2016 Ford EcoBoost 400

The 2016 Ford EcoBoost 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on November 20, 2016, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. Contested over 268 laps – extended from 267 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) oval, it was the 36th and final race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Jimmie Johnson won the race, and with it his seventh career Cup championship, tying him with Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty for most Cup championships of all time.

2016 Ford EcoBoost 400

Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Race 36 of 36 in the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Date	November 20, 2016
Location	Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Distance	268 laps, 402 mi (643.2 km)
Scheduled Distance	267 laps, 400.5 mi (640.8 km)
Weather	Temperatures hovering around 68.7 °F (20.4 °C); wind speeds up to 12.7 miles per hour (20.4 km/h)[11]
Average speed	128.869 miles per hour (207.395 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing
Time	30.399
Most laps led
Driver	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing
Laps	132
Winner
No. 48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network	NBC
Announcers	Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte
Nielsen Ratings	3.3/7 (Overnight)[12] 3.5/8 (Final)[13] 6.1 million viewers[13]
Radio in the United States
Radio	MRN
Booth Announcers	Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace
Turn Announcers	Dave Moody (1 & 2) and Mike Bagley (3 & 4)

It also marked the final race for Sprint as the series sponsor, having been the Cup Series’ title sponsor since 2008, after buying out Nextel in late 2005. Monster Energy replaced Sprint as title sponsor for the series for 2017.

This was the final race for three-time champion and Hall of Fame inductee Tony Stewart. It was also the final race for Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle.

Report

Tony Stewart's final race

The race marked the final start of three-time Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart after a farewell tour (of which he missed the first nine races due to a Non-NASCAR racing accident), which took place a year after that of Jeff Gordon. Despite missing the first nine races due to a non-NASCAR racing accident, Stewart made the Chase with a win at Sonoma, but was eliminated in the first round. He started this race 11th, but finished 22nd.

Background

Homestead-Miami Speedway, the track where the race was held.

Homestead-Miami Speedway is a motor racing track located in Homestead, Florida. The track, which has several configurations, has promoted several series of racing, including NASCAR, the Verizon IndyCar Series, the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and the Championship Cup Series.

Since 2002, Homestead-Miami Speedway has hosted the final race of the season in all three of NASCAR's series: the Sprint Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series. Ford Motor Company sponsors all three of the season-ending races; the races have the names Ford EcoBoost 400, Ford EcoBoost 300 and Ford EcoBoost 200, respectively, and the weekend is marketed as Ford Championship Weekend. The Xfinity Series (then known as the Busch Series) has held its season-ending races at Homestead since 1995.

Championship drivers

Jimmie Johnson was the first of the four drivers to clinch a spot in the Championship 4, winning the first race of the Round of 8 at Martinsville.[14]

Carl Edwards clinched the second spot in the Championship 4, winning the second race of the Round of 8 at Texas.[15]

Joey Logano clinched the third spot in the Championship 4, winning the third and final race of the Round of 8 at Phoenix.[16]

Kyle Busch, the defending Cup champion, clinched the final spot, finishing second behind Logano at Phoenix to clinch his spot in the championship race.[17]

Entry list

No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet
2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford
3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford
7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet
10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet
14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet
16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford
17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford
18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford
22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford
23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota
24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
30	Gray Gaulding	The Motorsports Group	Chevrolet
31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
32	Dylan Lupton (i)	Go FAS Racing	Ford
34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet
43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford
44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford
46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet
47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet
48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
49	Matt DiBenedetto	BK Racing	Toyota
55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Toyota
59	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet
78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota
83	Jeffrey Earnhardt (R)	BK Racing	Toyota
88	Alex Bowman (i)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
95	Ty Dillon (i)	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet
Official entry list

First practice

Ryan Newman was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 30.789 and a speed of 175.387 mph (282.258 km/h).[18]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time	Speed
1	31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	30.789	175.387
2	78	Martin Truex, Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	30.795	175.353
3	42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	30.812	175.256
Official first practice results

Qualifying

Kevin Harvick scored the pole position.

