David Reutimann and the No. 83 Burger King / Dr. Pepper Toyota team finished 26th on Sunday afternoon at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. Reutimann was able to tame the beast known as "The Monster Mile" to bring home another solid finish.
Travis Kvapil and the No. 93 Burger King / Dr. Pepper Toyota Camry team finished 39th at Dover (Del.) International Speedway ("The Monster Mile") on Sunday afternoon. After getting caught speeding on pit road during their first pit stop of the day, the team battled back and had their car handling well when engine failure ended their day just before the halfway point.
Kenny Wallace will be back at Iowa Speedway this summer. Only this time, the 49-year-old veteran driver from St. Louis will be behind the wheel. U.S. Cellular will sponsor Wallace’s car during the NASCAR Nationwide Series’ DuPont Pioneer 250 Saturday and U.S. Cellular 250 Aug. 3 in Newton.
Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart claimed his first victory of the 2013 season at the ‘Monster Mile’ in the FedEx 400 in his No. 14 Code 3 Associates Mobil 1 Chevrolet SS. The win marked his third at Dover International Speedway and snapped a 30-race winless streak.
Following the event at Dover International Speedway, Harvick gained two positions moving to fifth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver championship point standings, trailing leader Jimmie Johnson by 74 markers, while Menard ranks 10th, 102 points back, and Burton sits 21st, 150 points out of the top position.
Roush Fenway’s Trevor Bayne locked up his third top-five finish of the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) season thanks to a bold and strategic pit call that gave him prime track position in Saturday’s 200-mill NNS race at Dover International Speedway.
TONY STEWART, NO. 14 CODE 3 ASSOCIATES/MOBIL 1 CHEVROLET SS - WINNER - IT’S DOVER YOU ARE IN VICTORY LANE CONGRATULATIONS: “If somebody would have told me it was going to be that way yesterday I would have told them they were crazy. This thing was not a car that could win the race. Just great pit strategy at the end. We had a car that was solid we just never got track position to get in clean air."
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion (Finished 5th) – “We drove hard all day, we just didn’t have the speed needed to go win the race but we had the speed we needed to have a solid day. The guys did a great job executing today."
