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Pit Stops : Dover Motor Speedway

Wurth 400

Dover Motor Speedway , Dover, DE

Sunday, April 30th, 2023 Race 11 of 36 2023 Season
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  • Dover International Speedway
  • Wurth 400
  • Pole Winner: Kyle Busch
  • Age: 37
  • Team: No. 8 - Lenovo Chevrolet
  • Owner: Richard Childress Racing
  • Crew Chief: Randall Burnett
  • Start positions set by NASCAR's Performance Metrics Qualifying (PMQ).
  • Kyle Busch won the Pole Award for the Wurth 400 by having the highest total PMQ.
  • PMQ is a total number calculated on four performance metrics from the previous race:
  • 15% of the driver's fastest lap time position.
  • 25% of the driver's final race finish position.
  • 25% of the owner's final race position.
  • 35% of the Owner Points position.

  • Monday, May 1st, 2023
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Truex brothers sweep NASCAR national series races at Dover

You could say NASCAR's stop at Dover (De.) Motor Speedway was "All in the Family;” a kin-to-win kind of weekend. Martin Truex Jr. answered his younger brother Ryan's NASCAR Xfinity Series victory on Saturday with a win in Monday's rain-delayed Wurth 400 NASCAR Cup Series race – the fourth win of his career at the one-mile oval he considers his "home track"

Truex, who started 17thin the 36-car field after qualifying was cancelled due to weather, methodically worked his way forward in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. The 42-year-old New Jersey native finally took the lead for the first time with 69 laps remaining and led all but one of those final laps to claim his first points-paying victory of the season, ending a 54-race winless streak.

He and his JGR pit crew ultimately had to earn the win with pit strategy and pit execution. On a pit stop during the race's final caution period, Truex's team opted to put only right-side tires on his Toyota. With the quick stop, he was able to beat the field back out to the track and then on the ensuing re-start – with seven laps to go – hold off a hard-charging Ross Chastain, whose No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet had taken four fresh tires on the stop.

"It feels incredible," Truex said. "I feel like we've been close a bunch of times, that's for sure. Felt today, with that caution, what's going to happen here and then good call by [crew chief] James [Small] to take two (tires) and then I was able to get a pretty good re-start.

"Just thanks to everybody that stuck with me. … we knew we could do this. We've shown we can lead laps and have dominated races and it just never all came together. I've said we just had to keep doing what we were doing and not overthink it."

Chastain, who took his fourth stage win of the season, finished a slight .505-seconds behind Truex but was unable to make up any real ground on the leader in the closing laps after passing Ryan Blaney, who also took only two tires on that final stop.

"Gosh, so close again," said Chastain, who led 98 laps. "It's surreal to continue to race against my all-time heroes."

Penske Racing's Blaney finished third – his sixth Top-10 of the season and second Top-3 in the last two races. Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron led a race best 193 laps and won a series best sixth stage, to finish fourth. It marks the second time he's led the most laps in a race this year but not claimed the victory.

Truex's JGR teammates Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell finished fifth and sixth.

Tyler Reddick, Brad Keselowski, Chris Buescher and Josh Berry rounded out the Top-10. Berry was driving the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for Alex Bowman, who suffered a back injury racing sprint cars last Tuesday.

It marks the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series champion Truex's 32ndcareer win and first since a victory at Richmond, Va. on Sept. 11, 2021. Snapping the streak and sharing Dover's Victory Circle with his younger brother, Ryan, truly made the week for the veteran.

"It's just special, you know," Truex said. "This is a special place. Good day for my family and to see Ryan win Saturday he's worked so hard for so long to get good opportunities and it's awesome.

"And then for us, we've given away a few here over the years so it's nice to see it come around our way. Just excited and had a hot rod. Just needed to get it out front"

  • Drivers Entered: 36
  • Laps Scheduled: 400
  • Margin of Victory: 0.505 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 3 Hours 27 Minutes 47 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 115.505
  • Cautions: 7 for 46 laps
  • Lead Changes: 19
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,833 (5.2 passes per green flag lap)

  • Dover Motor Speedway
  • Wurth 400
  • Race Winner: Martin Truex Jr.
  • Age: 42
  • Team : No. 19 - Bass Pro Shops Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: James Small
  • Martin Truex Jr. won the W?rth 400, his 32nd victory in 632 Cup Series races.
  • This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in 2023.
  • This is his fourth victory and 19th top-10 finish in 33 races at Dover Motor Speedway.
  • Ross Chastain (second) posted his second top-10 finish in nine races at Dover Motor Speedway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2023.
  • Ryan Blaney (third) posted his third top-10 finish in 13 races at Dover Motor Speedway.
  • Ty Gibbs (13th) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • Ross Chastain leads the point standings by 3 points over Christopher Bell.
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Pit Stop Summary Report

Aggregate of each driver's pit stops during the race.

