“Congratulations to Jimmie Johnson on capturing his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Johnson’s ferocity as a competitor is evident through his and the No. 48 team’s continued success. It demonstrates the great effort put forth throughout the entire season, including the finale and his ninth place finish in the race.”

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Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Quicken Loans Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), finished 17th in the Ford EcoBoost 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

The race marked Newman’s last as a member of SHR, as he moves to Richard Childress Racing in 2014. Newman scored eight poles and four wins, including the 20th running of the Brickyard 400 in August 2013, during his five-year tenure at SHR.

The Quicken Loans team made adjustments all race long but was unable to dial the handling of its red-and-white machine to Newman’s liking.

After starting 15th, an ill-handling racecar dropped Newman to 20th in the early going of the 267-lap race. Despite making many adjustments throughout the course of the event, crew chief Matt Borland was unable to come up with the combination needed to correct a handling condition that saw Newman’s No. 39 Chevrolet tight entering and in the center of the corners but loose on the exit.

Borland seemed to hit on a solid setup after a pit stop on lap 190 as the No. 39 climbed from the 21st position to 13th in just 10 laps. Newman continued to make forward progress, running as high as eighth on lap 219, before the handling characteristics changed once again, resulting in a loss of several positions over the closing laps of the race. Despite his best efforts, Newman was not able to overcome the ill handling that plagued his car for much of the race.

“That certainly wasn’t the way that we wanted to end the 2013 season,” Newman said. “We struggled with our Quicken Loans Chevrolet all weekend. We never could really get it where I needed it to be. I’ve got to thank Matt Borland (crew chief) and everyone on this No. 39 team for their hard work tonight and all season. We won the Brickyard 400, we made the Chase, I think we had top-10 finishes in half the races. We certainly can’t hang our heads about that. But as racers, you always want more. So I’m proud of what we were able to accomplish, but I certainly hoped we would be able to end the year on a higher note than we did.

“I’ve got to thank everyone at Stewart-Haas Racing for everything over the last five years. We didn’t reach all of the goals that we set out to, but we did accomplish a lot together. I’ve got to thank Quicken Loans, Outback Steakhouse, WIX Filters, Aspen Dental, Code 3 Associates, Haas Automation, State Water Heaters and all of the partners that supported me over the last five years.”

Newman’s teammate Mark Martin, interim driver of the No. 14 Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevrolet SS as he subbed for the injured Tony Stewart, finished 19th. The race was Martin’s 882nd career Sprint Cup start and his last scheduled Sprint Cup start in a career dating back to April 5, 1981, when he made his Sprint Cup debut at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway. Martin ends his NASCAR career with 1,144 starts across all NASCAR series, with 40 Sprint Cup wins, 49 Nationwide Series wins and seven Camping World Truck Series wins.

Danica Patrick, driver of the No. 10 GoDaddy Chevrolet SS for SHR, finished 20th. It was Patrick’s 46th career Sprint Cup start and her first at Homestead. Patrick, who competed for Rookie of the Year honors against Ricky Stenhouse Jr., finished two spots in the race ahead of Stenhouse, who placed 22nd.

Denny Hamlin won the Ford EcoBoost 400 to score his 23rd career Sprint Cup victory, his first of the season and his second at Homestead.

Matt Kenseth finished .799 of a second behind Hamlin in the runner-up spot, while Dale Earnhardt Jr., Martin Truex Jr. and Clint Bowyer rounded out the top-five. Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick comprised the remainder of the top-10.

There were eight caution periods for 37 laps, with five drivers failing to finish the 267-lap race around the 1.5-mile oval.

Newman represented SHR in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup and came into the final race of the 10-race Chase in 11th place among the 13 Chase drivers. He ended the season 11th in the standings.

Patrick finished the year 27th in the standings with 646 points. She finished runner-up to Stenhouse in the 2013 Rookie of the Year title.

Stewart, who was sidelined midway through the season with a broken right leg suffered in a sprint car crash Aug. 5, finished 29th with 594 points.

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Mark Martin’s last scheduled NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race came Sunday in the season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Driving the No. 14 Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) in place of the injured Tony Stewart, Martin finished a quiet 19^th in his 882^nd career Sprint Cup race.

