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Race #29 of 36

AAA 400

Location - Dover International Speedway, Dover, Deleware

Course Type - 1 Mile Oval

Race Distance - 400 Laps / 400 Miles

Date & TV Schedule - Sunday, September 30th - Pre-Race Show - 1:00 pm Eastern / Green Flag-Approx. 2:15pm Eastern - ESPN / Sirius Radio -channel 90 & MRN

Practice Sessions -
Friday, September 28th - 11:00 AM -12:25 PM Eastern & 2:40 - 4:15 PM Eastern -Happy Hour - SPEED

Qualifications- Saturday, September 29th -1:40 PM Eastern -SPEED


2011 AAA 400 Race Information

2011 Pole Sitter - #56 Martin Truex Jr - 159.004 mph
2011 Winner - #22 Kurt Busch
Number of Cautions - 10 for 44 laps
Lead Changes - 24
Length of Race - 3 hours, 30 minutes, 59 seconds
Average Speed - 119.413 mph
Margin Of Victory - .908 seconds

Dover International Speedway

Length - 1 mile
Banking
Turns - 24 degrees
Straights - 9 degrees
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Entry List...

1. #1 Jamie McMurray
2. #2 Brad Keselowski
3. #5 Kasey Kahne
4. #6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
5. #9 Marcos Ambrose
6. #10 Danica Patrick
7. #11 Denny Hamlin
8. #13 Casey Mears
9. #14 Tony Stewart
10. #15 Clint Bowyer
11. #16 Greg Biffle
12. #17 Matt Kenseth
13. #18 Kyle Busch
14. #19 Mike Bliss
15. #20 Joey Logano
16. #22 Sam Hornish Jr.
17. #23 Scott Riggs
18. #24 Jeff Gordon
19. #26 Josh Wise
20. #27 Paul Menard
21. #29 Kevin Harvick
22. #30 David Stremme
23. #31 Jeff Burton
24. #32 TJ Bell
25. #33 Cole Whitt
26. #34 David Ragan
27. #36 JJ Yeley
28. #37 TBA
29. #38 David Gilliland
30. #39 Ryan Newman
31. #42 Juan Pablo Montoya
32. #43 Aric Almirola
33. #47 Bobby Labonte
34. #48 Jimmie Johnson
35. #49 Jason Leffler
36. #51 Kurt Busch
37. #55 Mark Martin
38. #56 Martin Truex Jr.
39. #78 Regan Smith
40. #79 Kelly Bires
41. #83 Landon Cassill
42. #87 Joe Nemechek
43. #88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
44. #91 Reed Sorenson
45. #93 Travis Kvapil
46. #95 Scott Speed
47. #98 Michael McDowell
48. #99 Carl Edwards

** Drivers In Red Must Qualify On Time
 
I was debating going this weekend since Dover is the best track near me that is semi close but I'll be skipping it this year, first time since like 2008 where I haven't attended at least one race in Dover.
 
I can't help but wonder how much longer this track can support two races/season. I think those days are numbered.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
I can't help but wonder how much longer this track can support two races/season. I think those days are numbered.
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DanicaFan said:
Why ? Its one of the best tracks.
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The crowds are getting less and less every race. I've watched the place go from full every race to more and more sponsor ad tarps covering entire sections. The ticket prices are still on the high side. I think I usually paid around 100 something for a seat like 30 rows up in turn 4. Between that and the gas prices I just don't feel like it's worth the 3hr trip down there this year. I usually drive down and back for the cup race because the hotel prices are way too expensive to make it worth going down for the entire weekend, especially when I can watch it on my hdtv instead and not have to deal with driving home which usually takes forever.
 
I love Dover. This weekend Danica will tame the monster. Im looking for great finishes for her.
 
DanicaFan said:
Why ? Its one of the best tracks.
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I went to the spring race @ Dover from 1991-2010 and also many fall races. I agree, it's a great track IMO too. Unfortunately many other fans don't agree. Like SHGR said the attendance is the reason. It doesn't matter how good a race is. If people don't show up, they won't continue to race there.

SHGR, my seats were also in turn #4, top row, isle in the original section. It was $86/seat. Once you jump up to the next tier the prices climbed. We must have sat pretty close to each other there? I could look over my right shoulder and see Miles the Monster from my seat.
 
Go ever June and they are $86 though this year as a reward for renewing them so early they were half price, but we've also had the seats for nearly 20 years.
 
kkfan91 said:
Go ever June and they are $86 though this year as a reward for renewing them so early they were half price, but we've also had the seats for nearly 20 years.
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$43 a seat, dang! That can't be beat.

If I weren't already going to Martinsville next month, that would be worth a ride out there. It's only a 7 hour trip for us hauling the 5er.

My problem with Dover was when they moved their spring race date into May. We couldn't take the kids out of school that time of the year. Now that they've moved back we may reconsider.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
$43 a seat, dang! That can't be beat.