 
DRIVER
START
FINISH
STATUS
# STOPS
DRIVER / PIT CREW
FASTEST
SLOWEST
AVG TIME
RANK
DRIVER
AVG TIME
RANK
PIT CREW
AVG TIME
RANK

Ross Chastain
14
2
Running
7
37.564
44.105
42.569
1
33.134
9
9.435
1
Brad Keselowski
4
8
Running
7
42.648
44.023
43.116
2
33.017
5
10.100
3
Christopher Bell
2
6
Running
7
37.569
48.714
43.345
3
32.835
2
10.510
10
Josh Berry
23
10
Running
6
40.179
44.950
43.359
4
33.839
31
9.520
2
Ryan Blaney
3
3
Running
7
37.809
45.922
43.381
5
33.213
12
10.168
5
Daniel Suarez
15
35
Accident
1
43.421
43.421
43.421
6
33.124
8
10.297
7
William Byron
8
4
Running
7
42.926
44.385
43.441
7
33.175
11
10.267
6
Chris Buescher
5
9
Running
7
43.088
44.363
43.619
8
33.228
13
10.391
8
Kevin Harvick
12
19
Running
6
42.907
44.867
43.648
9
32.936
3
10.711
14
Corey Lajoie
27
14
Running
6
38.659
46.246
43.651
10
33.487
20
10.163
4
Kyle Busch
1
21
Running
5
42.274
46.401
43.666
11
32.528
1
11.138
20
Martin Truex Jr
17
1
Running
7
37.579
48.952
43.712
12
32.988
4
10.725
15
Todd Gilliland
35
25
Running
6
39.465
46.391
44.009
13
33.362
16
10.648
13
Austin Cindric
20
26
Running
7
43.547
45.037
44.193
14
33.640
27
10.552
11
Aric Almirola
19
24
Running
7
43.267
46.456
44.258
15
33.639
26
10.618
12
Kyle Larson
18
32
Running
4
43.145
46.550
44.355
16
33.922
34
10.434
9
Joey Logano
26
31
Accident
7
42.879
48.539
44.364
17
33.632
25
10.733
16
Ty Gibbs
24
13
Running
7
42.850
48.271
44.387
18
33.280
15
11.107
19
Erik Jones
11
16
Running
6
43.078
45.990
44.477
19
33.511
22
10.966
17
Denny Hamlin
13
5
Running
6
43.342
46.093
44.477
19
33.171
10
11.305
22

Pit Stop Detailed Report

Each 2- and 4-wheel pit stop during the race.

DRIVER
LEADER LAP
DRIVER LAP
DRIVER TIME
CREW TIME
TOTAL
TYPE

AJ Allmendinger
254
253
33.325
10.477
43.802
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
AJ Allmendinger
197
196
33.377
10.444
43.821
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
AJ Allmendinger
123
123
33.200
10.643
43.843
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
AJ Allmendinger
85
85
33.260
10.777
44.037
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
AJ Allmendinger
22
22
33.749
10.506
44.255
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
AJ Allmendinger
322
320
33.353
14.881
48.234
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Aric Almirola
85
85
32.857
10.410
43.267
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Aric Almirola
337
334
33.108
10.236
43.344
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Aric Almirola
123
123
34.822
8.875
43.697
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Aric Almirola
193
191
33.137
10.643
43.780
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Aric Almirola
37
36
33.443
10.358
43.801
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Aric Almirola
22
22
34.652
10.808
45.460
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Aric Almirola
254
252
33.457
12.999
46.456
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
199
199
32.839
9.809
42.648
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
123
123
32.905
9.776
42.681
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
253
253
32.889
10.076
42.965
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
388
388
33.231
9.807
43.038
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
22
22
32.631
10.576
43.207
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
85
85
33.075
10.176
43.251
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Brad Keselowski
324
323
33.546
10.477
44.023
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE