NASCAR Cup Series NASCAR All-Star Race
Dover Motor Speedway Track Length: 1 Mile Concrete Oval
Sunday, May 17 1 p.m. ET TV: FS1 & FOX Deportes, 12 p.m. ET (Noon) Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90) Distance: 350 miles (350 Laps); Segment 1 (75 Laps), Segment 2 (75 Laps), Final Segment (200 Laps) Final Segment Competition Break: At or Around Lap 225
The Purse: $3,093,000
NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series BetRivers 200
Dover Motor Speedway Track Length: 1 Mile Concrete Oval
Saturday, May 16 4 p.m. ET TV: CW, 3:30 p.m. ET Radio: PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 200 miles (200 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 45), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 90), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 200) The Purse: $1,653,590
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series ECOSAVE 200
Dover Motor Speedway Track Length: 1 Mile Concrete Oval
Friday, May 15 5 p.m. ET TV: FS1, 5 p.m. ET Radio: NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 200 miles (200 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 45), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 90), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 200) The Purse: $789,700
NASCAR Canada Series CarGurus 200
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (ON) 3.957 km (2.459 mi), 10-Turn Road Course
May 17 2:00 p.m. ET. Watch the event live on REV TV and TVA Sports 2, with tape-delayed coverage available on TSN
Dover Motor Speedway
- Dover Motor Speedway, a.k.a. ‘The Monster Mile’, opened in 1969 as a unique dual-purpose facility designed to accommodate both harness racing and motorsports events.
- The first speedway race was a NASCAR Cup Series race, the “Mason-Dixon 300,” on July 6, 1969 won by NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty.
- The first Dover race on the concrete surface was June 4, 1995 won by Kyle Petty from 37th-place starting position; the deepest in the field a winner has started at the 1-mile track..
- The track has undergone many improvements and additions over the years. In 2006, the ‘Monster Makeover’ was launched This long-term program included an expanded Media Center, enlarged pit
road, new Skybox complex, new sound system, overall beautification, fan plaza and an outdoor concert area. - Miles The Monster – the 46-foot tall sculpture at Victory Plaza was introduced in 2008.
- This season is the first-time Dover Motor Speedway has hosted the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race.
- Did You Know? Dover Motorsports Inc. in collaboration with Red Frog Events has hosted the Firefly Music Festival at The Woodlands of Dover
Motor Speedway since 2012, a four day music festival held during mid-summer.
NASCAR Cup Series
The NASCAR Cup Series exhibition — with a $1 million prize on the line — transitions from the North Carolina confines of North Wilkesboro Speedway — which hosted the All-Star Race from 2023-25 — to Delaware’s “Monster Mile” on Sunday (1 p.m. ET, FS1, HBO Max, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
In place of an All-Star Open, qualifying results will instead determine the full field for Segment 1, a 75-lap sprint as part of the 350-lap event. Following the conclusion of Segment 1, a second 75-lap dash will occur; the lineup for Segment 2 will be an inversion of Segment 1’s top 26, with the remaining drivers lined up by finish.
In addition to a change of venue, the 2026 All-Star Race format itself will have a different flavor, starting with a larger emphasis on Saturday’s qualifying. Competitors will take the green flag and run one full lap at speed around the 1-mile circuit. The second lap will feature the Mechanix Wear Pit Crew Challenge, where each pit crew will perform a single four-tire stop with no gas. Competitors will then race back to the start/finish line, with qualifying encompassing the total time from green flag to checkered flag. The pit crew with the fastest pit stop and no penalties will win the Pit Crew Challenge, with the results determining pit selection order for the All-Star Race.
In place of an All-Star Open, qualifying results will instead determine the full field for Segment 1, a 75-lap sprint as part of the 350-lap event. Following the conclusion of Segment 1, a second 75-lap dash will occur; the lineup for Segment 2 will be an inversion of Segment 1’s top 26, with the remaining drivers lined up by finish.
The final 200-lap segment of the 2026 All-Star Race will consist of 26 drivers and will include a competition break at or around Lap 75. The field for the final segment will include 2025 and 2026 Cup Series race winners, former Cup Series champions who compete full-time, a Fan Vote winner and remaining drivers based on the lowest combined finishing positions among Segments 1 and 2. When combining the results of Segments 1 and 2, if there is a tie, the first tiebreaker is the best finish in either segment and the second tiebreaker is the best finish in Segment 1.
NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
JUSTIN ALLGAIER’S RECORD-BREAKING SEASON
31 career wins are tied for 6th all-time with Jack Ingram
Point lead over second of 155 points is greater than the gap from second to tenth
Leads all drivers with 3 wins, 5 Top 2s, 9 Top 5s, 11 Top 10s, 7.3 avg finish and 5 stage wins in 2026
Finished Top 5 in 24 of 26 stages this season
Allgaier, with two, is the only previous Dover winner in the field this weekend
JR MOTORSPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP SURGE
JR Motorsports had at least one car finish in the Top 10 in 70 consecutive races, the second-longest streak all-time
Through 13 races, JR Motorsports is ahead of their 2025 pace in wins, Top 2s, Top 5s, Top 10s, stage wins, laps led and average finish
JR Motorsports won with four of their five cars and four of their ten drivers this season
Manufacturer Dominance
Chevrolet won 11 of the 13 races, 23 of 26 stages and led all but 384 laps this season
Sixteen different teams earned at least one Top 10 finish this season
PIT CREW EXCELLENCE AND PERFORMANCE DATA
Joe Gibbs Racing has had 3 of the 5 fastest four-tire stops of the season with 3 different crews
Ten different drivers won the Fastest Lap Award this season
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
DOVER’S RETURN AFTER SIX-YEAR ABSENCE
This is the 22nd Truck race held at Dover, and the first since August 2020
Its been 2,093 days since the last Dover Truck race on August 21, 2020
Dover is one of three new or returning tracks for the Truck Series schedule in 2026
There have been 134 races on 32 different tracks since the last time Dover hosted a Truck race
KYLE BUSCH’S RETURN TO DOVER AFTER 12 YEARS
Kyle Busch is the only driver entered who has won in Trucks at Dover
Busch will be making his first NTS start at Dover since May 2014
Kyle Busch has 11 wins on concrete tracks including 4 at Dover, both are the most all-time
This marks 4,368 days between Dover Truck starts for Busch
Honeycutt’s Breakout Weekend
Kaden Honeycutt’s Great Weekend
Friday
Won first career ARCA race at Watkins Glen
Won first career NTS race at Watkins Glen
Saturday
Won CARS Tour Pro Late Model at Ace Speedway
Won CARS Tour Late Model Stock at Ace Speedway
CLINT BOWYER’S RETURN TO COMPETITION
46 years old from Emporia, KS
10 NCS wins in 541 starts over 15 full time seasons
3 NTS wins in 15 starts, most recently Kansas 2011
One NTS start at Dover, finished 34th in 2007 driving for Kevin Harvick
NASCAR on FOX analyst since 2021
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