Dover International Speedway

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	1 mi./1.609 km. Paved Oval located in Dover, DE
	Formerly Known As: No Previous Names Of Facility Known
	Former Configurations: Speedway (presumed) in Initial Configuration
	Opened: N/A	Closed: STILL IN OPERATION
	Banking: Unknown°	Promoters:
	Track Website: NO WEBSITE AVAILABLE

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Dover International Speedway (nickname: The Monster Mile) is a NASCAR race track located near Dover, Delaware. It is unusual in several respects. It is a concrete track; most NASCAR tracks are asphalt. It is co-located with a horse racing track, Dover Downs, and in fact is sometimes also referred to by this name. It is also exactly one mile long; technically this means that it is neither a superspeedway nor a short track. The speedway is also notoriously hard on cars, and its standard nickname is The Monster Mile. The horse track is part of an extensive entertainment complex including other forms of gambling; at one time both it and the speedway were owned by the publicly-traded Dover Downs Entertainment, but they have since been split into two separate enterprises, partly at the encouragement of NASCAR. At one time the Winston Cup races held here were 500 miles long until a NASCAR rules change limited 500 mile races to being held only at tracks over a mile in length; the current Sprint Cup races here are 400 miles long. Dover also hosted Indy Racing League races in 1998 and 1999 won by Scott Sharp and Greg Ray. The same company owning Dover Downs also owns several other racetracks, including Nashville Superspeedway; it has been suggested that one of the two current Cup races held there could be shifted to Nashville but this seems unlikely as both current Cup races at Dover are easily sold out. The Dover ownership is one of only three publicly-held ownership groups of NASCAR tracks, the other two being International Speedway Corporation, controlled by NASCAR's founding France family and owners of the Talladega and Daytona tracks, among others, and Speedway Motorsports, Inc., led by Bruton Smith and H. A. "Humpy" Wheeler, which owns Lowe's Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway, among others. Aside from these three ownership groups, NASCAR tracks are privately held by one or a few individuals. See also: List of NASCAR race tracks Records NASCAR Sprint Cup Qualifying: Jeremy Mayfield, 22.288 sec. (161.522 mph), 2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race: Mark Martin, 132.719 mph, September 21, 1997 NASCAR Nationwide Series Qualifying: David Green, 22.797 sec. (157.915 mph), 2004 NASCAR Nationwide Series Race: Brian Vickers, 133.154 mph, September 20, 2003 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Qualifying: David Starr, 22.846 sec. (157.577 mph), 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race: Ted Musgrave, 104.545 mph, May 31, 2002 Current races NASCAR Sprint Cup Autism Speaks 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup AAA 400 NASCAR Nationwide Series Heluva Good! 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series Dover 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Dover 200 External links Dover International Speedway Official Site Dover International Speedway Page on NASCAR.com High Resolution image from Google Maps

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Dover International Speedway (nickname: The Monster Mile) is a NASCAR race track located near Dover, Delaware. It is unusual in several respects. It is a concrete track; most NASCAR tracks are asphalt. It is co-located with a horse racing track, Dover Downs, and in fact is sometimes also referred to by this name. It is also exactly one mile long; technically this means that it is neither a superspeedway nor a short track. The speedway is also notoriously hard on cars, and its standard nickname is The Monster Mile. The horse track is part of an extensive entertainment complex including other forms of gambling; at one time both it and the speedway were owned by the publicly-traded Dover Downs Entertainment, but they have since been split into two separate enterprises, partly at the encouragement of NASCAR. At one time the Winston Cup races held here were 500 miles long until a NASCAR rules change limited 500 mile races to being held only at tracks over a mile in length; the current Sprint Cup races here are 400 miles long. Dover also hosted Indy Racing League races in 1998 and 1999 won by Scott Sharp and Greg Ray.

The same company owning Dover Downs also owns several other racetracks, including Nashville Superspeedway; it has been suggested that one of the two current Cup races held there could be shifted to Nashville but this seems unlikely as both current Cup races at Dover are easily sold out. The Dover ownership is one of only three publicly-held ownership groups of NASCAR tracks, the other two being International Speedway Corporation, controlled by NASCAR's founding France family and owners of the Talladega and Daytona tracks, among others, and Speedway Motorsports, Inc., led by Bruton Smith and H. A. "Humpy" Wheeler, which owns Lowe's Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway, among others. Aside from these three ownership groups, NASCAR tracks are privately held by one or a few individuals.

See also: List of NASCAR race tracks

Records

NASCAR Sprint Cup Qualifying: Jeremy Mayfield, 22.288 sec. (161.522 mph), 2004
NASCAR Sprint Cup Race: Mark Martin, 132.719 mph, September 21, 1997
NASCAR Nationwide Series Qualifying: David Green, 22.797 sec. (157.915 mph), 2004
NASCAR Nationwide Series Race: Brian Vickers, 133.154 mph, September 20, 2003
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Qualifying: David Starr, 22.846 sec. (157.577 mph), 2005
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race: Ted Musgrave, 104.545 mph, May 31, 2002

Current races

External links

Dover International Speedway Official Site
Dover International Speedway Page on NASCAR.com
High Resolution image from Google Maps

RACE LISTING

Date	Sanction	Winner	Laps
14 May 1977	NASCAR Baby Grand	Dean Combs	???
20 May 1978	NASCAR Baby Grand	Melvin Revis	???
17 May 1980	NASCAR International Sedan Series	Mike Watts	100
13 September 1980	NASCAR International Sedan Series	Nelson Gusler	???
22 September 2000	NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series	Kurt Busch	203
2 June 2001	NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series	Scott Riggs	200
2 June 2001	NASCAR Busch Series	Jimmy Spencer	200
22 September 2001	NASCAR Busch Series	Jeff Green	200
31 May 2002	NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series	Ted Musgrave	200
20 September 2002	NASCAR Busch North Series	Matt Kobyluck	150
3 June 2006	NASCAR Busch Series	Jeff Burton	200
22 September 2006	NASCAR Busch East Series	Tim Andrews	157
23 September 2006	NASCAR Busch Series	Clint Bowyer	202
21 September 2007	NASCAR Busch East Series	Sean Caisse	150
24 September 2010	NASCAR K & N Pro Series East	Brett Moffitt	155
13 May 2011	Camping World Truck Series	Kyle Busch	200
14 May 2011	NASCAR Nationwide Series	Carl Edwards	209
15 May 2011	NASCAR Sprint Cup Series	Matt Kenseth	400
30 September 2011	NASCAR K & N Pro Series East	Darrell Wallace, Jr.	152
1 October 2011	NASCAR Nationwide Series	Carl Edwards	200
2 October 2011	NASCAR Sprint Cup Series	Kurt Busch	400

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