Martin started 22^nd in the 43-car field and rallied to crack the top-10 with 70 laps to go in the 267-lap race. He thought his car was good enough to challenge the leaders as day faded to night and the track surface cooled.

“Let’s stick with the setup,” Martin said on lap 189. “We’ll wrestle it – old school. Leave it alone. Let me do the work.”

And just as he has since his Sprint Cup debut on April 5, 1981 at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway, Martin went to work.

But the grip Martin thought would be in the track as it cooled with the setting sun wasn’t there. Despite getting four new Goodyears during his final pit stop on lap 235, the Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevy struggled for traction on the 1.5-mile oval. Martin was 16^th for the race’s final restart on lap 240 but drifted to 19^th when the checkered flag dropped.

Martin ends his NASCAR career with 1,144 starts across all NASCAR series, with 40 Sprint Cup wins, 49 Nationwide Series wins and seven Camping World Truck Series wins.

“It is hard to believe that I’ve lived this dream,” Martin said. “I’m so fortunate. I got two chances at it. I got a chance at it and had success and failed, and had to go and start my career all over again and spend several years getting back up on my feet and getting a second opportunity in NASCAR. It is really hard to believe. I am still – deep down inside – I’m still the kid from Arkansas that got the huge thrill the first time I went to Daytona as a spectator to watch the Daytona 500. I wasn’t even a teenager yet. I never dreamed I would be able to do the things that I’ve done and to have the success that I’ve had. It’s been a dream. Living a dream.”

Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Quicken Loans Chevrolet SS for SHR, finished 17^th. The race marked Newman’s last as a member of SHR, as he moves to Richard Childress Racing in 2014. Newman scored eight poles and four wins, including the 20^th running of the Brickyard 400 in August 2013, during his five-year tenure at SHR.

Danica Patrick, driver of the No. 10 GoDaddy Chevrolet SS for SHR, finished 20^th. It was Patrick’s 46^th career Sprint Cup start and her first at Homestead. Patrick, who competed for Rookie of the Year honors against Ricky Stenhouse Jr., finished two spots in the race ahead of Stenhouse, who placed 22^nd.

Denny Hamlin won the Ford EcoBoost 400 to score his 23^rd career Sprint Cup victory, his first of the season and his second at Homestead.

Matt Kenseth finished .799 of a second behind Hamlin in the runner-up spot, while Dale Earnhardt Jr., Martin Truex Jr. and Clint Bowyer rounded out the top-five. Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick comprised the remainder of the top-10.

There were eight caution periods for 37 laps, with five drivers failing to finish.

Newman represented SHR in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. He came into the final race of the 10-race Chase in 11^th place among the 13 Chase drivers and maintained that position after Homestead.

Patrick ended the year 27^th in the standings and finished runner-up to Stenhouse in the 2013 Rookie of the Year title.

Stewart, who was sidelined midway through the season with a broken right leg suffered in a sprint car crash Aug. 5, finished 29^th in points.

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Trevor Bayne and his No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion were poised to make a bid for a top-10 finish in the season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400 when engine failure ended their charge and left them with a disappointing 40th-place finish.

Bayne started the finale of Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway from the 17^th starting position and ran around 20^th place in the early stages of the race. Each time he made a pit stop, his Donnie Wingo-led crew made adjustments to his car, and he began to move up through the field.

With a little more than 50 laps to go he was running 11^th, but his time there was short-lived.

The first sign of trouble was when the engine’s oil pressure began dropping. That was followed by a loss of power, and then lap times dropped off by about three seconds.

“We had a good run going, and then we had engine issues,” said team co-owner Len Wood. “Unfortunately, you’ll have things like that happen sometimes.”
 
It was just the second time this season that the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Fusion failed to finish a race.
 
Wood said that overall he was pleased with his team’s performance. “We felt good about getting a top-10 finish,” he said. “We were off a little in the beginning, but we were able to make the car better throughout the race.”
 
Wood went on to say that he was glad to end the 2013 Sprint Cup season on a high note, performance-wise, even if the final result didn’t reflect it.
 
