Homestead-Miami Speedway is back at the end of the NASCAR Cup Series schedule.

It’d be much better if the 1.5-mile track served as the host of the season finale again like it did for so many years in the 2000s, but we’ll take it being the 34th of 36 races. Homestead has long been one of the best intermediate tracks in NASCAR and a worthy place to determine a title. The season finale was moved to Phoenix ahead of the 2020 season by NASCAR for reasons that had little do with racing and a lot to do with money spent at Phoenix, and Homestead found itself bouncing around the schedule.

It hosted a race in the summer of 2020 and then in the spring of 2021. It’s finally hosting a playoff race again and there aren’t any clear favorites to win on Sunday.