Practice #1 : Dover Motor Speedway
All-Star Race
Dover Motor Speedway , Dover, DE
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- Dover Motor Speedway
- NASCAR All-Star Race
- Busch Pole Award Pole Winner: Denny Hamlin
- Age: 45
- Team : No 11 - Progressive Insurance Toyota
- Owner: Joe Gibbs
- Crew Chief: Chris Gayle
- Denny Hamlin won the Pole Award for the NASCAR All-Star Race with a lap of 109298 seconds, 98812 mph
- This is his second All-Star Race pole (2015 and 2026)
- Won the All-Star Race from the pole in 2015
- Eighth All-Star Race pole for Joe Gibbs Racing
- The No 38 Team has won the Mechanix Wear Pit Crew Challenge
- Drivers Entered: 36
- Laps Scheduled: 350
- Laps Actual: 200 - Race Shortened
- Margin of Victory: 0.887 Seconds
- Time of Race: 1 Hours 33 Minutes 51 Seconds
- Average Speed: 127.864
- Cautions: 2 for 14 laps
- Lead Changes: 9
- Green Flag Passes: 509 (2.7 passes per green flag lap)
- Dover Motor Speedway
- NASCAR All-Star Race
- Race Winner: Denny Hamlin
- Age: 45
- Team : No 11 - Progressive Insurance Toyota
- Owner: Joe Gibbs
- Crew Chief: Chris Gayle
- Denny Hamlin won the NASCAR All-Star Race, his second victory in the NASCAR All-Star Race (2015 Charlotte, 2026 Dover)
- Hamlin the third driver to win the All-Star at multiple tracks; joining Kyle Larson and Joey Logano
- 10th driver to win multiple All-Star races
- Second oldest All-Star Race winner (record: Mark Martin 2005 ? 46 y: 04 m: 12 d)
- 11 years is tied for the longest gap between All-Star Race wins - Kevin Harvick (2007, 2018) and Terry Labonte (1988, 1999)
- Connor Zilisch (fifth) was the highest finishing rookie
- This is Joe Gibbs Racing's fourth All-Star Race win (2015, 2017, 2025, 2026)