“I don’t think any of our teammates had the season we were looking for,” he said. “But I’m proud of our team and the work they’ve done this year.”
 
He said his team is now focused on the season-opening Daytona 500 and preparing for the team’s 61st year of Sprint Cup competition and its 64^th in the sport.
 
“We’ve already had meetings about 2014,” he said. “We'll soon be getting ready for Daytona.”

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Danica Patrick, driver of the No. 10 GoDaddy Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), finished 20^th in the season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Patrick, who started 24^th, twice went a lap down to the leaders. But she rallied both times to return to the lead lap via the “Lucky Dog” rule, which states the first car one lap down when the caution comes out gets its lap back.

“I’m proud of the GoDaddy guys,” said Patrick, who made her 46^th Sprint Cup start and her first at Homestead. “They gave me a good, consistent car that drove well. Tony Gibson (crew chief) made great calls all night, and the pit crew was outstanding, as they always are. The handling and the balance were good all night, and we did a good job of keeping up with the track and changes that needed to be made. It was a solid run for us – a good way to end the year and go into the offseason.”

Patrick, who was competing for Rookie of the Year honors against Ricky Stenhouse Jr., finished two spots in the race ahead of Stenhouse, who placed 22^nd. Patrick finished the season 27^th in the point standings with 646 points. She finished runner-up to Stenhouse for 2013 Rookie of the Year title.

Patrick’s teammate, Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Quicken Loans Chevrolet SS, finished 17^th. The third member of SHR, Mark Martin, interim driver of SHR’s No. 14 Mobil 1/Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet SS as he subs for the injured Tony Stewart, finished 19^th.

Denny Hamlin won the Ford EcoBoost 400 to score his 23^rd career Sprint Cup victory, his first of the season and his second at Homestead.

Matt Kenseth finished .799 of a second behind Hamlin in the runner-up spot, while Dale Earnhardt Jr., Martin Truex Jr. and Clint Bowyer rounded out the top-five. Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick comprised the remainder of the top-10.

There were eight caution periods for 37 laps, with five drivers failing to finish the 267-lap race.

Newman represented SHR in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup and came into the final race of the 10-race Chase in 11^th place among the 13 Chase drivers. He ended the season 11^th in the standings with 2,286 points.

This was the sixth Sprint Cup title for Johnson, one shy of the record of seven Sprint Cup championships earned by NASCAR Hall of Famers Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt.

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Jimmie Johnson took another step closer to stock car racing history on Sunday, claiming his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway.

Johnson, who entered the race with a 28-point lead over 2003 series champion Matt Kenseth, finished ninth in the Ford EcoBoost 400, putting his final margin over Kenseth at 19 points.

The championship is a record-extending 11th in the series for Hendrick Motorsports. Rick Hendrick’s organization also won four titles with Jeff Gordon, co-owner of Johnson’s No. 48 Chevrolet, and one with Terry Labonte. Johnson’s crew chief, Chad Knaus, has led the team to all six titles.

The 38-year-old Johnson is one of three competitors to win six or more NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships. He trails only seven-time champions and NASCAR Hall of Fame members Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt.

Johnson’s five previous championships – all consecutive – came from 2006-2010. He has finished first or second in eight of the 12 seasons in which he’s been a full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competitor. His 66 victories rank second among active drivers, behind only Hendrick Motorsports teammate Gordon’s 88 wins.

Johnson’s six championships have come in three distinctly different NASCAR Sprint Cup cars – including the Gen-6 Chevrolet SS that debuted this season.

After winning his second Daytona 500 to open the season, Johnson led the series standings after all but three races during the NASCAR Sprint Cup regular season. He entered the 10-race Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup as the No. 2 seed – behind Kenseth – with four victories. A dominant victory on Nov. 3 at Texas Motor Speedway gave Johnson the Chase lead for good.

In addition, Chevrolet won its 37th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series manufacturers’ championship.

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NEWS & NOTES
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SIX-PACK: Jimmie Johnson, driver of the No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet SS for Hendrick Motorsports, extended his lead among active drivers and inched closer to catching Hall of Famers Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. after earning his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title with a ninth-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday. Petty and Earnhardt have seven titles apiece, followed by Johnson with six. Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon ranks fourth all-time with four.

