NASCAR testing results from Homestead-Miami Speedway
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Homestead-Miami Speedway is hosting a test with the Next Gen car. The test is ahead of the race on October 23 when the track will host their first race with NASCAR’s new machine.
View Homestead-Miami Speedway testing results below.
Drivers comment on the Next Gen test
“Just kind of learning this car at this race track,” said Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron, the track’s most recent winner back in February 2021. “Try to get a baseline set-up, I would say, and maybe a couple things apply to Texas, possibly. So just try to keep learning this car and just get a little bit better.”
“To me it’s less about tuning and getting prepared for when we come back to Homestead, as it is learning overall and trying some things that maybe we haven’t had the opportunity to try,” said Front Row Motorsports’ Michael McDowell. “I mean, if you think about practice this year, you get 20 minutes and you go right out for qualifying. You cannot make big changes; they won’t allow you to. So here we’re going to try a few things that we probably haven’t gotten to try throughout the season.”
“It’s obviously different not being the last race, but there’s still a large amount of significance on the event, just like really all of the last 10 are,” Chase Elliott said. “If you make it to the final one, that one’s a bit different. But the rest of them, you’re always trying to win, always trying to bank as many points as you can and you’re gonna do your part to get through the round.”
NASCAR comments on the test
“NASCAR doesn’t have a real agenda for the organizational tests,” Scott Miller told SiriusXM.
“This is completely whatever the teams want to do working on setups, working on whatever it is that they’re doing to collect data, to better understand the Next Gen to help with setups down the road.”
“So it’s one of their few opportunities to go to a race track, collect all the data that they want and need and experiment, have time to wildly change setups and try to understand different things. So it’s an important test for the teams, but for us, we have a presence down there obviously, but we have no agenda or for anything on the docket for the teams to do. It’s their test.”
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Homestead-Miami Speedway
Testing Results
September 21, 2022
NASCAR Cup Series
Pos | Driver | Best Speed
1. Joey Logano
167.126
2. Brad Keselowski
167.033
3. Kyle Larson
166.641
4. Ryan Blaney
166.569
5. Denny Hamlin
166.441
6. Ty Gibbs/Bubba Wallace
166.113
7. Ricky Stenhouse Jr
165.787
8. Ross Chastain
165.451
9. Corey LaJoie
165.401
10. Harrison Burton
165.380
11. Alex Bowman
165.173
12. Martin Truex Jr
165.173
13. Justin Haley
165.017
14. Chase Briscoe
164.800
15. Todd Gilliland
163.934
16. Austin Dillon
163.915
17. Kevin Harvick
163.320
18. Noah Gragson
161.007
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Testing Results
September 20, 2022
NASCAR Cup Series
Pos | Driver | Best Speed
1. Austin Cindric
165.548
2. Joey Logano
165.497
3. Denny Hamlin
165.320
4. Brad Keselowski
165.264
5. Christopher Bell
165.249
6. Tyler Reddick
165.122
7. Michael McDowell
164.916
8. Corey LaJoie
164.735
9. John Hunter Nemechek
164.419
10. Kevin Harvick
164.399
11. William Byron
164.149
12. Ricky Stenhouse Jr
164.014
13. Chase Elliott
163.979
14. Justin Haley
163.800
15. Chase Briscoe
163.676
16. Daniel Suarez
163.626
17. Erik Jones
162.921
18. Harrison Burton
162.206
