NASCAR UNVEILS 2015 SCHEDULES FOR TOP THREE SERIES
2015 Ford Championship Weekend to be held November 20-22
MIAMI – In 2015, for the 14th
consecutive year, Homestead-Miami Speedway will host the Championship
finales in all three
of NASCAR’s premier series – the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and
Camping World Truck Series. NASCAR today announced all three schedules
for the 2015 season, including the season-ending races, which will take
place at Homestead-Miami Speedway the weekend
of November 20-22, 2015. For the first time since 2012, race weekend
will fall immediately prior to the Thanksgiving holiday.
“We
are extremely proud to host NASCAR’s finales in all three of its
premier series for an unprecedented 14 consecutive years,”
Homestead-Miami
Speedway President Matthew Becherer said. “South Florida is a
championship town, having played host to numerous Super Bowls, NBA
Finals, World Series, college football championship games, and NASCAR’s
championship weekend every year since 2002. We are also
excited to host Ford Championship Weekend on the weekend before
Thanksgiving in 2015, giving race fans who come from out of town an
entire week to celebrate and enjoy South Florida.”
New
to the NASCAR schedule for 2015 is the addition of NBC Sports as a
broadcast partner. Along with FOX, NBC and NBC Sports Network
will televise the Sprint Cup Series schedule starting next year. FOX
will air the first 16 races, while NBC will broadcast the final 20,
including the Ford EcoBoost 400 on Sunday, November 22 on NBC network
television for the first time since 2009.
The
2015 NASCAR Nationwide Series finale will also be broadcast on NBC
national television, and the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck
Series finale will be broadcast on FOX Sports 1.
Homestead-Miami
Speedway has hosted NASCAR’s Championship races every year since 2002,
including all 10 (2004-13) of the Chase for
the NASCAR Sprint Cup finales in NASCAR’s premier series. Fans have
been witness to several historic Championship moments, including all six
of Jimmie Johnson’s Cup titles, the tiebreaker between Carl Edwards and
Tony Stewart in 2011, and Kurt Busch hoisting
the first Chase hardware in 2004 after holding off Jimmie Johnson and
Jeff Gordon in the last lap to win the title by a margin of eight
points.
The
2014 Ford EcoBoost 400 will again serve as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Championship race. However, for the first time in NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series history, four drivers will battle it out for the
title at Homestead-Miami Speedway, following a three-round, nine-race
elimination series in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Driving in a
race-within-a-race, the four drivers will compete
in a full 43-car field, and fans will have the opportunity to be a
witness to the historic finish to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series that can
only be seen at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The
2014 Ford Championship Weekend will be held on November 14-16 at
Homestead-Miami Speedway, and will be the host of the NASCAR
Nationwide Series finale, as well as the NASCAR Camping World Truck
Series finale, in addition to the Sprint Cup Series championship. For
ticket purchases and more information about 2014 Ford Championship
Weekend, visit
www.HomesteadMiamiSpeedway.com, or call (866)
409-RACE (7223).
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