11TH TITLE FOR HENDRICK: Johnson’s 2013 Sprint Cup title is the 11th for Hendrick Motorsports and car owner Rick Hendrick. Hendrick is the all-time leader in Sprint Cup owner championships and remains the only owner to win titles with three different drivers: Johnson (6), Gordon (4) and Terry Labonte.

ALL-TIME CHAMPIONSHIPS: The 2013 Sprint Cup car owner championship is the 14th for Hendrick Motorsports across NASCAR's three national series, extending the team's all-time record. Richard Childress Racing ranks second among owners with 12 combined titles. In the car owner category, Hendrick Motorsports has won 11 titles in the Sprint Cup Series and three in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Hendrick Motorsports also has won a NASCAR Nationwide Series driver championship, which came in 2003.

NEVER STOP IMPROVING: Lowe’s has been the primary sponsor for Johnson since the No. 48 team’s inception in 2001. Since then, the home improvement retailer has been on board for all six Sprint Cup championships, 66 victories and numerous milestones, including two wins in the Daytona 500 and four in the Brickyard 400. Hendrick Motorsports’ relationship with Lowe’s is one of the longest-running driver-team-sponsor partnerships in NASCAR.

KNAUS SETS THE STANDARD: With six career Sprint Cup championships, crew chief Chad Knaus ranks second all-time behind only Hall of Famer Dale Inman, who has eight Cup titles as a crew chief. Knaus holds the distinction of being the only crew chief to win more than two Sprint Cup titles in a row, a feat he accomplished when he coached the No. 48 team to five straight from 2006-2010.

KNAUS’ CAREER: Knaus has led the No. 48 team since Johnson’s rookie season in the Sprint Cup Series in 2002. In that 12-year span, he has helped Johnson achieve six titles and an average finish of 2.4 in the championship standings. The duo never has finished lower than sixth in Cup points.

YOUNGEST TO SIX: At 38 years and 61 days old, Johnson is the youngest driver (by 83 days) to win six Sprint Cup championships. At 38 years and 144 days old, Petty earned his sixth title in 1975, a little more than two months after Johnson was born. Earnhardt was 42 when he won his sixth title in 1993.

HALL OF FAME VOTE: Johnson will be the first active athlete to have a say in his sport’s Hall of Fame voting process. He will cast a ballot for the 2015 NASCAR Hall of Fame class thanks to a new provision that includes the reigning Sprint Cup champion in the process.

CUP VICTORIES: Hendrick Motorsports has tallied 218 Cup victories in 30 seasons, a figure that leads all teams in the modern era and ranks second all-time behind Petty Enterprises (268 wins). This season, Hendrick Motorsports posted nine victories with the new Generation-6 Chevrolet SS race car.

COMPARISONS: In the major American professional sports leagues, Hendrick Motorsports' 11 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships are tied for seventh all-time behind the New York Yankees (27 World Series titles), Montreal Canadiens (24 Stanley Cup titles), Boston Celtics (17 NBA titles), Los Angeles Lakers (16 NBA titles), Toronto Maple Leafs (13 Stanley Cup titles) and Green Bay Packers (13 NFL championships). Hendrick Motorsports is tied with the Detroit Red Wings (11 Stanley Cup titles) and St. Louis Cardinals (11 World Series titles).

CHAMPIONSHIP STREAKS: Prior to Johnson's run of five consecutive Sprint Cup titles from 2006-2010, Hendrick Motorsports scored four in a row from 1995-1998 with Gordon (1995, 1997 and 1998) and Labonte (1996). No other organization has won more than three Sprint Cup championships in consecutive seasons.

WINNING PERCENTAGE: Hendrick Motorsports is the most efficient team in major American professional sports, earning 11 titles since its inception in 1984 for a 36.7 all-time title-winning percentage. The Boston Celtics rank second with 17 NBA titles in 67 seasons (25.37 percent), while the Montreal Canadiens are third with 24 Stanley Cup titles in 95 seasons (25.26 percent). The New York Yankees rank fourth with 27 World Series championships in 113 seasons (23.89 percent). Hendrick Motorsports has won 11 of the last 19 Sprint Cup championships (1995-2013), putting the team's title-winning percentage during that span at 57.9.

