytona 500 polesitter, Joe Gibbs Racing's Chase Briscoe in the No. 19 Toyota and current NASCAR Cup Series championship leader William Byron in the No. 24 Hendrick Chevrolet. "We're still really fast, but I've never gotten a pole in the Cup Series, but our Beef A Roo Mustang is pretty quick on the short run," said Gragson, driver of the No. 4 FRM Ford. "We just need to get a little better for the long run and we're up in the hunt, so that's good." Intermittent clouds cooled the 74-degree afternoon and as Bowman alluded to, several of the fastest cars in practice did not necessarily fare as well in actual qualifying. 23XI Racing's Bubba Wallace set top pace in Group B practice, for example, but was only ninth quickest in qualifying. Fellow Toyota driver, Legacy Motor Club's Erik Jones was second -- just behind Wallace -- in that practice session but ended up only 28th quickest on the starting grid. Conversely, Kaulig Racing's A.J. Allmendinger, who was 25th fastest in that Group 2 practice session will start the race from 10th position. Berry, still basking in his first career win last week at Las Vegas, was 31st in practice but will start from the front row. Defending race winner Tyler Reddick was 20th in qualifying. Kyle Larson, who is attempting to win in all three national series races this weekend will roll off 14th in the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. And the season's winningest driver, Joe Gibbs Racing's Christopher Bell was 16th in qualifying. A three-time winner already, he is trying to become only the third driver in NASCAR history -- joining Hall of Famers Bill Elliott (1992) and Dale Earnhardt (1987) as the only competitors in the modern era to win four of the opening six races. NOTEBOOK ITEMS: *BERRY INSISTS SUCCESS NOT A FLUKE *First-time NASCAR Cup Series winner Josh Berry and the Wood Brothers Racing team come into Homestead race week still enjoying the legendary team's 101st victory at Las Vegas last Sunday -- a huge career achievement for Berry, personally, and only the second win for the team in the last nine years. Only five races into his tenure, Berry has already delivered an early-season Playoff berth for the team and by the looks of the strong showing may well win again in the months before the championship march starts. He was adamant that the Vegas win wasn't a "fluke' and is one of only four drivers with multiple top-five finishes on the year. "Without a doubt I feel like I had things to prove," said the 34-year-old Berry, who is beginning only his second fulltime season in the Cup ranks. "Obviously, coming off of last year and everything we went through, I think people were still looking at all four of us that were part of that program with a lot of question marks, so, to me, I wanted to go out and prove myself all over again in the Cup Series. "I felt like this was probably the opportunity for me. I think if I fail at this one, I don't think there's probably another one lined up for me, so most definitely there was pressure to go out and perform. During the offseason we just really buckled down and obviously getting to know and working with my new crew chief, Miles. "We put in a lot of work over the offseason to be prepared when the season started and I feel like that obviously paid off. Honestly, our results and performance has exceeded our expectations, so I'm super happy with that and winning a race in the Cup Series is a big deal." Berry's second place qualifying lap marks the fourth time in the past five races he's secured a top-10 start. *LARSON'S TRIPLE QUEST No driver is busier than Hendrick Motorsports' Kyle Larson this weekend and the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion is already batting a thousand in his quest to win trophies in all three national series races at Homestead. He earned his first trophy with a dramatic comeback victory in Friday's NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race making the pass for the lead with only two laps remaining. It adds to an already-impressive resume here for Larson, who is a former winner in both Saturday's Xfinity Series 300-miler (2015) and Sunday's NACAR Cup Series race (2022) at the South Florida 1.5-miler. He comes into Sunday's race ranked sixth in the NASCAR Cup Series championship standings, with three top-10s and a pair of third place finishes through the opening five races. "I felt like the Truck race was probably going to be the toughest to win, I don't have much experience in them and the runs are typically shorter," Larson said. "I feel better about Xfinity and Cup but the competition keeps getting tough and tougher as you get on with the weekend, but we'll see. Off to a good start." *HOMESTEAD A FINALE FAVORITE