2012 Ford EcoBoost 400

2012 Ford EcoBoost 400
Race details[1][2][3]
Race 36 of 36 in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Date November 18, 2012 (2012-11-18)
Location Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, Florida
Course Permanent racing facility
1.5 mi (2.4 km)
Distance 267 laps, 400.5 mi (644.542 km)
Weather Clear with the air temperature around 77 °F (25 °C); wind out of the NNW at 8 miles per hour (13 km/h).
Pole position
Driver
Joe Gibbs Racing
Time 30.672
Most laps led
Driver Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing
Laps 191
Winner
No. 24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network ESPN
Announcers Allen Bestwick, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree

The 2012 Ford EcoBoost 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on November 18, 2012 at Homestead Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. Contested over 267 laps, it was the thirty-sixth in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the final race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports won the race, his second win of the season and Hendrick's first win at Homestead Miami (and their 10th win of the season), while Clint Bowyer finished second and Ryan Newman finished third.

The race was notable for three lasts: the last race for Dodge in the foreseeable future, the last race with the fifth-generation Sprint Cup car body, and the last for long-time Hendrick Motorsports sponsor DuPont with Jeff Gordon, as DuPont was leaving the #24 team at the end of the season following a spinoff of its automotive coatings division to The Carlyle Group.

  1. ^ "2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Schedule". ESPN. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
  2. ^ Brown, Brian (November 14, 2012). "TheFord 400". Rotoworld.com. NBC Sports. Archived from the original on November 15, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
  3. ^ Ryan, Nate (November 16, 2012). "Brad Keselowski starts third, Jimmie Johnson 10th". USA Today. Retrieved November 17, 2012.