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Dover

2019 NASCAR Cup Dover

United States
May 3, 2019 to May 5, 2019
Dover International Speedway, US
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NASCAR Cup Dover

Live: Monday's Dover NASCAR Cup race

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Logano gets a great restart, with Keselowski pushing him clear out front.
Green flag
Back green with ten laps to go in the first stage.
Elliott was the first of the four-tire takers, and will restart third. Not long now until the end of stage one, can Logano and Byron hold on out front?
Free pass: Denny Hamlin.
Pit stop
Logano leads the race of pit road from fellow two-tire taker Byron, Elliott, Keselowski and Larson.
Crash
Flat right front tire for Stenhouse sent him up into the wall ... tough break for the RFR driver.
Yellow flag
CAUTION #2 - Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in the wall.
Kyle Busch passes Johnson for 11th.
Hamlin goes a lap down. His car appears the opposite, handling-wise, to teammate Truex.
Stopwatch
Larson continues to keep Elliott on his toes out front, the gap is still under a second between the leaders.
Truex passes Blaney too. Up to eighth now is MTJ.
Blaney passes Byron for seventh.
Logano and Harvick going at it for third.
Lapped traffic is causing the leaders some serious problems with this high-downforce package it seems.
Larson actually passed Elliott – for about half a second! Elliott is back in front now.
Very close battle for the lead now.
Wow, Larson gets a run on Elliott in traffic!
Larson briefly had the lead gap to under a second, but traffic was to blame.
Truex passes Johnson for 10th – not bad from the back of the grid. He is also top Toyota.
Elliott in traffic already. Gap is stable up front, Logano has fallen away from Larson.
Stewart-Haas teammates Suarez and Almirola duelling hard for 15th.
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Logano vs. Larson on the restart.
 
Elliott has checked out at the front to the tune of 1.5s. Comfortable.
A lot of adjustments on Hamlin's car, he's restarted 22nd.
Almirola was a big loser in that round of pitstops, he's outside the top 10 now.
Bowyer passes Blaney for sixth.
Elliott out front, Larson up to second. Logano holding off Harvick.
Green flag
Big moment for Logano at the restart and Larson nails him.
Big advantage for Elliott with that #1 pitstall. He beat Logano out by a fair margin.
Pit stop
Elliott leads them out, ahead of Logano, Larson, Harvick, Keselowski and Blaney. Good stops from the Penske duo there, they both gained places.
Pit stop
Elliott leads them in...
Stenhouse just crept his way into the top 10, passing Jones.
Stopwatch
The top five is Elliott, Logano, Larson, Harvick and Byron. Here come the pitstops!
Yellow flag
CAUTION #1 - Competition yellow after Lap 40 of 400.
Larson has reported his car is really loose, but he's hanging on to it in style, running third.
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William Byron not happy with slower traffic... 
 
Hamlin is now 21st, this has been a nightmare first stint for our Daytona 500 winner.
Logano is now under a second behind.
Bubba Wallace is racing leader Elliott hard to stay on the lead lap.

By: Charles Bradley, Nick DeGroot, Tim Southers

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