The Oneida Daily Dispatch (Oneida, NY)
Dover Motor Speedway
3 p.m. ET Sunday, FS1
• Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway (formerly Dover Downs International Speedway and later Dover International Speedway) has hosted at least one Cup Series race each year since 1969, including two per year from 1971 to 2020.
• Nicknamed “The Monster Mile,” it was built in 1969 by Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc., with an asphalt surface, but was replaced with concrete in 1995.
Length: One mile
Track surface: Concrete
Safety apron and pit road surface: Asphalt, with concrete pit boxes
Banking: Straightaways, 9 degrees; Turns, 24 degrees
Width: Straightaways, 48 feet; Turns, 58 feet Safety apron: Encircles the inside of the track, 10 feet wide on straightaways, and 21 feet wide in the turns.
Number of pit positions: 40, with water and electric
Length of straightaways: 1,076 feet
Length of pit road: 1,580 feet long, and 47 feet wide
Monster Mile Cup records:
Fastest qualifying lap, Denny Hamlin, 166.984 mph (21.559 seconds), Oct. 5, 2019 Fastest race (400 miles), Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 135.734 mph (2:56:49), Oct. 6, 2019 Fastest race (500 miles), Bill Elliott, Ford, 125.945 mph (3:58:00), Sept. 16, 1990