History of the Ford 400

The Ford 400 in the city of Homestead, Florida, is a NASCAR Sprint Cup sports car chase which is apprehended by Homestead-Miami Speedway. In 1999, the race was first run which is comparatively fresh on the NASCAR route. The Ford 400, since 2002, has been an element of the Ford Championship Weekend which is the preceding week of the NASCAR period.

The Ford 400 has been the last contest which started in 2004 in the Sprint for the Cup. In 2004, this chase came out to be a chief achievement. The corporate sponsor for the race was the Ford itself. An exhilarating chase unfolded as the points escort altered numerous times during the course of the race. Kurt Busch apprehended Jimmie Johnson with the margin of eight points in the end which is the contiguous concluding edge in NASCAR past. The concluding contest for 2007 of the NASCAR Textile Cup season and the trail for the NEXTEL Cup were run in Homestead at the Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18, 2007. It was the last race (Ford 400) to make use of the pattern for premier series of NASCAR's. The contest also stroked the last look of the Hedrick Motorsports car marked with #25.

From 1999-2000, NBC have televised the contest. For the initial two years, Ford 400 was the only contest which was accepted by the network and they initially broadcasted it. Starting in 2007, ABC started televising the contest and will continue with the same until at least 2014.