NASCAR Awards Banquet honors champions in Miami
NASCAR honored all three national touring series champions Tuesday night in Miami, capping off the 2026 season with the NASCAR Awards Banquet.
The ceremony was held at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami, Florida.
Kaden Honeycutt celebrated his first NASCAR national touring championship with a 5-win season piloting the No. 11 Toyota in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for TRICON Garage.
Justin Allgaier earned his second NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts title in three years in his six-win season.
Kyle Larson captured his third Cup Series title and became the first back-to-back champion of the series since Jimmie Johnson during his 2006-2010 title run.
Additionally, Kyle Busch was posthumously awarded the Most Popular Driver Award.
The Awards Show will air on the NASCAR Channel, Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m., per NASCAR.
History of Awards Banquet
NASCAR held a formal ceremony in New York City from 1981 to 2008.
The ceremony moved to Las Vegas in 2009, concluding its run in Sin City in 2018.
The banquet then moved to Nashville from 2019 through 2023 (but cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
In 2024, the awards ceremony was held in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In 2025, the awards banquet was held two days after the Phoenix NASCAR Cup Series championship race in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The 2027 season will kick off for all three series at Daytona International Speedway in February.
SOURCES
NASCAR, Racing-Reference.info
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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