NASCAR Cup PR

NASCAR and Texas Motor Speedway today announced the format and eligibility for the NASCAR All-Star Race on Sunday, May 22, that features four stages and 125 laps of on-track competition for a $1 million payday, stage winner incentives, amplified roles for the pit crews, and a distinctive head-to-head elimination qualifying format.

Coming off a NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) and NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) sweep for Chevrolet at Talladega Superspeedway, the bowtie brand looks to carry its momentum onto the 1-mile concrete oval of Dover Motor Speedway.

Richard Childress Racing has four NASCAR Cup Series victories at Dover Motor Speedway. Dale Earnhardt won three times, a sweep of both races in 1989 and the 1993 spring event.

Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, on heading to Dover with the Next Gen car: “All these places, as we go to them for the first time, I’m kind of like everybody else, just waiting to see how it goes."

AJ Allmendinger has an average finish of 22.9 at Dover - He has led 152 laps at Dover, more than any other track he’s competed at in the NCS

Michael McDowell and his No. 34 Navage Nasal Care Ford Mustang team head to Dover (DE.) for the Cup Series' one and only visit to the high banked one-mile oval.

RFK heads north to Dover Motor Speedway for 400 miles of racing Sunday afternoon, a track where Jack Roush has nine wins, third-most of any track on the circuit.

Michael McDowell, driver of the No. 34 Love’s Travel Stops Ford Mustang, is coming off back-to-back top-10 finishes in the NASCAR Cup Series after posting a ninth-place run on the Bristol dirt and an eighth-place effort on Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway.

NASCAR and ARCA make their lone stop to the ‘Monster Mile’ – Dover Motor Speedway – this year, while NHRA competes in its final four-wide event of the season at zMax Dragway.

Dover Motor Speedway bills itself as the Monster Mile, but Brian Wilson, crew chief of the No. 21 DEX Imaging Mustang, said he’s not intimidated over the prospects of racing on the fast, one-mile concrete oval.