NASCAR just raced at the Homestead-Miami Speedway 1.5-miler during the October 2024 Playoff run and this weekend marks the first time it has been a Spring event since 2021. Ask the drivers where they'd like to see the former, longtime season finale venue on the schedule and the consensus is, they'd love to see it return as the championship race one day. "I certainly would like to see it play a bigger factor in our championship, whether it's in the Playoffs or part of the championship race round or whatever it might be," said the Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin, whose three wins are most among active drivers. "I'd just like to see it a part of that because we just talked about how the driver makes a bigger difference at the is race track than the car." Team Penske's Ryan Blaney took it a step further. "All the above, really," Blaney responded with a grin when asked if he preferred the spring or fall Homestead placement on the calendar. "I'll be honest, it doesn't matter to me when we come here, spring all, in the playoffs, championship race, as long as we're coming here. I think if you asked, some guys would love to come here twice, once in the spring and once in the fall, where that race in the fall lays, I don't care. Do I think the championship race should rotate between a few tracks? Yeah. And this should be one of them. This place puts on a great show no matter what." *THE WINNING Bs The five NASCAR Cup Series races have all been won by drivers whose last names begin with the letter "B." Hendrick Motorsports' William Byron won the Daytona 500. Joe Gibbs Racing's Christopher Bell won the next three races -- at Atlanta, Circuit of The Americas and Phoenix -- and Berry picked up his first career win at Las Vegas last weekend. Saturday's Homestead pole winner? Alex Bowman. Several drivers conceded that B letter trend could likely continue this weekend at Homestead with 2023 NASCAR Cup Series champ Ryan Blaney considered a favorite. He started the season with a pair of top-10 finishes and won the pole position at Atlanta but has back-to-back showings of 28th and 35th in the two races heading to South Florida -- suffering an engine failure at Phoenix and crashing last weekend at Las Vegas. "I thought our car was really good last week until I wrecked all of us on the back stretch so just hope to keep that same pace but I feel good with where our program is at right now," said Blaney, who has finished runner-up in the last two Homestead races. "Just a matter of trying to get some stuff to go our way." *SEASON OF LEARNING One of the more heralded rookies this season is former Australian SuperCars champion Shane Van Gisbergen, who turned heads and earned high praise for his historic victory at the Chicago Street Course two years ago in his first ever NASCAR Cup Series start. With a strong background in road and street courses before coming to America as a fulltime NASCAR Competitor, the 34-year-old New Zealand-native said it has been a legitimate learning curve in the NASCAR Cup Series on the ovals. His lone top-10 result of the year in the No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet came at the Circuit of The Americas road course. He says it has been an education on the assortment of long and short ovals in this first full NASCAR Cup Series schedule. Twice -- in the last two races at Phoenix and Las Vegas -- he's been collected in crashes not of his own doing. "I feel like we've showed a lot of promise but we have nothing to show for it, really," Van Gisbergen said. "COTA was a good day, but on the ovals we've really struggled and we've had a lot of accidents and they haven't really been our fault. "It's really tough results-wise but I see a lot of potential and speed. Just got to put it together and get to the end of the races and things will start clicking for us, I think." "It has been hard because I'm not really known for crashing too much and not finishing, so it's been a bit of a pain really," Van Gisbergen added. "Just have to stay out of trouble and get through it. The first stage we're always going good and improving and thinking the rest of the race is going to be good then something seems to happen, so hopefully we stop that this weekend." --By Holly Cain, NASCAR Wire Service. Special to Field Level Media. Field Level Media 2025 - All Rights Reserved
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
NASCAR Homestead-Miami reaction: Why Ty Gibbs is struggling
