When Ron Hornaday Jr. won September’s New Hampshire 200, it left Homestead-Miami Speedway as the last track standing, so to speak.
Both speedways joined the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in 1996 and each boasted a log of 11 consecutive different winners – a streak Hornaday ended at NHIS.
Now, the South Florida facility will take its turn at collecting an even dozen winners.
Who among those entered hasn’t won at Homestead?
For starters, standings leader Mike Skinner, whose best finish of fourth came in Homestead’s 1996 inaugural race.
Interestingly, no driver has won at Homestead in his championship season although the winners’ roster includes Hornaday (2002), Ted Musgrave (2001), Bobby Hamilton (2003) and Todd Bodine (2005).
Rick Crawford (1998) is the only other Homestead winner expected to compete in the Ford 200.
That leaves six who have won in 2007 in line to visit Homestead’s Victory Lane.
They are Travis Kvapil, Johnny Benson, Jack Sprague, Erik Darnell, Dennis Setzer and Kyle Busch. Busch would seem to be the hottest of the sextet coming off his victory in Phoenix – the 22-year-old Las Vegas driver’s second in his past three starts.
Two NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series regulars have won at Homestead: Kasey Kahne in 2004 and Mark Martin a year ago.
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