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Homestead, fla. -The sixth Cup points of the season have a good plot, although Kyle Larson’s bid to wipe over the weekend ended at an overtime shop in Saturday’s Xfinity race.
The green flag for today’s cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway is scheduled at 3:12 pm ET. The race will air on FS1.
Here are some things to look at in today’s 267 Round race:
Familiar faces on the front
Tyler Reddick went from third place to the first round and passed Ryan Blaney for the lead to win the previous fall’s race on Homestead.
Blaney finished second (for the second year in a row on Homestead), Denny Hamlin was third, Christopher Bell was fourth and Chase Elliott was fifth.
Good chance that most of it, if not all drivers, is up front – along with Kyle Larson, who turned late while chasing Blaney for the lead in last year’s race. Larson had the fastest average over 20, 25 and 30 consecutive rounds in Saturday’s exercise.
All five headpoints races this season and almost half of the number of cup racing since 2023 have been won by a driver with a family name starting with B.
Normally, there is a 12-month gap between racing on this track in South Florida, but it was only about five months including the outdoor season Sedert the most recent cup race here. Add to that that there was no significant rule change to the cars before this season, and there is a good chance that it will be the same group in front.
“The best managers are the best managers, so it’s hard to keep it in,” Hamlin said. ‘And the best teams are the best teams. … We were not here too long ago, so I can imagine that you would have the same five or six that dominated the race the last time, the same time, unless someone finds something in their setup that makes things quite better. “
Watch Chase Elliott tracking
In the previous fall’s event, Chase Elliott led an 81 rounds. While entering today’s race with three consecutive top 10 finishes, over the past two weeks, the results of 10th place at Phoenix and Las Vegas have left the no. 9-clump.
“There were some highlights, there were a few low places,” Elliott said over this season. “I thought the first three weeks, four weeks if you included the collision there were all very good. Had very fast cars and cars that, truly, exactly what I wanted. We crashed the first three weeks of the season, so it was a shame.
“I’m not going to sit here and tell you that Phoenix or Vegas was good because it wasn’t. I know that and you know it. We just have to keep sitting away and find some good runs.
“I think we were really good here in the fall, probably our best homestead, maybe ever, definitely in this new car. I hope we can recreate some of them, because there were a lot of good things going on. ‘
Elliott starts today’s race 18th.
#Nascar … Chase Elliott discusses the beginning of his season, how more needs to be done, even after the past two weeks have finished 10th and the hope he has for today’s race on Homestead. pic.twitter.com/fz0kpfrb7o
– Dustin Long (@dustinlong) March 23, 2025
Chase Briscoe is learning a new system at JGR
It was a start of the season for Chase Briscoe in his new ride at Joe Gibbs Racing.
After winning the pole in the Daytona 500 and finishing fourth, Nascar punished the team for an offense. The team later won its appeal and the penalty is gone, but Briscoe has not finished any better than the 14th since Daytona.
This is the second consecutive cup race on a 1.5 -mile highway.
Briscoe, who starts fourth in the contemporary race, said he should adapt to how things are done at JGR.
“I would say it was definitely a bigger adjustment than I thought it was going to be,” he said. “I thought I would just come in and I would just do my normal kind of management, and I would just go faster. There is definitely still so. Everywhere we went, I just did what’s coming naturally, and I’m just going to get faster and the car drives better and all that.
“It was the biggest difference to put everything well, and they really make me think about ‘you really need to focus on it. You can do it differently and do it differently ‘, and it’s just something I had to a certain extent with SHR, but never the detail I do now.
‘The last two weeks, especially last week in Vegas, I have never driven Vegas in my entire life. It was like going to a whole new racetrack. How different in the approach and how things I had to do differently. ‘
Briscoe participated in the Goodyear Tire test this week in Charlotte, along with Ryan Blaney and William Byron. Crew chief James Small said he wanted to do the test, to get ‘more rounds, work together and just understand, more (Briscoe) trying to understand how to adapt to us well.’