Kyle Larson rode the wall on Sunday all the way to victory at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Larson ran down teammate Alex Bowman to take the lead with seven laps to go and pulled away to win the Straight Talk Wireless 400 NASCAR Cup Series race. Bowman had taken the lead from Bubba Wallace with less than 30 laps to go and had a fairly sizeable lead over the other frontrunners. But Larson's long-run speed won out at the end, especially as Bowman brushed the wall off of Turn 4 on Lap 260 to allow Larson by for the top spot. Hendrick Motorsports has had a very strong start to the 2025 season. All four Hendrick drivers finished in the top 10 in each of the last two races, and Larson and Bowman posted a 1-2 finish on Sunday. Here are the winners and losers for Sunday's NASCAR race at Homestead-Miami: HOMESTEAD RESULTS: Kyle Larson is winner, plus full leaderboard Preece surged in the final run to finish 9th on Sunday, his second straight top-10 finish after getting third at Las Vegas. That has to be encouraging for Preece and RFK Racing in the first year of a partnership as the shop's third Cup Series team. Up next? Martinsville, a track that Preece has run well at over the last two seasons. Wallace may be a bit frustrated not to win after leading for a good chunk of the final stage, but the overall result is very important for the driver of the No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota. Despite not having the results through five races, Wallace has done well in collecting stage points to temper any late-race issues. Wallace has now led in four of six races to begin the season, and a rather calm third-place finish is a day well done for the team. Practice data on Saturday showed Gibbs running times similar to contenders Kyle Larson and William Byron on long-run speed. That was not the case on Sunday. Gibbs was not a factor again on Sunday, finishing 25th. It's his fifth straight finish outside of the top 20 this season. Gibbs is struggling in his age-22 season, which is perfectly normal for most drivers. But the pressure will be on Gibbs to turn this season around. We know Joe Gibbs Racing's Toyotas have speed. Can Gibbs find it? Keselowski is another driver whose presence in this space is as much about the start of the season overall as a middling finish on Sunday. If you watched or attended Sunday's race and barely noticed the No. 6 RFK Racing Ford, no one could blame you. Keselowski spent most of the day well off the leaders, with an average running position of 25th before finishing 26th. In fact, the most attention Keselowski got all day was as the slower car getting lapped on the bottom lane as Larson and Bowman raced for the lead in the final laps. It's the fourth finish outside top 20 in six races in 2025 for the former Cup Series champion, whose overall slump dates back to a mediocre finish to 2024 in which he was never a true championship contender in the postseason. Teammates Ryan Preece (a top-5 last week at Las Vegas) and Chris Buescher (top-10 in points) have been fine to start the season, though not necessarily in contention. Keselowski has neither been fine nor in contention in 2025, including on Sunday. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: NASCAR Homestead-Miami reaction: Bubba Wallace surges while Ty Gibbs struggles
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Ryan Blaney blows engine at NASCAR Homestead race, suffers third DNF in a row
Ryan Blaney has suffered another blown engine, this one coming at the NASCAR Homestead race. Blaney was running third on lap 207 of the 267 scheduled in Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway when smoke poured out of Blaney's No. 12 Team Penske Ford. He is scored 36th of 37 cars in the race. Blaney led 124 laps in Sunday's race when the engine blew. "I didn't have any warning," Blaney said to FOX Sports pit reporter Jamie Little. "It just laid over when I got back to wide open on the front (stretch). It just stinks ... We'll keep our head up; the good news is we're bringing fast race cars and that's all you can ask for. We'll keep on moving." This is the second blown engine in three weeks for Blaney, he had one at Phoenix after running toward the front in that race. Despite blowing the engine on the frontstretch, Blaney was able to get the car back to pit road. His team was able to extinguish the fire the car had underneath. Blaney has struggled in the last month with three consecutive DNFs for the first time in his NASCAR Cup Series career. He was part of a big crash in last week's NASCAR Las Vegas race. Blaney has two top-10 finishes this season in the first two races of the season and has finished outside the top 15 in the last four races. Follow sports writer Austin Chastain on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @ChastainAJ or reach him via email at achastain@ This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: NASCAR Homestead-Miami race: Ryan Blaney blows engine
