Homestead-Miami Speedway

Homestead-Miami Speedway sits south of Miami in Homestead, Florida, and opened in 1995 — best known ever since as a NASCAR oval. But the 3.56-kilometre, 13-turn configuration used here is the venue's original road course, in use ever since and laid out largely within the infield. It is flat and technical by design, a deliberate contrast to the high-banked speedway it shares a footprint with. The facility has used more than one road-course configuration over the years; this is the original.

Unlike Road Atlanta's Esses or Spa's Eau Rouge, Homestead's infield road course doesn't carry a set of widely documented individual corner names — its identity comes from the layout as a whole: a flat, infield-based circuit, distinct from the two other road-course configurations the venue has used over the years. What it lacks in famous corners it makes up for in tight, technical sequences that reward precision over outright speed, a different discipline entirely from the banking a few hundred metres away.

Opened in 1995 as a symbol of Miami's recovery after Hurricane Andrew, Homestead-Miami Speedway pairs a banked oval with a technical infield road course. Warm in December when the rest of the racing world has gone dark, it is the natural place to crown a champion — under the South Florida lights, with the season's last points on the table.

The championship finale as a celebration: a night-lit road course and a Miami marquee to send off the season.

Homestead-Miami Speedway opened in 1995 and became best known as a NASCAR oval — it hosted the NASCAR Cup Series championship finale from 2004 to 2019, and the format returns in 2026. Away from the oval, the venue's road-course configurations have carried FIA GT Championship racing (1998–99) and IMSA/Rolex Sports Car Series rounds (1998, 2000–2012), and in 2025 hosted Formula E's Miami ePrix on a newer layout — three decades of the same South Florida site hosting two very different kinds of racing side by side.

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