Relive the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover Motor Speedway that saw a multitude of incidents in Stage 3 and a late-race battle to decide the win.
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00:00 >> Here we go, boys.
00:09 >> They come out of turn four.
00:11 Everybody on their feet.
00:14 Green flag for the worth 400.
00:23 >> We talked about it before the race started, Clint.
00:26 Outside or inside?
00:27 >> The outside just launched way better and that will be the case all day on the restarts.
00:38 >> Hamlin outside.
00:39 Byron for third or fourth, rather, as they complete lap one.
00:46 Noah Gregson looking on.
00:50 Still double wide in the second half of the field.
00:56 >> Coming back to the worth 400 from Dover, Delaware on FS1.
01:00 Green flag laps complete.
01:01 You are riding with a Ford performance cam on board Ryan Preece.
01:05 SHR number 41.
01:07 He is smoking.
01:08 >> They are looking at these shots.
01:11 Giving Ryan a report.
01:12 He can smell it.
01:13 He can see it.
01:14 He knows.
01:15 >> Look over there.
01:16 >> He's looking over there to see if there's any flames.
01:20 We'll keep him aware if there's anything that gets worse.
01:23 It's either rubber in the rocker panel or something that is down there smoldering.
01:29 Hopefully it doesn't.
01:31 >> First caution of the day in the worth 400 from Dover on FS1.
01:35 It's Todd Gilliland.
01:37 Watch coming off turn number four here.
01:40 >> Seen him coming up underneath.
01:41 Shot up the racetrack.
01:44 Got tight.
01:45 Got into Austin Dillon on the outside.
01:47 Trying to stay off of him.
01:48 Kevin spun it out.
01:50 >> That makes him spin out worse when you lift off the throttle like that.
01:53 You have to make a quick adjustment.
01:54 The back just unloads.
01:57 Both of them.
02:04 >> Now here's what happened to Tyler Redick coming out of his stall while they're trying
02:10 to guide Corey Himes, substitute driver, there for Eric Bell into his pit and with a different
02:15 crew chief, Joey Cohen, competition director for the 43 is there.
02:19 Dave Ellens left the track yesterday for a personal matter.
02:23 Here's the number 20.
02:24 Whoa, Christopher Bell as the tire changer goes to the ground.
02:28 They back him up to get that lug nut tight.
02:30 >> Those guys have had a ton of trouble on pit road with little stuff like that on the
02:34 20 car.
02:35 See the incident right here with the 45 and 43.
02:39 That's Dover pit road, Clint.
02:41 This is a narrow pit road.
02:42 It's easy to speed on because of the RPM.
02:44 See some damage right there on the 45.
02:47 That's not going to help.
02:48 >> For the restart, Blaney inside of William Byron.
02:51 >> Here we go.
02:59 >> Very good jump for Blaney on that inside.
03:01 Hard to do.
03:02 >> Yeah, it's just so hard to get the launch on the restart to be able to get the car to
03:06 not spin the tires.
03:08 On the new tires it becomes a little bit easier.
03:10 >> Truex on that outside.
03:14 Excuse me.
03:16 I think that's -- >> Denny Hamlin, hold on to it.
03:18 >> Chris chastain on that outside.
03:22 >> Three wide.
03:23 Big loose end for Denny Hamlin.
03:27 Lost some spots for sure.
03:29 >> Ryan Preece made a fire alarm pit stop while we were under a break there.
03:33 Jamie?
03:34 >> They brought it in.
03:35 They took a look at it.
03:36 As soon as he pulled back out on the track, he said it's still on fire.
03:37 He said it's not the door.
03:38 It's the foam that's on fire.
03:39 They said bring it to the garage.
03:40 It looks like the 41's day could be over.
03:41 >> I think they're going to have to get the 41 out of the way.
03:42 >> I think they're going to have to get the 41 out of the way.
03:43 >> I think they're going to have to get the 41 out of the way.
03:44 >> I think they're going to have to get the 41 out of the way.
03:45 They said bring it to the garage.
03:46 It looks like the 41's day could be over.
03:49 >> Here he comes.
03:51 >> This is the guy we all had our eye on last year's winner, martin Truex Jr.
03:54 We all know that.
03:55 He told us in the pre-race this is one of his favorite racetracks to drive.
03:59 He has a style that fits right here.
04:02 >> That one's coming with him too all the way from 21st.
