Ford 400

Ford 400

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Venue	Homestead-Miami Speedway
Location	Homestead, Florida, United States
Corporate sponsor	Ford Motor Company
First race	1999
Distance	400 miles (643.74 km)
Laps	267
Previous names	Pennzoil 400 (1999–2000) Pennzoil Freedom 400 (2001) Ford 400 (2002–2011, 2016–) Ford EcoBoost 400 (2012–2015)
Most wins (driver)	Greg Biffle Tony Stewart (3)
Most wins (team)	Roush Fenway Racing (7)
Most wins (manufacturer)	Ford (7)
Circuit information
Surface	Asphalt
Length	1.5 km (0.93 mi)
Turns	4

The Ford 400 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. The inaugural race was held in 1999, and has been the final race in the Sprint Cup Series season since 2002, as well as the final race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup since 2004. It is also part of the Ford Championship Weekend, which consists of two other races, the Ford 200 for the Camping World Truck Series and the Ford 300 for the Xfinity Series. The race is contested over 267 laps, 400.5 miles (644.542 km).

Past winners

Year	Date	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Race distance		Race time	Average speed (mph)	Report
					Laps	Miles (km)
1999	November 14	Tony Stewart	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac	267	400.5 (644.542)	2:51:14	140.335	Report
2000	November 12	Tony Stewart	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:08:30	127.480	Report
2001	November 11	Bill Elliott	Evernham Motorsports	Dodge	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:24:36	117.449	Report
2002*	November 17	Kurt Busch	Roush Racing	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:26:20	116.462	Report
2003*	November 16	Bobby Labonte	Joe Gibbs Racing	Chevrolet	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:25:37	116.868	Report
2004	November 21	Greg Biffle	Roush Racing	Ford	271*	406.5 (654.198)	3:50:55	105.623	Report
2005*	November 20	Greg Biffle	Roush Racing	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:02:50	131.932	Report
2006	November 19	Greg Biffle	Roush Racing	Ford	268*	402 (646.956)	3:12:23	125.375	Report
2007	November 18	Matt Kenseth	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:02:12	131.888	Report
2008	November 16	Carl Edwards	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:05:36	129.472	Report
2009	November 22	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:06:18	126.986	Report
2010	November 21	Carl Edwards	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:09:50	126.585	Report
2011	November 20	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:29:00	114.976	Report
2012	November 18	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	267	400.5 (644.542)	2:48:56	142.245	Report
2013	November 17	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:03:52	130.693	Report
2014	November 16	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:16:31	122.28	Report
2015	November 22	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:02:23	131.755	Report

The start of the 2009 race

• 2002: Last race on an old layout.
• 2003: First race on a new layout.
• 2004 and 2006: Race extended due to a green–white–checker finish.
• 2005: First race run under the lights, after being installed during the summer.

Multiple winners (drivers)

# of wins	Driver	Years won
3	Greg Biffle	2004, 2005, 2006
	Tony Stewart	1999, 2000, 2011
2	Carl Edwards	2008, 2010
	Denny Hamlin	2009, 2013

Multiple winners (teams)

# of wins	Team	Years won
7	Roush Fenway Racing	2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
6	Joe Gibbs Racing	1999, 2000, 2003, 2009, 2013, 2015
2	Stewart-Haas Racing	2011, 2014

Manufacturer wins

# of wins	Manufacturer	Years won
7	Ford	2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
4	Chevrolet	2003, 2011, 2012, 2014
3	Toyota	2009, 2013, 2015
2	Pontiac	1999, 2000
1	Dodge	2001