SINCE 1984: No other major American professional sports team has earned more championships than Hendrick Motorsports since 1984, the organization's inaugural season. In that time, the Los Angeles Lakers have earned eight NBA championships and the Chicago Bulls have recorded six. Both the New York Yankees and Edmonton Oilers have tallied five titles apiece since 1984.

ROAD WARRIOR: Apart from Johnson and Knaus, car chief Ron Malec is the only member of the No. 48 Lowe’s team who has been on the road crew for all six championships. Malec started working as a mechanic with Johnson in the ASA Series in the late 1990s. When Johnson joined Hendrick Motorsports, Malec also came on board. As car chief, he manages the crew members who work on the car both at the shop in Concord, N.C., and during the race weekend. He is responsible for the preparation of the race car and seeing it through technical inspection.

STILL ROLLING: Hendrick Motorsports never has run a Sprint Cup campaign without winning a pole position, recording at least one in 30 consecutive seasons (1984-2013). The team scored seven in 2013, including three from Johnson, two from Dale Earnhardt Jr. and two from Gordon.

WIN STREAK: Hendrick Motorsports has posted at least one Cup-level win in 28 straight seasons, the longest active streak in NASCAR. The streak began Feb. 16, 1986, when Geoff Bodine won Hendrick Motorsports’ first Daytona 500.

ANOTHER ONE FOR CHEVY: Chevrolet captured its 37th Sprint Cup manufacturers' championship and 11th straight this season after winning 15 races. Johnson led all Chevy drivers this year with six victories, including the 2013 Daytona 500, as he helped the manufacturer record its first title with the Chevrolet SS race car that debuted this season. Kasey Kahne contributed two victories to the total, while Gordon recorded one.

YEAR IN REVIEW: For the second straight season, all four Hendrick Motorsports drivers were contenders in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. The organization posted nine victories and seven pole positions as its drivers finished inside the top 12 in the championship hunt. Johnson finished first, followed by Earnhardt (fifth), Gordon (sixth) and Kahne (12th).

30TH ANNIVERSARY: Next season, Hendrick Motorsports will celebrate its 30th anniversary in NASCAR. The organization began in 1984 with five employees and 5,000 square feet of work space. It has grown to more than 500 employees with a 430,000-square-foot facility that sits on 140 acres.

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Blake Koch and the RAB Racing No. 99 CompassionRacing.com, GodSpeaks.com Toyota Camry had something to prove going into the NASCAR Nationwide Series season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Saturday, November 16. Koch started on the front row for the first time in his NASCAR career, and finished in the 11th position after restarting in the 21st position with five laps remaining.

On Friday, Koch made it known throughout the garage area that he was a contender when he completed the seventh-fastest lap in the first practice session and the fifth-fastest lap in the second and final practice session. This raw speed translated into Koch and the No. 99 team qualifying in the second position, a mere .01 seconds off of the pole-winning lap time set by Sam Hornish Jr. The second-fastest lap in qualifying was RAB Racing's seventh top-10 starting position of the 2013 racing season.

The green flag flew on the 300-mile event and Koch immediately started racing side-by-side with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series veterans and held on to a top-10 position for most of the first half of the event. Laps 48-99 saw four caution periods and with each restart the action intensified with Koch still trying to familiarize himself with a car he'd never raced. The No. 99 slid back to the 21st position by the halfway point, with the balance of the car worsening as a result of turbulent air caused by the large pack of cars that were in front. Koch picked up positions on the track and in the pits and by lap 143 the No. 99 had worked its way back into the top 15, but received extensive front-end damage from the car directly in front hitting the wall and losing speed. The damage sent the No. 99 to the pits multiple times in an effort to fix the damage, but lost all the positions that were made up on the track, sending Koch back to the 26th position with a small handful of laps left in the event. Although the situation wasn't ideal, Koch and the CompassionRacing.com Toyota Camry team never gave up, and after a lengthy caution period and restarting in the 21st position with five laps remaining Koch made a comeback for the ages. In the final five laps Koch aggressively made it three and sometimes even four wide finishing in the 11th position, the best result in his five-year NASCAR career. The 11th-place finish was RAB Racing's 19th top-15 finish of the 32 race schedule.