04:05 Larson keeping an eye on him.
04:07 Already up to six.
04:08 >> Larson continues to march forward.
04:10 Remember, he started 21st.
04:11 >> We got one on the wall, Mike.
04:14 >> Oh, my gosh.
04:16 >> And this will end the stage as caution comes out.
04:19 >> Right rear tire is down, Kevin.
04:22 >> You're good.
04:23 Get it rolling.
04:24 And you're good.
04:32 >> Second caution of the day and they'll come around under caution to complete stage number
04:36 one.
04:37 Here's a look from the built submarines.com cam.
04:41 >> Here you go.
04:43 >> And outside, middle of the track.
04:46 You'll see him.
04:47 >> Trying to stay off of no one in front of him.
04:50 >> Hold the brake.
04:51 >> I think I actually heard the tire actually coming apart there, Clint.
04:55 You could actually hear it on the in car camera.
04:57 That right rear tire, it sounded like it was coming apart.
05:01 >> It's still up right there.
05:02 >> Yeah, but I think when they get low like that, I mean, we might have to go back and
05:06 listen again.
05:07 Just listen in the sound.
05:08 >> I think I can hear it.
05:13 >> Hear it?
05:17 >> I think you're hearing it.
05:18 >> Tick, tick, tick.
05:19 >> I think he got loose underneath of it.
05:22 >> Maybe.
05:23 >> Maybe.
05:24 >> All right.
05:25 Behind the Ford Mustang dark horse pace car, martin Truex Jr.'s Toyota takes its fifth
05:30 stage win at Dover.
05:33 Second only to Kevin Harvick's six stage wins here.
05:37 He'll restart 26th.
05:38 We're back to green.
05:39 Martin Truex outside William Byron for the lead.
05:49 >> We noted William Byron's car really took off, had great speed on the front side of
05:52 that run.
05:53 Surely some adjustments were made.
05:55 Let's see if they were what he needed.
05:58 >> One thing I noticed right there is the back of martin Truex's car bottomed out.
06:01 You can see that dust come out of the diffuser.
06:03 You want to run the back of this car as low as you can to make as much down force as you
06:07 can with that diffuser.
06:09 The attitude is down in the back and up in the front.
06:12 Martin Truex is making it happen.
06:18 >> Kyle Larson for the stage win over teammate Alex bowman, Denny Hamlin, martin Truex, chase
06:26 Elliott and Kyle Busch.
06:28 >> How about this, guys?
06:31 Three wide.
06:32 I'll tell you, the move of the year, Alex bowman.
06:35 He backed out of harm's way.
06:37 He got out of his pits ahead of the 5.
06:40 Denny Hamlin came out.
06:41 They were three wide.
06:43 The bologna and the sandwich was bowman.
06:45 He just got out of there.
06:47 Good for him.
06:48 Hamlin with a jump.
06:49 >> Big jump.
06:50 Big jump by 11, Denny Hamlin.
06:55 >> That number one stall, it's like you were talking about.
06:58 You heard Jamie Mcmurray talk about it.
07:01 That number one stall is keeping Kyle Busch in the game.
07:07 >> Busch in fourth.
07:08 Truex in fifth.
07:09 Did not get a good first lap of this run under green.
07:13 Kind of falls back into the clutches of Blaney and Elliott.
07:18 >> These restarts are so tricky here.
07:22 When you're on the outside or you have something go wrong or somebody slips up and you have
07:25 to check up out of the throttle or you can't put the throttle down, you wind up just getting
07:29 swarmed.
07:34 >> Single file back to reddick in ninth place.
07:36 Then it's double wide.
07:37 >> And Larson was able to close a lot of gap on the 11.
07:47 The leader of Denny Hamlin coming on to pit road.
07:49 Used him as a reference point.
07:51 And passes him.
07:52 Leaving the pit box.
07:53 There it is.
07:54 >> That's exactly what we talked about, Clint.
07:59 Where do you make up these positions?
08:01 It happens on pit road.
08:03 Kyle Larson was able to get by Denny Hamlin.
08:06 >> Back straightaway.
08:07 A lot of smoke back there.
08:10 Ricky stenhouse.
08:11 >> Oh, no.
08:12 >> Freaking four ran over us on the way by.
08:23 >> That sounded to me like spotter tab boyd for stenhouse.
08:28 >> That's a bummer.
