NASCAR Cup PR

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) and Roush Fenway head north to Delaware this weekend for the return trip to ‘The Monster Mile,’ a track Jack Roush has had major success at over the years. Combined across the three national series, a Jack Roush Ford has won 17 times with 140 overall top-10 finishes.

Three NASCAR series take on the ‘Monster Mile’ in Dover, Delaware, the ARCA Menards Series heads back to Indiana while POWRi begins its final month of the season in Illinois.  

The 2019 season is a year of celebrating special anniversaries, and with that in mind Richard Childress Racing (RCR) will help celebrate long-time partner Lucas Oil's 30th anniversary by running a commemorative scheme on Daniel Hemric's No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for this weekend's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event at Dover International Speedway.

After a successful partnership at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway in July, DriveSmart Warranty announced today that they returning to Rick Ware Racing and will sponsor the team’s efforts in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.

Dover International Speedway Preview: The Series returns to Dover International Speedway for Sunday’s 400-mile race around the “Monster Mile.” The race marks a career milestone for Hamlin: his 500th Cup series start. A win would be Denny’s first career victory at Dover and would be the team’s fifth win of the 2019 season.

DIBENEDETTO BY THE NUMBERS: In nine Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career starts at Dover, Matt DiBenedetto has an average start of 30.4 and an average finish of 29.9 and has completed 3,272 of 3,615 (90.5 percent) career laps at “The Monster Mile.”  DiBenedetto’s best finishing position at Dover is 20th which he earned in May’s event earlier this season.

Stenhouse has 14 career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at Dover with an average starting position of 17.2 and average finishing position of 20.5.

Newman will make his 36th Cup start at Dover on Sunday. In 35 prior events, Newman has an average finish of 14.4 with 14 top-10 and seven top-five finishes.

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series begins its second round of Playoff action while the NASCAR XFINITY Series conducts a first-round elimination race this weekend at Dover International Speedway.  Ford has a series-high five drivers in the Round of 12 on the Cup side while all three of its NXS drivers are poised to advance to the Round of 8.

The Delaware Lottery, the state's official sports betting agency, will partner with Matt Tifft and Front Row Motorsports (FRM) for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway on Oct. 6.