NASCAR Nationwide Series: Dover 200 - Race Results

Mike Bliss (11) battles Scott Speed for position during the Dover 200 at Dover International Speedway. Bliss finished second, Speed finished eighth.
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Mike Bliss (11) battles Scott Speed for position during the Dover 200 at Dover International Speedway. Bliss finished second, Speed finished eighth. Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images


Clint Bowyer didn’t know for sure that he’d be driving Richard Childress Racing’s No. 29 Holiday Inn Chevrolet until this past Monday. Turns out he’s pretty good on short notice. “My name was on the car,” Bowyer said during a post-race press conference. “I just got in it.”

On a day when the 43 drivers were racing an impending storm as well as one another, Bowyer won the “Dover 200” NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the Monster Mile on Saturday afternoon. Mike Bliss, driving the No. 11 Ridemakerz Toyota, finished a surprising second, while Brad Keselowski, in the No. 88 GoDaddy Chevrolet, overcame a pit road speeding penalty to finish third.

For Busch, it was another day at the Monster Mile that started with promise and ended with disappointment, coming after all three May 2009 races ended with bad luck. It seemed almost typical that at the start of the race Busch couldn’t communicate with his crew via radio. Despite that, his jackrabbit start put him ahead by a full second after just six laps. But that early lead wouldn’t last.

“The more the race went on, the looser we got for some reason,” Busch said. “The guys made adjustments in order to tighten it up and I don’t know if it was just the tires or what, but every time we put a set of tires on we just kept getting looser and looser. It’s a problem when you can’t explain exactly what the car is doing.”

Although Busch finished fourth, he actually extended his points lead by ten because Carl Edwards finished fifth. Busch is now up by 211 points. Keselowski remained 297 points back with his third-place finish.


FIN	CAR	DRIVER	MAKE
1	29	Clint Bowyer 	Chevrolet
2	11	Mike Bliss 	Toyota
3	88	Brad Keselowski 	Chevrolet
4	18	Kyle Busch 	Toyota
5	60	Carl Edwards 	Ford
6	38	Jason Leffler 	Toyota
7	10	Reed Sorenson 	Toyota
8	99	Scott Speed 	Toyota
9	32	David Reutimann 	Toyota
10	27	Jason Keller 	Ford
11	16	Matt Kenseth 	Ford
12	66	Steve Wallace 	Chevrolet
13	15	Michael Annett *	Toyota
14	40	Scott Wimmer 	Chevrolet
15	234	Tony Raines 	Chevrolet
16	1	Martin Truex Jr. 	Chevrolet
17	6	Erik Darnell *	Ford
18	9	John Wes Townley *	Ford
19	62	Brendan Gaughan *	Chevrolet
20	28	Kenny Wallace 	Chevrolet
21	89	Morgan Shepherd 	Chevrolet
22	1	Mike Wallace 	Chevrolet
23	23	Ken Butler III *	Chevrolet
24	24	Eric McClure 	Ford
25	12	Justin Allgaier *	Dodge
26	61	Matt Carter 	Ford
27	20	Denny Hamlin 	Toyota
28	81	Bobby Hamilton Jr. 	Dodge
29	196	Michael McDowell *	Dodge
30	33	Ryan Newman 	Chevrolet
31	31	Tim Andrews 	Chevrolet
32	52	Brad Teague 	Chevrolet
33	7	Jarit Johnson 	Chevrolet
34	26	Danny O'Quinn Jr. 	Dodge
35	87	Joe Nemechek 	Chevrolet
36	5	Casey Atwood 	Chevrolet
37	102	Andy Ponstein 	Chevrolet
38	192	Dennis Setzer 	Dodge
39	91	Chase Miller 	Chevrolet
40	90	Johnny Chapman 	Chevrolet
41	47	Coleman Pressley 	Toyota
42	49	Mark Green 	Chevrolet
43	141	Kevin Hamlin 	Chevrolet


 
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