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Well, this is it for the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup season - and for our live commentary.
30-year-old Kyle Busch takes his maiden title and becomes the third first-time champion of the past four seasons.
He also takes a Homestead win, having completely shrugged off the fact this was a track where he had his worst career average in the Cup.
Can't argue against that kind of outcome.
30-year-old Kyle Busch takes his maiden title and becomes the third first-time champion of the past four seasons.
He also takes a Homestead win, having completely shrugged off the fact this was a track where he had his worst career average in the Cup.
Can't argue against that kind of outcome.
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Jeff Gordon, with his children by his side: "Who would've ever thought, coming from Indiana as a sprint cup driver, I could race for people like Bill Davis and then get the opportunity to work for the greatest car owner the Sprint Car series has ever seen - Rick Hendrick."
"Gosh, I'm a little disappointed, to be honest. Coming into this race, I thought we had something for them.
"I'm proud, I wanted that win but we're still going to celebrate."
"Gosh, I'm a little disappointed, to be honest. Coming into this race, I thought we had something for them.
"I'm proud, I wanted that win but we're still going to celebrate."
Gordon gets out of his #24 machine for the last time and shares a hug with Rick Hendrick.
Fifth win for Kyle Busch in 2015. He missed 11 races after breaking his foot at Daytona, but he's been second to none since his return.
Busch leads Harvick over the line by 1.553s, Keselowski holds off Logano for third. Gordon bows out with a sixth place, Truex 12th.
And Toyota has its first Sprint Cup champion.
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Kyle Busch is the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion.
Teammates Logano and Keselowski battling over third.
3 to go and the lead is 1.4s.
Busch pulling away from Harvick with 5 laps to go.
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Kyle into lead, Keselowski second, Harvick third.... Then KH passes BK for second. And Jeff Gordon is 6th.
So Busch will restart on outside of front row with Harvick right behind him. Hold on, folks.
As such, Gordon will restart P10, Truex P13.
Surprising to see neither Gordon, nor Truex gamble on two tyres for track position. Truthfully though, it would've been futile anyway - Homestead has been chewing tyres today.
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Lots of people not terribly impressed with that caution. TV cameras do show some debris - not large, but debris nonetheless.
Pit Stop
Crucial stop. All 4 title contenders stop. And Kyle gets ahead of Larson back into second. Harvick remains fourth.
The debris appears to be a small plastic bottle.
Yellow Flag
Debris.
It's Penske vs Ganassi fighting for the win - a regular match-up in IndyCar, somewhat rarer in NASCAR.
Larson's pace is ridiculous, a fair few tenths up on everyone else. Career-first win on the cards?
And Kyle passes Kyle - Busch gives a lot of room to the Ganassi car. Smart move by Busch who is just 13 laps away from his first Sprint Cup Series title.
Nine seconds between Busch and Harvick.
Larson shown scraping the wall but continues unabated.
20 to go.
Larson reeling in Kyle Busch, they're now less than a second and a half apart. Busch surely won't put up much of a fight.
15 cars on lead lap, Martin Truex running P14.
Busch is seven seconds up on Harvick, 18 seconds up on Gordon, 26 seconds up on Truex.
30 laps to go in 2015. 30 laps for Gordon. 30 laps for Michael Waltrip Racing.
Gap between Kyle Busch and Harvick continues to grow...
Gordon is 3s off ninth place. Time for 24Ever advocates to start praying, crossing fingers, and sticking pins into wax models of Busch and Harvick.
Harvick is a whopping five seconds behind Kyle Busch right now. Kyle is 2.6s behind Keselowski but that's immaterial to the Toyota driver.
Keselowski still leads.
The title contenders in the same order – Busch and Harvick second and fourth, and Gordon and Truex 10th and 12th.
Pit Stop
Gordon stops - a long one to adjust a right-rear rubber.
And Kyle Busch pits too.
And Kyle Busch pits too.
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And Harvick swings the #4 into pit lane, and reports being too tail-happy.
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Whoah. Truex pits.
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Denny Hamlin has moved past Kurt Busch to take sixth.
Going by the current times, Keselowski and Busch are quite a bit better than everyone else right now. Larson does not appear to be closing in.
Jeff Gordon has nothing for Kenseth at the moment - he's 1.7s out of eighth.
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