Drivers and teams are used to the traditional asphalt track.
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Schedule: Thursday, practice (11 a.m.), practice (3 p.m.); Friday, practice (11 a.m.), qualifying, (3 p.m.); Saturday, race, 3:30 p.m. (ABC).
The 2016 AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway had caution after caution on Sunday.
Since he began competing in NASCAR’s national series in 2003, Carl Edwards has excelled on concrete racing surfaces. Christopher Bell ran third, followed by Johnny Sauter and Cole Custer, who overcame an early penalty for jumping the first restart of the race on lap 49 of 200 to finish fifth.
“There is just something about Dover that fits my driving style”, the six-time Cup champion said. He took home the Dash 4 Cash bonus as the top eligible finisher.
NASCAR goes to Dover International Speedway this Sunday for the AAA Drive for Autism 400 and Kyle Busch loses his crew chief this weekend.
– Matt Kenseth leads all active drivers with 22 top-10 finishes at Dover. A great start to this season with two victories so far has Carl looking like he might be the guy on top this weekend.
Kevin Harvick enters the weekend as the points leader.
Lead Changes: 3 among 4 drivers. “It’s not like we have had races where we have been way off. And if we have started way off in a race, we have been able to recover and get a top 10 out of it”.
Getty Images Earnhardt Jr.is another driver who always shines in Dover.
Average Speed of Race Winner: 111.369 miles per hour.
“Honestly, I was trying to drive the wheels off of it to try to complete the pass. I felt like we were a little bit faster than the 88 (of Crafton)”, Suarez commented after the race.
“Certainly we expect to make the Chase, expect to win races”, Truex said. He’s now 37th in the standings – 59 points behind 30th-place Regan Smith.
All Truex Jr. can do is try to soldier on knowing he has a strong team behind him.
Johnson, a 10-time victor at the track, seemingly had worked his way into position to win the race as the closing laps loomed.
Coming off his third win in 11 races, Busch, the defending NASCAR series champ, is down to two venues – Charlotte and Pocono – that he has yet to take a checkered flag at, and has an opportunity to do that still this season. One more warning means losing pit selection for the next race, but the penalties reset. “It’s a special track to me for a lot of reasons”. In 20 starts at the Monster Mile, Truex has one win, one top five and nine top 10s.
With truck owner Kyle Busch rooting him on from pit road, Suarez was second.
Kyle is the first to reach three wins this season and looks to add number four to pull further ahead. Overall, he has one Dover victory and five top five finishes and he has finished in the top ten fourteen times.
Matt Crafton got his first victory at the Monster Mile on Friday. It may be only a mile long, but the entire track is tight all around.
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Stewart, who did not talk to the media, suffered his first serious hit since his return from a back injury for what will be his final season in Sprint Cup.
