CONCORD, N. C. -- Hendrick Motorsports will head to Dover International Speedway Saturday and Sunday for another action-packed doubleheader weekend.
The weekend hosts two chances to take home a win, giving the drivers an opportunity to add to the win total. If a Hendrick Motorsports driver wins on both days, the organization will have 22 wins at Dover, which is the second-most wins at any track by any team.
Take a look at a few stats on Hendrick Motorsports' success at “the Monster Mile” as the doubleheader weekend approaches.
- At Dover, Chase Elliott has posted six top-five finishes in eight starts, four of which were top-three results. Among those was his overtime win in October 2018 and a runner-up performance in 2017. Elliott finished in the top three in both of his rookie appearances at Dover in 2016 – something only Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch and Davey Allison accomplished in their rookie seasons. His six top-five finishes are his most at a single track in his Cup career. The fifth-year driver has also led more laps (294) at the “Monster Mile” than any other track in the series.
- Calling the shots for 38 races at Dover, including two with William Byron and the No. 24 team, crew chief Chad Knaus has an impressive 11 wins, 17 top-five finishes and 25 top-10s at the 1-mile concrete oval. His 11 “Monster Mile” victories, all coming with Johnson and the No. 48 team, rank him first among active crew chiefs ahead of Matt Borland in second with three wins.
- Johnson is just one win shy of matching the record for the most all-time at Dover International Speedway. He currently has 11 wins while NASCAR Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip has 12. Johnson has led the most laps of any other driver at Dover with 3,110, which is 307 more than second-place Bobby Allison. His 9.92 average finish across 36 Dover starts is the third-best among active drivers, and he has a total of 25 top-10 finishes there. In the five races since his last “Monster Mile” win in June 2017, Johnson has three top-10 results at the track.
- Alex Bowman has made eight NASCAR Cup Series starts at Dover. The Tucson, Arizona, native finished second and third in the two events last season at the 1-mile track, marking back-to-back top-three finishes there. The 27-year-old driver also has six Dover starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, earning two top-five finishes with JR Motorsports in 2016. He led 33 laps in the spring Xfinity Series event that year and crossed the finish line third.
- Hendrick Motorsports has the longest active top-10 streak at Dover with at least one car finishing better than 11th in the last 19 NASCAR Cup Series races held there.
- Hendrick Motorsports has won 28% of the races it has entered at Dover International Speedway. Its 20 points-paying Cup victories at the 1-mile oval are tied for the third-most wins by any team at any track in NASCAR history. Hendrick Motorsports has recorded Dover wins with six different drivers: Johnson (11), Jeff Gordon (five), Elliott, Ricky Rudd, Ken Schrader and Geoff Bodine.
- Four NASCAR Cup Series races at Dover have ended in overtime – and Hendrick Motorsports has won them all. Johnson has visited victory lane in three Dover overtime races – in 2005, 2015 and 2017 – with Elliott winning one in 2018.
- If Hendrick Motorsports leads 50 laps during this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series doubleheader at Dover International Speedway, it will reach a major milestone: 70,000 laps led all-time. The team has led a Dover track record 6,846 laps, including a combined 172 in the two races held there last season
- Since its inception in 1984, Hendrick Motorsports has earned 259 race victories and holds the all-time records for championships (12), pole positions (226), top-five finishes (1,084), top-10s (1,872) and laps led (69,950) in points-paying NASCAR Cup Series competition. Including 2020, the organization has won at least one race in 35 consecutive seasons, the longest-ever streak. Hendrick Motorsports is nine wins away from tying Petty Enterprises’ all-time Cup record of 268.