After four Busch Series races and three Truck Series races , NASCAR added a Cup Series race at Homestead for the 1999 season . The track was given the penultimate race of the season , which preceded the then-traditional series finale race , Atlanta Motor Speedway 's NAPA 500 . The Pennzoil 400 , as the race was originally known , was run for three years as the scheduled second-to-last Winston Cup event ( the 2001 race , where NASCAR was forced to run the New Hampshire 300 on Thanksgiving weekend due to the September 11 attacks , was the only one that was n't actually run as the second-to-last race of the year )
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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