Kevin Harvick scored the pole for the race with a time of 30.399 and a speed of 177.737 mph (286.040 km/h).[19] He said he was "just so proud of everybody on this Jimmy John’s Chevrolet team. They want to come to the race track and bring good race cars and perform well. Just real proud of that. That’s awesome. I didn’t know if we had a chance at the pole with as fast as the No. 24 (Chase Elliott) had been. But I knew if we could just run the same speed every round, that is half the battle because you never know how much it is going to slow down for everybody else, and it doesn’t take much to make a mistake. Really proud of everybody on our Jimmy John’s team.”[20]

Qualifying results

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	R1	R2	R3
1	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	30.616	30.406	30.399
2	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	30.412	30.456	30.416
3	31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	30.470	30.546	30.442
4	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	30.758	30.506	30.475
5	24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.217	30.243	30.492
6	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	30.698	30.445	30.513
7	20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	30.699	30.492	30.594
8	21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	30.678	30.390	30.610
9	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	30.766	30.466	30.689
10	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	30.595	30.427	30.749
11	14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	30.717	30.552	30.861
12	47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	30.652	30.467	30.887
13	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	30.514	30.571
14	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.816	30.635
15	1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	30.832	30.636
16	41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	30.527	30.639
17	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	30.642	30.661
18	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	30.794	30.688
19	88	Alex Bowman (i)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.761	30.742
20	6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	30.773	30.763
21	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	30.793	30.854
22	44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	30.828	30.860
23	13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet	30.769	30.862
24	42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	30.648	31.078
25	43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	30.841
26	59	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet	30.862
27	34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	30.863
28	27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	30.876
29	5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.911
30	10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	30.916
31	49	Matt DiBenedetto (i)	BK Racing	Toyota	30.980
32	38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	31.030
33	15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	31.043
34	95	Ty Dillon (i)	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet	31.071
35	7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet	31.087
36	23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota	31.299
37	55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	31.657
38	83	Jeffrey Earnhardt (R)	BK Racing	Toyota	32.012
39	32	Dylan Lupton (i)	Go FAS Racing	Ford	32.523
40	46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	32.558
Did not qualify
41	30	Gray Gaulding	The Motorsports Group	Chevrolet	31.965
Official qualifying results

Practice (post-qualifying)

Second practice

Jimmie Johnson was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 30.973 and a speed of 174.345 mph (280.581 km/h).[21]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time	Speed
1	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.973	174.345
2	24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	31.154	173.332
3	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	31.223	172.949
Official second practice results

Final practice

Martin Truex, Jr. was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 30.983 and a speed of 174.289 mph (280.491 km/h).[22]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time	Speed
1	78	Martin Truex, Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	30.983	174.289
2	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	31.029	174.031
3	31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	31.264	172.723
Official final practice results

Race

First half

Under mostly sunny Florida skies, Kevin Harvick led the field to the green flag at 3:24 p.m. The first caution of the race flew on lap 27 for Ryan Blaney crashing hard into the outside wall in turn 1. Denny Hamlin led a lap under the caution after missing the entrance to pit road. He pitted the next time by and handed the lead back to Harvick.

The race restarted on lap 32. Carl Edwards nudged Harvick in turn 4 to take the lead on lap 33. Harvick took it back on lap 35. A cycle of green flag stops started on lap 68. Harvick pitted from the lead the following lap and handed it to Edwards. He pitted on lap 72 and the lead cycled back to Harvick.

The second caution flew on lap 80 after Jeffrey Earnhardt spun out in turn 4.[23]

The race restarted on lap 86 and Joey Logano beat Harvick to take over the lead. Edwards took the lead on lap 92. Kyle Larson worked his way through the field, catching Carl Edwards and passing him on the outside in turn 4 to take the lead on lap 119 just as another cycle of green flag stops started. Following the cycle, Edwards returned to the lead. A. J. Allmendinger was given a drive-through penalty for an uncontrolled tire.

Second half

Jimmie Johnson won the race to claim a record-tying seventh Cup Series championship title.

Larson retook the lead on lap 126. Kyle Busch made an unscheduled stop for what he thought was a flat right-front tire on lap 137, only to find out a few laps later the tire wasn't flat. Another round of green flag stops commenced on lap 153 and Larson retained the lead through the cycle.

