Say What?!

"Racing at Dover is physically demanding. You’re in the corner around that track longer than you are going straight on the straightaways which means the time in which you’re doing the most work is the longest. It’s also very physically taxing just because of the roughness of the concrete surface and the constant beating that the driver takes in the seat from going over all the joints in the track." - Kyle Busch

"Certainly experience is important there, it’s a difficult place. It’s concrete and is a lot different than what we do most other weeks. It seems to always be a place where you are guessing what the track is going to do on Sunday. I think the veterans probably understand the place more than many because we’ve seen it do different things over the years. We’ve had a good cars and a good team there and have been fortunate to have a lot of good runs at Dover." - Martin Truex Jr.
 

"I don’t feel like I have done anything specifically that has made me run better, I just think Dover is a place I have done well at because it fits my style and I feel comfortable there. I have always felt good there even though I haven’t made a lot of starts there, and I always had good cars there, so it helped me a lot when I was learning the track and getting used to the layout.

"I just think that Dover is a place that takes a lot of commitment to drive it hard and you have to be able to maneuver and change lanes and have some race craft similar to how I came up in the Late Model cars. I don’t have a great explanation or a specific reason on why I have run well there, it just seems to come naturally to me." - Josh Berry
 

"Racing at Dover Motor Speedway is like a rollercoaster ride with no tracks. There isn’t another track like it. You carry a lot of pace there. When you drive down into the corner to get to the bottom of the track, it feels like you’re coming off a four-story building with the banking. You just try to catch your breath and get back on the gas to drive off the corner. We do that for 400 laps. Once you get into the race, you get into a rhythm, and you start to feel comfortable. The first couple of laps are always hard on you though. It’s a hard concrete track. We have to make sure our shock package is good, and hopefully, the No. 3 Chevrolet handles well. Maybe the line will move around, but it’s usually right around the bottom. As the rubber lays down, it gets harder to do more with the car. Dover is a Monster, but my team is up for the challenge.” - Austin Dillon