The team's historic top-four finishing positions sweep in the 2021 race marked the first time in organizational history and the fourth time in NASCAR history (and first since 2005) that a Cup Series team swept the front four spots in the field. Alex Bowman, Ken Schrader and Ricky Rudd each sit in a tie with Bodine having each won a single race for the organization at the 1-mile circuit. Team vice chairman and NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon has five checkered flags at Dover while Chase Elliott has two. Since then, Rick Hendrick’s team has won 21 races, led by Jimmie Johnson with 11. Throughout the years, Hendrick Motorsports has seen success at Dover dating all the way back to 1986 when Geoff Bodine earned the company’s fifth ever win. Between the high banking and the unique racing surface, it has been a longtime favorite of both drivers and fans alike. The track is also one of three concrete surfaces (Bristol Motor Speedway and Nashville Superspeedway being the others) that will host a Cup Series race this year. RELATED: Check out this weekend's paint schemes for Dover It’s crazy how much throttle we use at a track that small."
By the time you hit the three-eighths mark, you better be back in the throttle and full throttle by dead center of the corner or you are not going to be running that good. Usually, you come off the straightaway and jump down into the corner, which I call the quarter to three-eighths mark.
"The sooner you can finish throttling, the better you are going to be. It is a one-mile racetrack and as soon as the car lands, you are cracking back into the throttle," Fugle explained. "It would be better if we were off the throttle a little bit more. 24 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, explained this phenomenon well on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Earlier this week, Rudy Fugle, crew chief of the No. While the 24 degrees of banking in each turn is on par with many 1.5-mile circuits, the shorter distance of only one mile and nine degrees of banking on each straightaway contributes to more throttle usage than normal, leading to higher speeds than other facilities the series visits. In many ways, there is no facility quite like the “Monster Mile” on the tour’s calendar. – For the first and only time in 2023, the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Dover, Delaware, to compete at the famous 1-mile, concrete track of Dover Motor Speedway.
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