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Interview with Nascar drivers Dover Motor Speedway (Part 3)

Dover Motor Speedway

After Monday’s Cup race at Dover Motor Speedway, the racers had the following to say: Aric Almirola — Finished 19th: “Man, we had a car capable of running top 10 all day. We didn’t have it in practice or qualifying on Saturday, and Drew (Blickensderfer, crew chief) and the guys made the right changes for […]

Interview with Nascar drivers Dover Motor Speedway (Part 2)

Dover Motor Speedway 1

After Monday’s Cup race at Dover Motor Speedway, the racers had the following to say: Alex Bowman — Finished 5th: “Just a bummer day for us because obviously we had a shot at the win there in our No. 48 Ally Chevrolet; and then that caution in the middle of the pit cycle had us […]

Interview with Nascar drivers Dover Motor Speedway (Part 1)

Dover Motor Speedway

After Monday’s Cup race at Dover Motor Speedway, the racers had the following to say: Chase Elliott — Winner: “Had some good circumstances finally. Really appreciate Alan (Gustafson, crew chief) and our entire team No. 9 Chevrolet team for just sticking with it. We’ve had some tough races over the last, I don’t know, four, […]

Dover NASCAR Cup results

Chase Elliott

Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott took the checkered flag at Dover Motor Speedway on Monday. Elliott’s 14th professional triumph was his first of the 2022 season. This year, all four HMS racers have managed to win one race. On his way to the checkered flag, Elliott led 73 laps. Only Ross Chastain (86) and Kyle Busch […]

Elliott win the rain-delayed Cup race at Dover, beating off Stenhouse 

Elliott

Chase Elliott has led the NASCAR Cup Series rankings for the past six weeks and now has a victory to show for it. Elliott pulled ahead on a restart with 53 of 400 laps left and beat off Ricky Stenhouse Jr. to clinch the victory of postoned race because of heavy rain at Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway […]

Stenhouse finishes second in Dover: “We needed it, bad”

Stenhouse Dover

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has competed in multiple grands prix, but he had very little show for it until Monday. Stenhouse has crashed out of 3 races in the NASCAR Cup Series season’s opening 10 rounds, with his highest result of 10th at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. In reality, Stenhouse had never finished higher than […]

Bell finishes fourth on a challenging day for JGR at Dover

Christopher Bell

Only Christopher Bell managed a top-five position for Joe Gibbs Racing, who sent four fast Toyotas to Dover. Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., and Bell all seemed to have the pace expected to claim the NASCAR Cup Series event at Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway on Sunday and then again on Monday. However, towards […]

Numerous suspensions was issued by NASCAR in both the Cup and Xfinity series

NASCAR Cup and Xfinity series

Ten staff members from two main series and three separate teams were suspended by NASCAR on Tuesday. Loose tires were a trouble once again at Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway last weekend, in both the Cup and Xfinity series races. Both the No. 11 Toyota of Denny Hamlin and the No. 16 Chevrolet of A.J. Allmendinger lost […]

Talladega’s Xfinity pole is occupied by Jeffrey Earnhardt

Talladegas Xfinity Jeffrey Earnhardt

Richard Childress Racing’s first NASCAR race with Jeffrey Earnhardt gets off to a solid start. During the last round of Xfinity Series testing at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway on Friday, Earnhardt, the grandson of NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Sr. and nephew of fellow Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr., set the quickest average track […]

JGR sweeps the front row in Talladega, with Bell taking the pole

JGR Bell

In practice for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series event at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, Toyota and Joe Gibbs Racing dominated the top row. Martin Truex Jr. reached the peak of the pace chart after sweeping the first round of Saturday’s practice session, with one of ten cars left in Round 2. Christopher Bell, a JGR colleague, beat […]