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NASCAR Cup Series

Wurth 400

Dover International Speedway

April 28th, 2024

Race #11 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

Laps Scheduled: 400
Miles Raced : 400.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 20 minutes 57 seconds
Average Speed: 119.433 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.256 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 42
Lead Changes: 12

Kyle Larson, Alex Bowman, Bubba Wallace and Brad Keselowski — Dover, Delaware - April 28th, 2024: Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, Alex Bowman, driver of the #48 Ally Chevrolet, Bubba Wallace, driver of the #23 XFINITY/U.S. AIR FORCE Toyota, and Brad Keselowski, driver of the #6 BuildSubmarines.com Ford, race during the NASCAR Cup Series Würth 400 at Dover International Speedway. Photo by James Gilbert | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Denny Hamlin	6	6	1	1	1	18	4.1	+5	51	52	-1	30	59	99.8%	136	400	140.8	53
Kyle Larson	21	2	2	2	1	22	5.0	+19	58	39	+19	35	53	95.0%	39	400	120.9	51
Martin Truex Jr	15	3	3	3	1	20	4.4	+12	55	44	+11	35	48	99.3%	69	400	121.7	51
Kyle Busch	1	7	5	4	1	11	5.1	-3	35	33	+2	28	26	100.0%	34	400	115.0	42
Chase Elliott	29	8	6	5	2	31	9.7	+24	66	46	+20	36	14	87.8%	0	400	97.8	40
Noah Gragson	5	21	4	6	2	29	12.8	-1	59	64	-5	18	2	52.8%	0	400	86.6	31
Ryan Blaney	2	9	7	7	1	18	5.3	-5	37	42	-5	22	23	99.5%	47	400	109.1	40
Alex Bowman	9	5	9	8	2	19	7.0	+1	49	46	+3	30	26	99.3%	0	400	100.1	41
Daniel Hemric	14	24	8	9	1	29	19.2	+5	69	65	+4	11	1	22.0%	5	400	68.4	28
Ty Gibbs	19	12	11	10	3	22	13.2	+9	63	55	+8	28	5	66.0%	0	400	83.6	27
Tyler Reddick	4	4	12	11	2	19	6.4	-7	38	45	-7	23	15	99.3%	0	400	99.7	38
Ross Chastain	22	17	10	12	6	26	15.8	+10	69	65	+4	23	0	40.0%	0	400	75.0	25
AJ Allmendinger	10	14	14	13	7	33	12.3	-3	60	66	-6	26	7	96.3%	0	400	84.8	0
Josh Berry	12	16	13	14	11	25	15.5	-2	54	56	-2	16	5	54.3%	0	400	76.7	23
Austin Cindric	11	22	15	15	7	33	17.7	-4	45	56	-11	11	1	37.0%	0	400	70.0	22
Joey Logano	13	19	16	16	7	28	18.6	-3	52	70	-18	7	0	6.3%	0	400	63.2	21
Chris Buescher	18	13	17	17	12	24	15.5	+1	52	60	-8	15	3	47.5%	0	400	71.1	20
Daniel Suarez	31	27	18	18	2	32	24.9	+13	62	49	+13	8	1	2.3%	0	399	51.2	19
Chase Briscoe	7	23	19	19	5	32	18.5	-12	53	67	-14	10	1	19.3%	0	399	63.4	18
John Hunter Nemechek	34	26	20	20	10	35	25.2	+14	58	57	+1	1	0	0.5%	0	398	49.3	17
Corey Lajoie	25	1	21	21	1	30	21.6	+4	53	58	-5	7	7	10.0%	33	398	53.6	16
Carson Hocevar	20	32	22	22	10	32	24.5	-2	45	56	-11	0	0	0.5%	0	397	51.8	15
Justin Haley	36	30	23	23	13	36	28.8	+13	60	50	+10	0	2	0.3%	0	397	43.1	14
Zane Smith	37	29	25	24	13	37	30.5	+13	50	45	+5	4	0	0.8%	0	397	35.0	13
Corey Heim	32	25	26	25	5	36	26.8	+7	72	70	+2	5	9	1.0%	0	397	46.3	0
Harrison Burton	26	33	24	26	11	35	28.4	+0	39	52	-13	0	0	0.3%	0	397	41.3	11
Austin Dillon	23	28	27	27	23	35	29.9	-4	40	53	-13	0	5	0.0%	0	396	41.9	10
Jimmie Johnson	27	34	28	28	12	35	31.2	-1	40	45	-5	0	0	0.3%	0	395	37.2	9
Kaz Grala	35	35	29	29	29	37	33.8	+6	8	6	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	394	28.7	8
Brad Keselowski	24	31	30	30	12	35	27.1	-6	64	52	+12	11	8	19.0%	0	383	52.6	7
Todd Gilliland	30	36	31	31	26	37	34.4	-1	19	10	+9	0	0	0.0%	0	379	29.2	6
Bubba Wallace	16	11	32	32	1	18	15.5	-16	47	41	+6	27	2	76.8%	1	329	69.3	6
William Byron	3	18	33	33	1	27	13.3	-30	48	64	-16	8	15	46.3%	36	329	81.6	13
Christopher Bell	33	15	34	34	8	34	21.8	-1	82	57	+25	10	3	31.3%	0	328	54.2	3
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	17	10	35	35	5	29	15.4	-18	47	45	+2	27	5	76.3%	0	320	72.1	5
Michael McDowell	8	20	36	36	5	35	28.1	-28	51	56	-5	10	4	13.8%	0	285	44.4	1
Ryan Preece	28	37	37	37	26	36	35.9	-9	8	14	-6	0	1	0.0%	0	66	27.1	1