If I weren't already going to Martinsville next month, that would be worth a ride out there. It's only a 7 hour trip for us hauling the 5er.

My problem with Dover was when they moved their spring race date into May. We couldn't take the kids out of school that time of the year. Now that they've moved back we may reconsider.
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I'm not sure if thats a regular policy or just for having them for so long though.
 
kkfan91 said:
I'm not sure if thats a regular policy or just for having them for so long though.
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They want people there, bad. I held tickets for exactly 20 years to that track. After I called and cancelled my account with them they offered me all kinds of perks. It really didn't matter as the date simply didn't work out for us. I'd bet they still have pretty good offers to get people back. Now that they are back to their after Memorial Day date we may have to go back there.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
They want people there, bad. I held tickets for exactly 20 years to that track. After I called and cancelled my account with them they offered me all kinds of perks. It really didn't matter as the date simply didn't work out for us. I'd bet they still have pretty good offers to get people back. Now that they are back to their after Memorial Day date we may have to go back there.
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May really was a bad deal for them, I still went but it was hard because it was the first weekend after finishing the year for college, so I had to come home all the way from Vermont friday night then unpack saturday and head to dover early sunday. Which isn't really that hard a trip on a good day it takes about an hour.
 
I'd love it if Dover were closer to me. I have MIS, Indy and Chicago all within 4 hours which is cool but I really with there were something a mile or less.
 
Where I'm moving, Martinsville and Bristol, along with A LOT of great late model tracks, will be within a few hours.
 
What some of the Chase contenders are driving this weekend.....

#2-Brad Keselowski: The No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger team will race chassis PRS-813 during Sunday's AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway (DIS). Keselowski last raced this chassis to a fourth-place finish at Pocono Raceway last month. It has been updated to the current Penske Racing specification.

#5-Kasey Kahne: Crew chief Kenny Francis has selected Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 5-717 for Sunday's race at Dover. Kahne has raced this car to three top-10 finishes in three starts this season, including an eighth-place result in April at Kansas Speedway, a track in the Chase.

#14-Tony Stewart: Chassis No. 14-708: This car debuted in May in the Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C) Raceway where Stewart rallied Chassis No. 14-708 from its 17th-place starting spot to finish third. Its second start came in June at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. It endured a much different outing, qualifying 29th and finishing 25th, 69 laps down after getting caught up in a 12-car accident on lap 10 of the 400-lap race around the 1-mile, concrete oval. With new sheet metal all around, Chassis No. 14-708 returned to the concrete for its third career start in August for the night race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. There, the car rallied from being a lap down in 34th place early in the race to vying for the lead with Matt Kenseth on lap 333. Stewart and Kenseth banged fenders and crashed, whereupon Stewart threw his helmet with pinpoint accuracy at Kenseth's car. The resulting 27th-place finish was at least offset by the "10" Stewart received from the Bristol crowd. Chassis No. 14-708 will make its fourth career start and second at Dover in the AAA 400 on Sunday.

#15-Clint Bowyer: Primary chassis No. 733 finished sixth a Pocono in June and eighth at Pocono in August in its only racing action this season. Backup chassis No. 716 finished sixth at Las Vegas and also ran at Kansas, Kentucky and Indy.

#16-Greg Biffle: Primary: RK-809 Last ran Michigan - finished 4th; Backup: RK-803 Last ran Pocono - finished 15th

#17-Matt Kenseth: Primary: RK-802 (Last run at Bristol)

#29-Kevin Harvick: will pilot Chassis No.383 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable in this weekend's AAA 400. Harvick raced this chassis at Phoenix International Raceway in March and Dover International Speedway in June, collecting second-place finishes in both events. Most recently, the Bakersfield, Calif., native drove this Chevrolet to a 15th-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway in August.

#48-Jimmie Johnson:: Chassis No. 728 serves as the primary for Johnson at Dover. Chassis No. 681 serves as the backup.

#88-Dale Earnhardt, Jr.: Crew chief Steve Letarte and the No. 88 team will unload Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 88-745 this weekend at Dover. Earnhardt first raced this chassis to a 12th-place finish at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway in August.

Info from jayski.com
 
Dover Goodyear Tire Notes: Teams in both the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series will run the same Goodyear tire codes at Dover this weekend . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that Sprint Cup and Nationwide teams ran at Dover earlier this season . . . these teams have also run this right-side tire code (D-4440) at Kentucky in 2012 . . . this tire set-up came out of a Goodyear test prior to the spring race at Dover on April 17-18 . . . drivers participating in that test were A.J. Allmendinger, Marcos Ambrose, Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick, Ryan Newman and Martin Truex Jr. . . . Dover is unique among NASCAR ovals one mile or less in length, in that inner liners are required on all four tire positions . . . air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.

Info from jayski.com
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
The following is how I envision a race on 'wet tires'. Please fast forward to 1m 52s

I love that video.
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THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! And with 62 cars in the field, there were plenty left.

That wartime news reel music is hilariuos.
 
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