Debris in turn 1 brought out the third caution on lap 171.

The race restarted on lap 171. The fourth caution flew with 61 laps to go for Blaney again crashing hard in turn 1

The race restarted with 55 to go. The fifth caution flew with 15 to go for Dylan Lupton spinning in turn 2.[24]

The race restarted with 10 to go and the sixth caution flew right away for a multi-car wreck in turn 1. On the restart, Edwards went low to block Logano's advance.[25] But in doing so, he came across Logano's nose and got spun into the inside wall.[26] His now destroyed car continued up the track and was lifted into the air after being rear-ended by Kasey Kahne's car.[27] Regan Smith was also collected by the wreck.[28] Edwards walked from his wrecked car to the pit box of the 22 team to explain to Todd Gordon (Logano's crew chief) what happened.[29] He said what happened "was just good hard racing, and it was my deal, I own it. I had to block Joey to have any chance at winning the championship. I couldn’t have gone to bed tonight if I had given up that lane to him.”[30] Logano's car continued, got tapped by Edwards's car and sent into his teammate, Brad Keselowski's car.[31] This sent Brad into the wall along with Ryan Newman.[32] Martin Truex Jr. was also collected and his car burst into flames.[33] It brought out the red flag for 31 minutes and nine seconds.[34]

The race restarted with five to go and the seventh caution flew for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. getting loose, spinning out in turn 2, turning down the track and hitting the inside wall on the backstretch.[35]

Overtime

The race restarted in overtime with two laps to go. Jimmie Johnson took the lead from Larson coming to the white flag and drove on to score the victory and his seventh Sprint Cup Series championship.[36]

Driver comments

After the race, an overwhelmed Johnson said "my gosh, there is no, no way on earth. Just beyond words. Just didn't think the race was unfolding for us like we needed to do to be the champs, but we just kept our heads in the game. Chad called a great strategy, made some great adjustments for the short runs. Luck came our way and we were able to win the race and win the championship. I wouldn't be here without so many people believing in me and giving me this chance. From my dirt days - my parents first and foremost. My brothers. My wife and family today. Car owners, sponsors, Chevrolet, Lowe's, so many amazing people along the way that believed in me to give me this chance. Jeff Gordon, Rick Hendrick, all the men and women at Hendrick Motorsports for working so hard to get these cars fast and giving me an awesome 15 years with the company. Just thank you. From the bottom of my heart. Thank you. So thrilled to be in this moment., So grateful for the opportunity and so thankful and blessed. I am at a loss for words.”[37] He also wasn't shy about wanting to go for an eighth championship, saying he didn't "know what the chances [were], but let's go. I'm so excited to put that in front of myself and the team as a hurdle to get over and an accomplishment to achieve."[38]

Mentor and former teammate Jeff Gordon said he was "just in disbelief the way this race unfolded.…Jimmie wanted that thing. He wanted that seventh championship and he got that seventh championship done. He deserves it. Just an amazing experience."[39]

Teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr., gauging from the largely supportive fan reaction, said he thought "people are coming around [to liking Johnson]. He's always had a great understanding with his people, his fans. Now others are realizing how great he is. I can tell you this. I have no doubt that you can take Jimmie, my dad and Richard Petty and they would have won championships races whenever and wherever they raced. If Jimmie had raced against Dad, Dad wouldn't have won seven championships; and if Dad had raced against Jimmie, he wouldn't have won seven championships. Again, I think people are coming around. I hope so."[40]

Michael McDowell, who earned his fourth career top-10 finish, said "it’s good momentum. Everybody at Circle Sport Leavine Family Racing we’ve been making great progress. Todd Parrott and all the guys at [CSLFR] gave me a great car today. We were up in the top 16-17. A little attrition there at the end, it got crazy. Great restart that last restart, my lane went and snuck out a top-10 pretty cool."[41]

