Homestead Miami Speedway and Homestead Air Reserve base team up during Ford Championship Weekend

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Two of Homestead’s most recognizable residents will team up to provide fans attending the Ford EcoBoost 400 on Sunday, November 16 an unforgettable experience.  Homestead Air Reserve Base will be providing a flyover prior to the start of Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series Championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, making it one of only a handful of tracks that will have had a military flyover this year.  On Sunday following the National Anthem, a pair of F-16 fighter jets from the 93rd Fighter Squadron will be seen – and heard – over the host venue for the championship races in all three of NASCAR’s series.  

In addition to the flyover, the Base will be involved in many other ways throughout Ford Championship Weekend.  The 482nd Homestead Air Reserve Base Security Forces Color Guard will be Presenting the Colors on Friday, November 14 prior to the Ford EcoBoost 200, while the 482nd Honor Guard out of Homestead Air Reserve Base will be doing the same for the Ford EcoBoost 300 on Saturday, November 15 and the Ford EcoBoost 400 on Sunday, November 16.  U.S. Army Brigadier General Kurt L. Sonntag, Commander of SOCSOUTH, will deliver the Pledge of Allegiance before Sunday’s race, while Colonel Christian G. Funk, Commander of the 482nd Fighter Wing at Homestead Air Reserve Base, will be giving the Oath of Enlistment to the new military recruits who will be present on stage prior to Sunday’s race.

This is not the first time this year that the Speedway and the Base have joined forces.  Back on September 10, Aric Almirola, driver of the #43 car for Richard Petty Motorsports, paid a visit to the Base as part of the Chase Across North America Tour media event.  In fact, during that visit he worked with the crew chief to prep and launch an F-16 fighter jet.

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