Blake Koch: "I can't thank RAB Racing enough for the opportunity to get my career-best finish and start on the front row here at my hometown track. A big thank you goes to Robby Benton, my crew chief Chris Rice, everyone at CompassionRacing.com and GodSpeaks.com for putting this together and allowing me to show my talents in great equipment. Not only did we compete at the highest level but we brought awareness to CompassionRacing.com and helped a lot of children in poverty. We could have easily finished in the top 10 if it weren't for the damage we received to the front end of the car. I was racing for the 15th position and the car right infront of me slammed the wall and lost all his speed, I had nowhere to go and made contact with the back of his car. The damage we received to the front changed the balance and performance of the car. We had to give up all the positions we worked so hard to gain on the track, to come into the pits and repair it the best we could. My team never gave up and pushed me in the closing laps, I can't remember having that much fun in a race car."

With the 11th-place finish owner Robby Benton finished the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series season in the 16th position in owner point standings. Blake Koch gained two positions in the driver point standings to finish the season in the 25th position.

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Justin Allgaier started his final race of the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) season on Saturday afternoon at Homestead-Miami Speedway (HMS). After two practice sessions on Friday afternoon, Allgaier qualified his No. 31 BRANDT Professional Agriculture Chevrolet Camaro in the 14th position for the Ford EcoBoost 300. Allgaier maintained a top-10 position for a majority of the day until a blown tire caused him to make contact with the wall, damaging his BRANDT Chevy. After battling his racecar in the closing laps, Allgaier drove the BRANDT Chevy home to a 19th-place finish for Turner Scott Motorsports.

After rolling off 14th, Allgaier worked his way up to the 10th position on lap 23 and radioed in that his BRANDT Chevy was starting to get tight. When the first caution flew at lap 48, Allgaier relayed to crew chief Scott Zipadelli that his car was loose in and tight in the center. Allgaier came down pit road for four Goodyear tires, Sunoco fuel and adjustments. Allgaier restarted in the ninth position and communicated to his team that his car was really good on lap 69. Allgaier maintained the ninth position until the fourth caution of the race at lap 99 when he radioed in that his BRANDT Chevy was good and he just needed track position. During the caution, Allgaier brought his car down pit road for fuel, four tires and an air-pressure adjustment.

Allgaier restarted in the eighth position on lap 103, and was in the seventh position on lap 122 when the fifth caution was displayed. Allgaier reported his car had lost grip and he came down pit road for fuel and four tires. He restarted in eighth position and after another quick caution he was in the sixth position when the seventh caution came out on lap 150. Allgaier reported his car was good and he brought it down pit road for fuel and four fresh tires. After varying pit strategies, Allgaier restarted 12th on lap 154. After another quick caution, Allgaier was in the seventh position on lap 177 when his tire blew causing him to hit the wall and spin out, ultimately bringing out the ninth caution. Under caution, Allgaier made two pit stops to change four tires, add fuel and repair fender damage. He restarted in the 26th position on lap 183. After the final caution of the race on lap 184, Allgaier finished the 200-lap race in the 19th position with a damaged BRANDT Chevy at HMS. After Saturday's race, Allgaier finished fifth in the NNS Driver Point Standings.   

"We had a good weekend at Homestead [Miami Speedway]," said Allgaier. "My guys worked really hard and set the BRANDT Chevy up to be really good on long green-flag runs. We had a great car during the race and unfortunately something out of our control like a blown tire ended our good run. I have to thank BRANDT, SEM, AccuDoc Solutions and Wolf Pack Energy Services, without great sponsor like them we wouldn't be able to do this. I also want to thank Harry Scott Jr. and Steve Turner, and everyone else at Turner Scott Motorsports. They all worked really hard this season to give me the best equipment."

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