Tony Stewart came home 22nd in his final Sprint Cup Series race.[42] He was as fiery and temperamental as ever in his final start while cursing on his radio channel over a NASCAR-mandated lineup change, saying he "raced. I did what I do every time I get in the car. I didn’t think of anything else other than just racing the race. We got behind there and we tried something to make ground and got caught out and had to run 60 laps on a set of tires. At the end, the line-up there was ... let’s say confusing. I was still screaming about that just like I would on any other race. I was true to my form all the way to the end."[43] Johnson gave Stewart his "Chasing 7" helmet he wore during the race as a parting gift.[44]

Race results

Pos	Grid	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Points
1	14	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	268	40
2	24	42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	268	41
3	1	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	268	39
4	13	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	268	37
5	15	1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	268	36
6	9	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	268	35
7	7	20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	268	34
8	12	47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	268	33
9	4	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	268	32
10	26	59	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet	268	31
11	5	24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	268	30
12	17	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	268	29
13	16	41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	268	28
14	28	27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	268	27
15	22	44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	268	26
16	19	88	Alex Bowman (i)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	268	0
17	21	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	267	24
18	23	13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet	267	23
19	30	10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	266	22
20	20	6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	266	21
21	32	38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	266	20
22	11	14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	266	19
23	33	15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	266	18
24	27	34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	266	17
25	3	31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	264	16
26	8	21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	264	15
27	31	49	Matt DiBenedetto (i)	BK Racing	Toyota	264	14
28	40	46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	264	13
29	36	23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota	264	12
30	18	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	262	11
31	38	83	Jeffrey Earnhardt (R)	BK Racing	Toyota	261	10
32	37	55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Toyota	259	9
33	34	95	Ty Dillon (i)	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet	258	0
34	10	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	257	7
35	2	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	257	6
36	6	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	257	5
37	29	5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	257	4
38	35	7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet	255	3
39	39	32	Dylan Lupton (i)	Go FAS Racing	Ford	250	0
40	25	43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	213	1
Official race results

Race summary

• Lead changes: 6 among different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 7 for 33
• Red flags: 1 for 31 minutes, 9 seconds
• Time of race: 3 hours, 7 minutes, 10 seconds
• Average speed: 128.869 miles per hour (207.395 km/h)

Media

Television

NBC covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast handled pit road on the television side. While the race itself aired on NBC, NBCSN aired NBCSN NASCAR Hot Pass, a simultaneous live feed dedicated to each of the Chase drivers, with commentary by Leigh Diffey and Parker Kligerman. Also, three different angles from in-car cameras and a track map tracked the driver's position and changes throughout the field.

NBC
Booth announcers	Pit reporters
Lap-by-lap: Rick Allen Color-commentator: Jeff Burton Color-commentator: Steve Letarte	Dave Burns Mike Massaro Marty Snider Kelli Stavast

Radio

MRN handled the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.

MRN
Booth announcers	Turn announcers	Pit reporters
Lead announcer: Joe Moore Announcer: Jeff Striegle Announcer: Rusty Wallace	Turns 1 & 2: Dave Moody Turns 3 & 4: Mike Bagley	Alex Hayden Winston Kelley Steve Post

Final season standings

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 1 Jimmie Johnson 5,040 1 2 Joey Logano 5,037 (–3) 1 3 Kyle Busch 5,035 (–5) 1 4 Carl Edwards 5,007 (–33) 5 Matt Kenseth 2,330 (–2,710) 6 Denny Hamlin 2,320 (–2,720) 7 Kurt Busch 2,296 (–2,744) 3 8 Kevin Harvick 2,289 (–2,751) 1 9 Chase Elliott 2,285 (–2,755) 2 10 Kyle Larson 2,273 (–2,767) 3 11 Martin Truex, Jr. 2,271 (–2,769) 3 12 Brad Keselowski 2,267 (–2,773) 13 Jamie McMurray 2,231 (–2,809) 14 Austin Dillon 2,223 (–2,817) 15 Tony Stewart 2,211 (–2,829) 16 Chris Buescher 2,169 (–2,871) Official driver's standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Toyota 1,477 2 Chevrolet 1,452 (–25) 3 Ford 1,388 (–89) Official manufacturers' standings Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.

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