BROADCAST INFORMATION: Sunday’s race at Dover International Speedway will air live on FOX Sports 1 at 1 p.m. ET. Can’t make it to a television? The race can be heard live on MRN and SIRIUSXM NASCAR Radio. Below is the broadcast schedule for the remainder of the weekend.
FRIDAY, JUNE 2
10:30 a.m. ET: NASCAR Cup Series practice, FOX Sports 2
3:50 p.m. ET: NASCAR Cup Series qualifying, FOX Sports 1
SATURDAY, JUNE 3
9 a.m. ET: NASCAR Cup Series practice, FOX Sports 1
11:30 a.m. ET: NASCAR Cup Series final practice, FOX Sports 1
SUNDAY, JUNE 4
1 p.m. ET: NASCAR Cup Series race, FOX Sports 1
THIS WEEKEND’S PAINT SCHEMES: Kasey Kahne will drive the No. 5 Great Clips Chevrolet SS, Chase Elliott will man the No. 24 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet SS, Jimmie Johnson will pilot the No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet SS and Dale Earnhardt Jr will drive the No. 88 Nationwide Chevrolet SS.
HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS AT DOVER: At Dover International Speedway, Hendrick Motorsports has 18 wins, nine pole positions, 60 top-five finishes and 98 top-10s. Johnson most recently visited Victory Lane for the organization at the track in May 2015.
KAHNE AT DOVER: The Enumclaw, Washington, native has started on the outside pole position three times at the “Monster Mile.” In his NASCAR Cup Series career, Kahne has started inside the top-10 eight times at the concrete track. In both of Kahne’s last two spring race starts he’s finished fourth. With the exception of last year’s fall race, the 37-year-old hasn’t finished outside of the top 10 in the last two years at the Dover, Delaware, track.
ELLIOTT’S DOVER STATS: The Dawsonville, Georgia, native is set to make his third Cup start at Dover this weekend. Elliott has collected third-place finishes in both Cup Series starts at the one-mile concrete oval and averages a starting position of 11.0 and a finishing position of 3.0. Elliott also has four starts in the NASCAR XFINITY Series at the Dover, Delaware, track. In those four starts, the 21-year-old driver has garnered two top-five finishes, four top-10s, led 19 laps and averages a starting position of 6.0 and finishing position of 5.2.
JOHNSON AT DOVER: Johnson won at Dover for the first time on June 2, 2002, in just his 16th start as a NASCAR Cup Series driver. He followed that up the same year by winning the fall event to sweep the season. Click here to see photos from Johnson’s first win at the "Monster Mile."
EARNHARDT’S MONSTER MILE STATS: According to NASCAR's loop data statistics, Earnhardt ranks seventh among active drivers since 2005 in the “closers” category, improving 15 positions over the last 10 percent of the race at Dover International Speedway. The driver of the No. 88 Nationwide Chevrolet SS also ranks sixth for green-flag passes during that span at the one-mile oval, completing 956 green-flag passes.