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Race Fast Facts

Dover Motor Speedway
Wurth 400
Race Winner: Denny Hamlin
Age: 43
Team : No. 11 - Mavis Tire Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
Crew Chief: Christopher Gabehart
Denny Hamlin won the W?rth 400, his 54th victory in 661 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his third victory and fourth top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his second victory and 16th top-10 finish in 34 races at Dover Motor Speedway.
Kyle Larson (second) posted his 12th top-10 finish in 16 races at Dover Motor Speedway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2024.
Martin Truex Jr. (third) posted his 20th top-10 finish in 34 races at Dover Motor Speedway.
Josh Berry (14th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 15 points over Martin Truex Jr..

Race Recap

Denny Hamlin grabs third Cup win of the season at Dover

April 28th, 2024

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Denny Hamlin essentially called his shot this week, saying on his popular weekly podcast that he absolutely expected to win Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Wurth 400 at Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway. And the veteran backed it up – holding off championship leader Kyle Larson by a slight .256-second to claim his third win of the season and 54th of his career – tying the legend Lee Petty on the all-time wins list.

Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota took the lead from Larson during a late race pit stop cycle, beating him off pit road then leading the final 72 laps. He got the jump on Larson’s No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on both of the final two restarts then managed an advantage that was more than 2-seconds at one point with Larson closing on him.

Larson got within two-tenths of a second of Hamlin as they negotiated traffic on the famous one-mile Dover track in the closing laps but was unable to get close enough to attempt a pass.

“You’d better win, if you’re going to open your mouth, that’s for sure,” Hamlin said of his bold prediction to win.

Hamlin, 43, immediately gave credit to his No. 11 JGR team.

“Just a great team, they just did a great job,” said Hamlin, who led a race best 136 of the 400 laps.

“All the guys on the wall right here, they made it happen,” he said motioning to his cheering team on pit wall. Thank you to them and to [crew chief] Chris Gabehart. The whole team just gave me a great car.

“I think the key moment, really was Kyle did an excellent job executing during the green flag pit cycle ad then we were able to get the lead there on that restart, then got the caution that allowed us to control the restart. That was really the key moment for us and certainly feels good winning here at Dover.”

Larson was understandably disappointed standing next to his car after the race and explained that contact between his car and the No. 19 car on a late race restart hurt his chances of being able to get going properly and challenge Hamlin.

“I knew when I got within three car-lengths, he was going to start moving around,” said Larson, who led 39 laps. “I couldn’t really do anything. I was trying all sorts of different angles and speeds, all that. Nothing could generate enough speed to get close enough I guess, to do anything. That was a bummer.

“A great day for our HendrickCars.com Chevy team. Started 21st, drove up to sixth in the first stage or fifth. Got a stage win. Another stage win sounds good. Good points day. We would have loved to get a win.”

It was actually Hamlin’s JGR teammate Truex – the defending race winner – who looked strongest in the field early on. He led 69 laps and won the opening stage, only to lose ground on a slow pit stop mid-race. His Toyota suffered some frontend damage from the restart incident that Larson referred to, but Truex held ground all day to finish third. He remains in second place in the championship standings, 15 points behind Larson.

“Feel like we let one get away today,” Truex said. “Had a really strong Bass Pro Camry. You can’t lose control of these races mid-stage like that. The track changes and you get behind. Man, just stinks. Overall, a good day, just keep working on it.”

Dover polesitter Kyle Busch finished fourth in the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet and Hendrick’s Chase Elliott was fifth.

Stewart-Haas Racing’s Noah Gragson – coming off his best career finish (third) last week at Talladega, Ala. – finished sixth, his fourth top-10 of the year. Reigning champion, Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney was seventh followed by Hendrick’s Alex Bowman, Kaulig Racing’s Daniel Hemric and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ty Gibbs. It marked the second consecutive top-10 for Hemric, equaling his best result of the year.

It was a rough outing for the series’ other three-race winners this season, Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron. The perennial race favorite was involved in a three-car accident with 23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace and JGR’s Christopher Bell with 71 laps remaining. It marked the first DNF for Byron this season and the second consecutive DNF for both Wallace and Bell. Byron had an issue during a pit stop that left him mid-pack and that’s exactly where the incident happened.

“Just sucks,” Byron told the Performance Racing Network. “We had a good car early, but once we got in traffic, we were terrible.”

Also of note, Corey Heim finished 25th in his NASCAR Cup Series debut. The 21-year old substituted for the injured Erik Jones in the Legacy Motor Club No. 43 Toyota. His team co-owner, seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson finished 28th in his third start of the season.