Dover International Speedway (1 mile, short track, 2x 180-degree turns) in Dover, Delaware
The "Monster Mile" in Dover is one of their banking from 24 degrees to the spectacular Shorttracks and is similarly steep as Bristol, but with a mile of track length is twice as large. Although the two lines are 9 ° bends, however, arises when accelerating out of a similar catapult action averaging as in "Thunder Valley". The change from 24 ° to 9 ° runs quite abruptly, so that it quickly in the wall. Another common with Bristol is the story of the track surface of both race tracks: After the usual first asphalt was used, changed this in the mid-90s in both places. At Dover and Bristol are now the only Cup race held on a concrete pavement.
Since 1969 is moved to the Dover spring races and two years later was also the fall race. The Dover International Speedway is also one of the last three Cup races that are not from NASCAR's "International Speedway Corporation" or Bruton Smith's "Speedway Motorsports, Inc." on hold. The other two tracks are of course the Pocono and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The "Dover Motorsports' group is also owned by the Nashville Superspeedway, Gateway International Raceway and the Memphis Motorsports Park on these three routes are regular race of the other two NASCAR national series.
In recent years much has been built in Dover. First, there has been a year of great "Miles, The Monster" statue, which perpetuates the concrete monster mascot of the route. The 14m high way, Miles has a COT in original size in his hand. Last winter was also worked on the track itself: In the meantime, fortunately all lawns have been removed on the Apron, which I think would do well after each oval to improve safety considerably. Too often slip on many ovals are considered less lightly, because a car has become hooked on the transition between support driveways and lawns and flipped over. In addition, the pit wall rebuilt and extended with a SAFER Barrier provided to enable a court 43ten boxes. By reducing the apron is now also a broader outer lane in the pits are available.
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