The sixth spherical of the 2025 NASCAR Cup season takes place at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and based on metropolis officers on Wednesday, that continues to be unchanged regardless of ongoing brush fires within the surrounding space.
In a press release posted Wednesday night, the Metropolis of Homestead mentioned: “The NASCAR Cup Sequence occasions on the Homestead-Miami Speedway are set to proceed as scheduled.” The identical report warns in opposition to these with respiratory situations spending an excessive amount of time outdoors, and notes how the fires have been chargeable for temporary energy outages for Homestead residents.
The Homestead race monitor hosted NASCAR’s championship finale yearly between 2003 and 2019, however the circuit has moved round fairly a bit in recent times. As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, it was moved to June of 2020 earlier than turning into the third race of the yr in 2021. For the three years after that, it returned to the playoffs as one among three vital races within the penultimate spherical the place a win might assure a driver a spot within the Championship 4.
Nevertheless, the race returns to the early portion of the season this yr, working in March for the very first time in what would be the second-earliest the occasion has appeared on the NASCAR Cup schedule. It is a triple-header weekend as nicely with Cup, Xfinity, and Truck Sequence en path to Miami-Dade County.
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