08:30 >> Fifth caution flag of the day.
08:32 >> Had such a strong run going.
08:34 The top ten all day long.
08:35 Let's see here.
08:36 Uh-oh.
08:37 He was merging back on.
08:42 >> He looked like he might have come up on the racetrack a little bit too quick.
08:52 >> Self-cleaning banking on the straightaway.
08:54 Sends everything to the inside wall.
08:56 And boy, we're going to have to sort the scoring out.
08:58 Here we were in the midst of green flag pit stops with a lot of cars.
09:02 One lap down.
09:03 >> High scoring showing.
09:04 Hemric still in the lead.
09:05 >> 72 to go.
09:06 >> Kyle Larson, the leader, chose the outside.
09:10 Denny Hamlin inside.
09:12 Truex and Elliott.
09:13 Gregson and Hemric.
09:14 Busch and bowman.
09:15 The first of 20 lead lap cars as they come off four for the green.
09:20 >> Good restart by Denny on that inside.
09:25 That's hard to do.
09:26 You have to time that.
09:27 Look at this, Kevin.
09:28 All but clear.
09:29 I think he's going to clear him off of two.
09:30 >> I think you're right, Clint.
09:31 >> Trouble off turn two.
09:32 >> Big wreck.
09:33 >> Around goes Wallace.
09:34 And one car hard into the inside wall with bowman.
09:35 >> That's Byron.
09:36 That's William Byron, guys.
09:37 Gets worse.
09:38 Bell is torn up again.
09:39 >> I think he's going to be a little bit more aggressive.
09:40 >> I think he's going to be a little bit more aggressive.
09:41 >> I think he's going to be a little bit more aggressive.
09:42 >> I think he's going to be a little bit more aggressive.
09:43 >> I think he's going to be a little bit more aggressive.
09:44 >> I think he's going to be a little bit more aggressive.
10:11 >> We've seen that so many times off of turn two.
10:18 >> See trouble off on that outside.
10:22 Is that bowman.
10:23 Got up into him.
10:24 Got loose.
10:25 >> Byron.
10:26 >> Excuse me, Byron.
10:27 And like you said, you see somebody got in the back of bell and here they come down the
10:34 racetrack.
10:36 >> Somebody left reared bell trying to get down to the apron.
10:39 >> For some reason William Byron was way up the racetrack or Bubba Wallace tried to go
10:43 on the outside of William Byron.
10:44 It's hard to tell how they got to that position.
10:47 >> Look at him starting to stack up.
10:50 Oh, he come right down in front of Byron.
10:53 >> That was not Byron up top.
10:55 >> That's right.
10:56 >> Someone else.
10:57 Another white car.
10:58 Green flag.
10:59 >> A good shot by Larson on the inside.
11:00 That's hard to do.
11:01 He's going to get clear of him.
11:02 >> Chastain has been three wide on every restart.
11:13 Passing cars doing it.
11:14 >> There he goes.
11:15 He's going to lose another spot to truex.
11:17 Look at this.
11:18 Three wide.
11:19 >> Tenth place here.
11:20 >> These boys are going for it now.
11:28 >> The guessing game is I'm going to go in the corner and Larson thinks I'm going to
11:32 go high and stay in the middle and as he fades to the top you try to keep your car in front
11:37 of him.
11:38 We call that an air block.
11:39 >> This is where -- >> He's there.
11:41 >> Two to go.
11:44 >> Got his car rotated off the top of the corner right there.
11:47 >> Made a quick pass.
11:48 John Hunter gave way in his Toyota.
11:52 >> It's a guessing game.
11:53 I don't like that middle of the racetrack.
11:55 >> I was going to say the same thing.
11:57 >> Here he comes.
11:59 One lap to go.
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12:02 >> Clean track ahead.
12:03 Daniel probably go back down to the bottom.
12:04 No, stays high to block.
12:07 Taking that air away from Kyle Larson.
12:09 Did a good job with it there.
12:10 >> Larson is closing.
12:11 Larson got the drive off the corner.
12:14 He's got it down to two car lengths.
12:16 Final corner.
12:18 Larson up high.
12:19 Hamlin right in the middle of the racetrack.
12:21 Blocks the air off Larson's nose and wins the worth 400.
12:27 54th career win for Denny Hamlin.
12:30 Tying Lee Petty for 12th on the all-time list.