Homestead-Miami Speedway 2025 NASCAR Track Profile

[Editor’s note: The following article is from Athlon Sports’ 2025 Racing Annual magazine. Order your copy online today, or buy one at retail racks and newsstands nationwide.]

This season delivers a major shakeup for Homestead-Miami Speedway, as its date moves from October to March. The playoffs will suffer for it, as this 1.5-mile oval is a favorite of drivers and fans alike. Its multiple lanes produce entertaining racing as whomever can ride the closest to the wall usually carves their way through the field.

From 2002-19, Homestead was the final race on the Cup schedule, witnessing numerous champions being crowned. The city is pushing for the championship race to return in 2026, and many believe the reason this date jumped to early in the 2025 schedule is so renovations can be made as part of that bid.

Denny Hamlin is the active leader in wins (3), top 5s (6), and top 10s (13) at Homestead. But in the three Next Gen races it’s been Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, and Tyler Reddick who’ve found themselves in victory lane. Reddick went from third to first on the final lap to win here in 2024, locking into the Championship 4 with a clutch performance.

Bell and AJ Allmendinger are tied for the best average finish in the Next Gen era (5.3). Allmendinger is the only driver to finish top 10 in all three of those races.

Expect to see Larson at the front at Homestead. The rim-rider leads active drivers with 626 laps led overall, 296 of them in the Next Gen era. He’s followed by Ryan Blaney (100) who has consecutive runner-up finishes at the track. His average finish of 7.0 is third-best among active drivers. Those two, along with Bell and Reddick, are the top contenders at Homestead. Although he crashed out in 2022, Reddick has finished top 3 the last two races here.

Homestead-Miami Speedway track info

Site: Homestead, Florida

Laps: 1.5-mile oval

Banking/Turns: Variable (18-20 degrees)

Banking/Straightaways: 3 degrees

2025 Date: March 23

Distance: 267 laps, 400.5 miles

2024 winner

Tyler Reddick

Scouting report

This is the track that every driver wishes was the championship venue. The surface is old and chews up tires, meaning that there is a speed disparity based on how much a driver can save rubber. There are four usable lanes from the apron to the wall and last year’s three-wide, playoff-altering finish reflected everything beloved about it. Drivers hate that it’s not in the playoffs, but the hope is that moving the race to the spring is in preparation for a renovation that will once again make it championship-eligible.