Fantasy Racing Scouting Report – Homestead-Miami

This post a recap of how the 2013 Homestead-Miami NASCAR race transpired.

Homestead NASCAR Top Ten Starters

1. Matt Kenseth
2. Kurt Busch
3. Joey Logano
4. Brad Keselowski
5. Denny Hamlin
6. Kevin Harvick
7. Jimmie Johnson
8. Martin Truex Jr.
9. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
10. Elliott Sadler

Homestead Full Qualifying Results

Pre-Race notes

Kyle Larson drove the #51

Elliott Sadler drove the #55

Mark Martin drove the #14

Juan Pablo Montoya drove the #42

Jeff Burton drove the #31

Tires were very extremly important in the race.

Race Notes

Matt Kenseth won the pole and selected the outside lane. He led the first 11 laps.

Jimmie Johnson liked running the middle to low-line early.

Travis Kvapil brought out the first caution about 10 laps into the race after he got into the wall.

Following the first caution Denny Hamlin was in the lead because he elected not to pit. On the restart he fell back about 6 positions during the first lap. He was back to 19th in about 12 laps.

Running order on lap 23: 20,48,2,29,22,78,88,99,27,16 … 5,56,18,31,43,24,17,39,11,14 … 14,15,42,55,47,21

Travis Kvapil brought out another caution on lap 24.

Around lap 40 AJ Allmendinger went to the garage to fix a broken shock mount. When he came back out he was 11 laps down.

Running order on lap 46: 20,48,18,2,24,56,27,29,88,22 … 78,99,5,11,17,39,14,15,43,31 … 51,21,16,9,42,55,10,1,13,30

Jeff Gordon was fast over long runs 50 laps into the race.

On lap 66 green flag pit stops started. On lap 68 the caution came out. Drivers who pitted prior to the caution were Jamie McMurray, Marcos Ambrose, Juan Pablo Montoya and Jeff Burton.

During the lap 68 caution Danica Patrick had equipment leave her pit box and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got busted speeding on pit road. They were both penalized.