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Thanks for your company on AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live tonight and on all these non-F1 weekends since we began with the Monte Carlo Rally back in January.

AUTOSPORT Live returns for the F1 decider in Abu Dhabi from Friday next week, and we'll also be bringing you live coverage of the AUTOSPORT Awards on the evening of Sunday December 7.

Goodbye for now.
NASCAR - Homestead - results:

1 Harvick
2 Newman
3 Keselowski
4 Menard
5 McMurray
6 Kenseth
7 Hamlin
8 Bowyer
9 Johnson
10 Gordon

Logano is only 16th
NASCAR - Homestead: Kevin Harvick wins the race and the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup title!
NASCAR - Homestead: Harvick has Newman on his tail still but this race looks won...
NASCAR - Homestead: Harvick and Newman make a clear break with two laps to go.
NASCAR - Homestead: Keselowski is looking racey in fourth as they line up for the restart.
NASCAR - Homestead: Harvick leads Newman and Hamlin under yellow, with Logano out of it in 22nd and five laps to go.
NASCAR - Homestead: That yellow is due to debris from the car Blake Koch was still dragging around.
NASCAR - Homestead: Newman moves inside Hamlin and takes second pace, and now we have a caution.
NASCAR - Homestead: Harvick takes the lead with seven laps to go.
NASCAR - Homestead: Harvick is now changing Hamlin for the race lead and the championship.
NASCAR - Homestead: Hamlin bursts clear at the restart and Newman loses ground. Harvick thrust his way through to second.
NASCAR - Homestead: We're going to have only nine laps left when it resumes...
NASCAR - Homestead: So the restart will see Hamlin leading on old tyres, Newman alongside him with two new ones, and Harvick sixth with four fresh Goodyears.
NASCAR - Homestead: Harvick made it up to seventh in those few green flag laps.

Gordon is coming into the pits from second, most others stay out, though Logano is in from near the back.
NASCAR - Homestead: But we're quickly back to yellow after a collision between backmarkers JJ Yeley and Joey Gase.
NASCAR - Homestead: Hamlin takes the lead, with Gordon and Newman right behind him.
NASCAR - Homestead: The first attempt at a restart with 16 laps to go is waved off as the field isn't in good formation.

Order: 1 Gordon; 2 Hamlin; 3 Vickers; 4 Newman; 5 Menard; 6 Dillon; 7 McMurray; 8 Larson; 9 Keselowski; 10 Johnson; 11 Kenseth; 12 Harvick
NASCAR - Homestead: Newman only took on two new tyres and is fourth, while Harvick took four and is back in 12th behind a group that followed Newman's tactic.
NASCAR - Homestead: That will tumble Logano right back to 29th place with less than 20 laps remaining.
NASCAR - Homestead: Disaster for Logano! His car comes off its jacks during the stop and is having to be manually lifted. That's going to drop him right to the tail of the field.
NASCAR - Homestead: Gordon and Hamlin stay out in first and second, as the rest of the leaders and title contenders dive for the pits.
NASCAR - Homestead: Just 20 laps to go now, and we have yet another caution, this time debris again.
NASCAR - Homestead: Harvick has cleared off chasing Gordon and Keselowski, while Newman is attacking Hamlin and has Logano and Johnson right with him.
NASCAR - Homestead: Newman emerges fifth, Logano sixth, but Johnson then passes Logano.
NASCAR - Homestead: Gordon clearly away in the lead as Hamlin is slower to pick up and falls to fourth behind Keselowski and Harvick.
NASCAR - Homestead: Here we go then, everyone can make it to the end on fuel, but expect more tyre stops if (when) we get more yellows. The 2014 title is still wide open.
NASCAR - Homestead: Gordon holds the lead in the stops ahead of Hamlin and Harvick. Newman comes out sixth, Logano eighth.
NASCAR - Homestead:

Race order: 1 Gordon; 2 Hamlin; 3 Harvick; 4 Keselowski; 5 Earnhardt; 6 Johnson; 7 Newman; 8 Logano; 9 Bowyer; 10 Kenseth.
NASCAR - Homestead: That was a nasty accident for Allmendinger, whose car snapped into a high-speed spin and backed into the wall, seemingly with a tyre down again.
NASCAR - Homestead: A second crash of the night for Allmendinger causes another yellow with 31 laps left.
NASCAR - Homestead: Gordon has charged away into a 1.4s lead, with Hamlin just about secure in second ahead of Harvick and Keselowski now.

Johnson and Earnhardt battle behind them, then its Newman and Logano in seventh and eighth.
NASCAR - Homestead: Back to green with 42 laps to go. Gordon makes a great restart and pulls clear, with Hamlin second while Keselowski takes on Harvick for third.

Newman drops back to seventh but quickly regains a place, while Logano is now ninth.
NASCAR - Homestead: It's very close in the pit exit, with Gordon getting out just ahead of Hamlin and Harvick.

A much better stop for Newman that time, and he is back into fifth place behind Keselowski.

But it's bad for Logano, he tumbles to 12th.
NASCAR - Homestead: All the leaders head into the pits, they can now take enough fuel on to get to the end.
NASCAR - Homestead: And now back to yellow, with a lump of debris on the track.
NASCAR - Homestead: Gordon is right on Hamlin for the lead, with Harvick ready to pounce as well.

Logano is back up to fifth place, although Earnhardt isn't letting him have it easily.

Newman is making progress too and is ninth.
NASCAR - Homestead: Hamlin and Gordon battle hard on the restart and the Joe Gibbs Toyota makes it through.

Harvick briefly dropped to fourth behind Keselowski but is now attacking Gordon.

Logano is sixth, while Newman has fallen to 11th with 53 laps left.
NASCAR - Homestead: The leaders are coming back into the pits.

Gordon just squeeze back out in the lead again ahead of Hamlin and Harvick, with Keselowski fourth.

Newman lost ground there and is back to 10th.

By: AUTOSPORT staff, Peter Mills, Gary Watkins, Marcus Simmons, Jonathan Noble

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