Dover International Speedway

Location	Dover, Delaware
Track length	1 miles (1.6 kilometres)
Track shape	Oval
Banking	Turns - 24° Straights - 9°
Major events	NASCAR Sprint Cup, NASCAR Nationwide Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Capacity	140,000
Address	1131 North Dupont Highway, Dover, Delaware, 19903
Owner	Dover Motorsports

Dover International Speedway (nickname: The Monster Mile) is a NASCAR race track located near Dover, Delaware. It is unusual in several respects. It is a concrete track; most NASCAR tracks are asphalt. It is co-located with a horse racing track, Dover Downs, and in fact is sometimes also referred to by this name. It is also exactly one mile long; technically this means that it is neither a superspeedway nor a short track. The speedway is also notoriously hard on cars, and its standard nickname is The Monster Mile. The horse track is part of an extensive entertainment complex including other forms of gambling; at one time both it and the speedway were owned by the publicly-traded Dover Downs Entertainment, but they have since been split into two separate enterprises, partly at the encouragement of NASCAR. At one time the Winston Cup races held here were 500 miles long until a NASCAR rules change limited 500 mile races to being held only at tracks over a mile in length; the current Sprint Cup races here are 400 miles long. Dover also hosted Indy Racing League races in 1998 and 1999 won by Scott Sharp and Greg Ray.

The same company owning Dover Downs also owns several other racetracks, including Nashville Superspeedway; it has been suggested that one of the two current Cup races held there could be shifted to Nashville but this seems unlikely as both current Cup races at Dover are easily sold out. The Dover ownership is one of only three publicly-held ownership groups of NASCAR tracks, the other two being International Speedway Corporation, controlled by NASCAR's founding France family and owners of the Talladega and Daytona tracks, among others, and Speedway Motorsports, Inc., led by Bruton Smith and H. A. "Humpy" Wheeler, which owns Lowe's Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway, among others. Aside from these three ownership groups, NASCAR tracks are privately held by one or a few individuals.

See also: List of NASCAR race tracks

RecordsEdit

• NASCAR Sprint Cup Qualifying: Jeremy Mayfield, 22.288 sec. (161.522 mph), 2004
• NASCAR Sprint Cup Race: Mark Martin, 132.719 mph, September 21, 1997
• NASCAR Nationwide Series Qualifying: David Green, 22.797 sec. (157.915 mph), 2004
• NASCAR Nationwide Series Race: Brian Vickers, 133.154 mph, September 20, 2003
• NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Qualifying: David Starr, 22.846 sec. (157.577 mph), 2005
• NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race: Ted Musgrave, 104.545 mph, May 31, 2002

Current racesEdit

• NASCAR Sprint Cup Autism Speaks 400
• NASCAR Sprint Cup AAA 400
• NASCAR Nationwide Series Heluva Good! 200
• NASCAR Nationwide Series Dover 200
• NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Dover 200

External linksEdit

• Dover International Speedway Official Site
• Dover International Speedway Page on NASCAR.com
• High Resolution image from Google Maps