Race summaries

• 1999: Rookie Tony Stewart wins the inaugural event, and sets the record for most wins by a rookie in the modern era with his 3rd win.
• 2000: Stewart made it 2-for-2 as he won the race, with his teammate Bobby Labonte clinching the 2000 Winston Cup Championship.
• 2001: Bill Elliott's 41st career win snapped his 226 race winless streak, the longest streak in between race wins, dating back to Darlington in 1994.
• 2002: In the final race on the old configuration, Kurt Busch drove to his 4th win in a rain-delayed event, and Stewart won his 1st title.
• 2003: In the first on a newly reconfigured track, Bobby Labonte's win was marked by a flat tire for leader Bill Elliott on the last lap.
• 2004: Fourteen cautions plagued the first race in which it was the final Chase event, and Greg Biffle held off Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon in a Green-White-Checkered finish to win his first of three-consecutive races at HMS, while his teammate Kurt Busch won the title by 8 points over Johnson.
• 2005: In the first night race at the track, Greg Biffle dueled teammate Mark Martin over the final 7 laps to edge Martin for the win by 0.017 of a second. Roush ended up with a sweep of the Top 4 spots (Kenseth was 3rd and Edwards 4th), and Stewart won his 2nd title. Greg Biffle's win was his 6th win of the season and he and teammate Carl Edwards were tied for second with both of them 35 points behind Stewart, but Biffle got second thanks to his six wins vs. Edwards four.
• 2006: Greg Biffle scores his third-consecutive win, and completes the hat-trick for Roush. Mark Martin won the Truck event, Kenseth won the Busch race, and then Biffle winning the Cup event. Jimmie Johnson scores his first of five consecutive Cup titles.
• 2007: Last race with the old car. Matt Kenseth leads 214 of the 267 laps to score the final win before the COT went full-time in 2008, while Johnson goes back to back.
• 2008: Carl Edwards scored his 9th win of the season, but came up 16 points short of Jimmie Johnson for the Cup title as he stressed his last tank of fuel to the finish, and Johnson tying Cale Yarborough's record of three-consecutive Sprint Cup titles.
• 2009: Denny Hamlin wins from the furthest back anyone has at the track from 38th to his first win at the track, and Jimmie Johnson scores his record-setting 4th consecutive Championship.
• 2010: Denny Hamlin came in with a slim lead and lost it after an early race spin. Carl Edwards led a whopping 190 laps on his way to winning the final two races of the season, but Jimmie Johnson scored his inconceivable 5th consecutive Championship.
• 2011: Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards finished first and second in the race and in the Sprint Cup point standings, Stewart winning the latter due to a tiebreaker.
• 2012: Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Sprint Cup Championship, his first Cup title, and giving Dodge a going away gift. Jeff Gordon won the race beating Clint Bowyer who both fought the week before at Phoenix after crashing on fuel mileage, his first win at Homestead-Miami Speedway, leaving only Kentucky Speedway as the only track he failed to win at in his career. This was also Dodge's last race for the foreseeable future, as they stopped in the Sprint Cup after 2012.
• 2013: Denny Hamlin ended a miserable 2013 by winning for the second time at Homestead, and Jimmie Johnson scoring his 6th-career Cup title.
• 2014: With the new Chase Grid format where the top 4 in points have a shot at the title, the race became known as the Championship Round race, and whoever finished the highest would win the Championship. Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, and Ryan Newman were the ones who would have the shot at the title. At one point, all 4 drivers were running 1st–4th, but the race was dominated by pole-sitter Jeff Gordon, who led 160 laps. Due to pit strategy, and crazy restarts, Harvick found himself battling Newman in on a restart with 3 laps to go. Harvick and the #4 pulled off what his boss Tony Stewart did 3 years prior, a Stewart-Haas Racing driver winning both the race and the Championship, with Kevin Harvick becoming the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion. Newman would finish second, Hamlin seventh, and Logano 16th due to the jack slipping on a late pit stop.
• 2015: With Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon, and Martin Truex Jr. being the 4 Chase drivers going for the title, for the second year in a row, and for the third time in the last five years, a driver won both the race and the championship. This time, it was Joe Gibbs Racing's Kyle Busch, who became the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion despite missing the first 11 races of the season due to an injury to his leg and foot that he suffered in a wreck during the first Xfinity Series race of the season at Daytona International Speedway, by holding off defending and 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Kevin Harvick in a 7-lap shootout. Also, Jeff Gordon finished sixth in his final Sprint Cup Series start before retiring from racing full-time and moving into the Fox NASCAR broadcast booth for the 2016 season, leading 9 laps early. Truex Jr. would wind up finishing 12th, with the Penske guys of Keselowski and Logano being the dominantors of the race leading 86 and 72 laps respectively.

Television broadcasters

NBC had televised the race from 1999 to 2006, and was the only race carried by the network for the first two years as TV contracts were negotiated on a track-by-track basis until the 2001 season. ABC televised the race from 2007 to 2009. From 2010-2014 ESPN, who was also a broadcasting partner with ABC, televised the race. The race returned to NBC in 2015.

Year	Network	Lap-by-lap	Color commentator(s)
1999	NBC	Allen Bestwick	Joe Gibbs Mike Wallace
2000			Benny Parsons
2001			Benny Parsons Wally Dallenbach
2002
2003
2004
2005		Bill Weber
2006
2007	ABC	Jerry Punch	Rusty Wallace Andy Petree
2008			Dale Jarrett Andy Petree
2009
2010	ESPN	Marty Reid
2011		Allen Bestwick
2012
2013
2014
2015	NBC	Rick Allen	Jeff Burton Steve Letarte
2016

See also

• Ford 200
• Ford 300
• Ford Championship Weekend

References

External links

• 2010 NASCAR Numbers Game
• NASCAR Commentators Crews and Networks
• ESPN plans to carry 14 NASCAR races in 2010