NASCAR is back for its annual race at the Homestead Miami Speedway. The cup series will be held Oct. 26 and 27. To kick things off, the speedway hosted the NASCAR Racing Experience.
Attendees were able to drive and ride in NASCAR stock cars for timed racing sessions after a training and instruction meeting.
The speedway opened in 1995 to help rejuvenate Homestead, which was damaged several years before by Hurricane Andrew. It is active for more than 280 days per year and features a 1.5 mile oval, was well as a 2.21 mile road course.
“Homestead is not that far from the rest of Miami,” said track President Guillermo Santa Cruz. “It’s a wonderful spot for motorsports. If you have never been to a NASCAR race give us a chance. It’s worth a drive.”
Find tickets for the racing experience on their website.
Daniela Zulueta is pursuing her master’s degree in global strategic communications and graduated from FIU with a bachelor’s degree in digital broadcasting in 2023. She also holds an associate’s degree in journalism from Miami Dade College. Zulueta loves the city of Miami and aims to share the stories of the citizens who live here and all over the world. Zulueta runs a social media platform called @Lifestyle_Miami where she works with local businesses and does community-based work. She had a paid internship with Televisa Univisión as a Step Producer and worked as a stage manager at NBC6 South Florida & Telemundo51. Now, she is part of cohort 8 and has a fellowship at the FIU Ratcliffe where she can work on branding herself and post-production of a podcast called Tech Conversations.
Dylan Pezet is a student at Florida International University studying Digital Communications and Broadcast Media. He joined Caplin News in the Spring of 2024 in hopes of improving his TV-production craft so that after graduation he may be able to get a job with the NHRA as a track reporter/announcer.
