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HOMESTEAD, Fla. – NASCAR officials have given Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series teams the option of purchasing one additional set of tires for Sunday’s season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
That would provide teams with 11 sets of tires: 10 new and the set used during qualifying on Friday. Teams must start the 267-lap race (3 p.m., NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) on the set used during Friday’s qualifying.
“I was fine with the tire allotments that we had previously. I think racing on old tires you can really see whose got what,” said Adam Stevens, crew chief for Kyle Busch’s No. 18 team. “If it’s going to be a race with everybody bolting on tires every 25 laps, it takes some of the strategy out of it so I was fine with how it was.”
NASCAR officials said the move was made as a result of conversations with various teams following Friday’s on-track activity.
Martin Truex Jr. (Furniture Row Racing Toyota), Kevin Harvick (Stewart-Haas Racing Ford), Kyle Busch (Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota) and Brad Keselowski (Team Penske Ford) will be competing for the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship.
Denny Hamlin (JGR) will start on the pole.