2024 Würth 400

The 2024 Würth 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on April 28, 2024, at Dover Motor Speedway in Dover, Delaware. Contested over 400 laps on the 1-mile (1.6 km) concrete speedway, it was the 11th race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season. Denny Hamlin won the race. Kyle Larson finished 2nd, and Martin Truex Jr. finished 3rd. Kyle Busch and Chase Elliott rounded out the top five, and Noah Gragson, Ryan Blaney, Alex Bowman, Daniel Hemric, and Ty Gibbs rounded out the top ten.

Background
Dover Motor Speedway is an oval race track in Dover, Delaware, United States that has held at least two NASCAR races since it opened in 1969. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the NTT IndyCar Series. The track features one layout, a 1 mi concrete oval, with 24° banking in the turns and 9° banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports.

The track, nicknamed "The Monster Mile", was built in 1969 by Melvin Joseph of Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc., with an asphalt surface, but was replaced with concrete in 1995. Six years later in 2001, the track's capacity moved to 135,000 seats, making the track have the largest capacity of sports venue in the mid-Atlantic. In 2002, the name changed to Dover International Speedway from Dover Downs International Speedway after Dover Downs Gaming and Entertainment split, making Dover Motorsports. From 2007 to 2009, the speedway worked on an improvement project called "The Monster Makeover", which expanded facilities at the track and beautified the track. After the 2014 season, the track's capacity was reduced to 95,500 seats.

Entry list

 * (R) denotes rookie driver.
 * (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Practice
Ryan Blaney was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 22.575 seconds and a speed of 159.468 mph.

Qualifying
Kyle Busch scored the pole for the race with a time of 22.196 and a speed of 162.191 mph.

Stage Results
Stage One Laps: 120

Stage Two Laps: 130

Final Stage Results
Stage Three Laps: 150

Race statistics

 * Lead changes: 12 among 9 different drivers
 * Cautions/Laps: 5 for 42 laps
 * Red flags: 0
 * Time of race: 3 hours, 20 minutes and 57 seconds
 * Average speed: 119.433 mph

Television
Fox Sports covered the race on the television side. Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer and three-time Dover winner Kevin Harvick called the race from the broadcast booth. Jamie Little and Regan Smith handled pit road for the television side, and Larry McReynolds provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.

Radio
PRN had the radio call for the race and was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice & Mark Garrow called the race from the broadcast booth when the field raced down the front straightaway. Pat Patterson called the race from atop a scaffold when the field raced thru turns 3 & 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, and Wendy Venturini called the race for PRN from pit lane.

Standings after the race

 * Drivers' Championship standings


 * Manufacturers' Championship standings


 * Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.
 * . – Driver has clinched a position in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.