Practice

Wurth 400

Sunday, April 30th, 2023

Dover Motor Speedway, Dover, DE

  • 16 Chevrolet
  • 14 Ford
  • 6 Toyota

  • 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.
 Josh Berry shares a laugh with crew chief Alan Gustafson
Dover, Delaware - April 29, 2023 : Josh Berry, driver of the #48 Ally Chevrolet, shares a laugh with crew chief Alan Gustafson on the grid during practice for the NASCAR Cup Series Würth 400 at Dover International Speedway.
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Wurth 400 at Dover Motor Speedway Practice results
# DRIVER MAKE RNK SPD TME BHND LAP LAPS 5- 10- 15- 20- 25- 30- 10-LAP FRM TO
16 AJ Allmendinger Chevrolet 24 155.052 23.218 0.528 3 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
10 Aric Almirola Ford 15 156.236 23.042 0.352 2 16 23.218 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
6 Brad Keselowski Ford 1 158.660 22.690 0.000 3 15 23.164 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 9 157.185 22.903 0.213 2 13 23.282 23.453 0 0 0 0 153.510 4 13
51 JJ Yeley Ford 32 153.721 23.419 0.729 2 14 23.726 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
22 Joey Logano Ford 6 157.501 22.857 0.167 1 17 23.200 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
4 Kevin Harvick Ford 21 155.494 23.152 0.462 3 17 23.487 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
8 Kyle Busch Chevrolet 29 154.506 23.300 0.610 4 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
19 Martin Truex Jr Toyota 7 157.350 22.879 0.189 3 16 23.161 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
34 Michael McDowell Ford 12 156.904 22.944 0.254 1 17 23.339 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 31 154.044 23.370 0.680 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr Chevrolet 14 156.685 22.976 0.286 3 17 23.231 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
5 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 2 157.832 22.809 0.119 1 13 23.369 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
12 Ryan Blaney Ford 11 157.089 22.917 0.227 2 14 23.260 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
7 Corey Lajoie Chevrolet 13 156.808 22.958 0.268 3 14 23.129 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
77 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 16 156.236 23.042 0.352 3 16 23.328 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 4 157.549 22.850 0.160 2 20 23.130 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
17 Chris Buescher Ford 20 155.763 23.112 0.422 3 15 23.338 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
43 Erik Jones Chevrolet 35 152.840 23.554 0.864 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
78 BJ McLeod Chevrolet 30 154.321 23.328 0.638 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
41 Ryan Preece Ford 8 157.205 22.900 0.210 2 18 23.315 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
99 Daniel Suarez Chevrolet 19 155.817 23.104 0.414 5 13 23.394 23.497 0 0 0 0 153.217 4 13
1 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 28 154.799 23.256 0.566 5 16 23.375 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
23 Bubba Wallace Toyota 10 157.123 22.912 0.222 1 13 23.296 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
24 William Byron Chevrolet 3 157.791 22.815 0.125 2 18 23.286 23.528 0 0 0 0 153.033 9 18
15 Brennan Poole Ford 34 153.022 23.526 0.836 3 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
45 Tyler Reddick Toyota 26 154.972 23.230 0.540 2 12 23.448 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
31 Justin Haley Chevrolet 25 155.025 23.222 0.532 3 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
20 Christopher Bell Toyota 23 155.199 23.196 0.506 5 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
2 Austin Cindric Ford 5 157.508 22.856 0.166 3 13 23.211 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
14 Chase Briscoe Ford 18 155.831 23.102 0.412 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
21 Harrison Burton Ford 22 155.494 23.152 0.462 4 15 23.317 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
42 Noah Gragson Chevrolet 36 152.827 23.556 0.866 4 17 23.865 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
48 Josh Berry Chevrolet 17 156.114 23.060 0.370 4 15 23.142 23.314 0 0 0 0 154.426 3 12
54 Ty Gibbs Toyota 27 154.945 23.234 0.544 5 18 23.343 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0
38 Todd Gilliland Ford 33 153.544 23.446 0.756 4 18 23.892 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0