Joe Gibbs Racing star Denny Hamlin joins a group of NASCAR drivers that likes the idea of moving the sport’s All-Star race to different venues and keeping the rules fresh and exciting.
Sunday’s All-Star Race at the Dover Motor Speedway one-mile, high-banked concrete oval will be a first for the track and drivers seem open and eager to the new challenges this venue and format will produce.
This is the fifth different venue in the past seven years. And there have been only two repeat winners – Team Penske’s Joey Logano and Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson – in that time, proving what a competitive event the non-points race tends to be.
“It’s going to be a different challenge and certainly feel like there’s a lot of excitement around it,” said Hamlin, driver of the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and the 2015 All-Star winner at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
“I don’t think we’ve ever done any kind of invert or anything before. This is going to be different, and anytime you can adapt to something quicker than the next, there’s a sense of satisfaction there, but for us personally, it’s – can we get a grasp on kind of the new aerodynamic package, at tracks where we have went from one to the other this year, we haven’t been our best, I feel like.
“We think we’ve made some adjustments for that, and hopefully, we’ll learn something from those first two events at Darlington and Bristol, and we’re going to apply what we know here, and hopefully it’ll work.”
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