- AAA 400
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AAA 400 Venue Dover International Speedway Sponsor AAA First race 1971 Distance 400 miles (643.737 km) Laps 400 Previous names Delaware 500 (1971-1978, 1984-1988)
CRC Chemicals 500 (1979-1982)
Budweiser 500 (1983)
Peak Performance 500 (1989)
Peak AntiFreeze 500 (1990-1992)
SplitFire Spark Plug 500 (1993-1994)
MBNA 500 (1995-1996)
MBNA 400 (1997)
MBNA Gold 400 (1998-1999)
MBNA.com 400 (2000)
MBNA Cal Ripken, Jr. 400 (2001)
MBNA All-American Heroes 400 (2002)
MBNA America 400 (2003-2004)
MBNA NASCAR RacePoints 400 (2005)
Dover 400 (2006)
Dodge Dealers 400 (2007)
Camping World RV 400 (2008)Not be confused with the AAA Texas 500, another AAA-sponsored NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, but it takes place at Texas Motor Speedway.
The AAA 400 is the second of two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car races held at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware. It is now held on the first weekend of October. It is the 3rd race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup thanks to Realignment 2011.
Contents
Past winners
Year Date Driver Car Make Winner's Prize
(US$)Distance
Laps/Miles(Km)Average Speed
(mph)Race Time Delaware 500 1971 October 17 Richard Petty Plymouth $14,570 500 / 500 (804.672) 123.254 4:03:25 1972 September 17 David Pearson Mercury $13,250 500 / 500 (804.672) 120.506 4:08:57 1973 September 16 David Pearson Mercury $16,325 500 / 500 (804.672) 112.852 4:25:50 1974 September 15 Richard Petty Dodge $18,175 500 / 500 (804.672) 113.64 4:23:59 1975 September 14 Richard Petty Dodge $18,250 500 / 500 (804.672) 111.372 4:29:22 1976 September 19 Cale Yarborough Chevrolet $18,075 500 / 500 (804.672) 115.74 4:19:12 1977 September 18 Benny Parsons Chevrolet $15,675 500 / 500 (804.672) 114.708 4:21:32 1978 September 17 Bobby Allison Ford $19,500 500 / 500 (804.672) 119.323 4:11:20 CRC Chemicals 500 1979 September 16 Richard Petty Chevrolet $21,650 500 / 500 (804.672) 114.366 4:22:19 1980 September 14 Darrell Waltrip Chevrolet $22,900 500 / 500 (804.672) 116.024 4:18:34 1981 September 20 Neil Bonnett Ford $19,000 500 / 500 (804.672) 119.561 4:10:00 1982 September 19 Darrell Waltrip Buick $29,600 500 / 500 (804.672) 107.642 4:38:43 Budweiser 500 1983 September 18 Bobby Allison Buick $30,985 500 / 500 (804.672) 116.077 4:18:45 Delaware 500 1984 September 16 Harry Gant Chevrolet $40,005 500 / 500 (804.672) 111.856 4:28:12 1985 September 15 Harry Gant Chevrolet $44,950 500 / 500 (804.672) 120.538 4:08:52 1986 September 14 Ricky Rudd Ford $51,500 500 / 500 (804.672) 114.329 4:22:24 1987 September 20 Ricky Rudd Ford $54,550 500 / 500 (804.672) 124.706 4:00:34 1988 September 18 Bill Elliott Ford $56,400 500 / 500 (804.672) 109.349 4:34:21 Peak Performance 500 1989 September 17 Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet $59,950 500 / 500 (804.672) 122.909 4:04:05 Peak AntiFreeze 500 1990 September 16 Bill Elliott Ford $83,100 500 / 500 (804.672) 125.945 3:58:00 1991 September 15 Harry Gant Oldsmobile $67,100 500 / 500 (804.672) 110.179 4:32:17 1992 September 20 Ricky Rudd Chevrolet $64,965 500 / 500 (804.672) 115.289 4:20:13 SplitFire Spark Plug 500 1993 September 19 Rusty Wallace Pontiac $77,645 500 / 500 (804.672) 100.334 4:59:00 1994 September 18 Rusty Wallace Ford $55,055 500 / 500 (804.672) 112.556 4:26:32 MBNA 500 1995 September 17 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet $74,655 500 / 500 (804.672) 124.74 4:00:30 1996 September 15 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet $153,630 500 / 500 (804.672) 105.646 4:43:58 MBNA 400 1997 September 21 Mark Martin Ford $195,305 400 / 400 (643.737) 132.719 3:00:50 MBNA Gold 400 1998 September 20 Mark Martin Ford $126,130 400 / 400 (643.737) 113.834 3:30:50 1999 September 26 Mark Martin Ford $115,710 400 / 400 (643.737) 127.434 3:08:20 MBNA.com 400 2000 September 24 Tony Stewart Pontiac $158,535 400 / 400 (643.737) 115.191 3:28:21 MBNA Cal Ripken, Jr. 400 2001 September 23 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet $168,858 400 / 400 (643.737) 101.559 3:56:19 MBNA All-American Heros 400 2002 September 22 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet $152,735 400 / 400 (643.737) 120.805 3:18:40 MBNA America 400 2003 September 21 Ryan Newman Dodge $160,460 400 / 400 (643.737) 108.802 3:40:35 2004 September 26 Ryan Newman Dodge $195,477 400 / 400 (643.737) 119.067 3:21:34 MBNA NASCAR RacePoints 400 2005 September 25 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet $296,641 404 / 404 (650.174) 115.054 3:30:41 Dover 400 2006 September 24 Jeff Burton Chevrolet $230,370 400 / 400 (643.737) 111.966 3:34:21 Dodge Dealers 400 2007 September 23 Carl Edwards Ford $229,250 400 / 400 (643.737) 101.846 3:55:39 Camping World RV 400 2008 September 21 Greg Biffle Ford $218,450 400 / 400 (643.737) 114.168 3:30:13 AAA 400 2009 September 27 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet $276,076 400 / 400 (643.737) 118.704 3:22:11 2010 September 26 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet $262,803 400 / 400 (643.737) 131.543 3:02:27 2011 October 2 Kurt Busch Dodge $223,625 400 / 400 (643.737) 119.413 3:30:59 - 2005: Race extended due to a Green-white-checker finish.
Notable Races
- 1971: Bobby Allison dominated the race until a lug bolt broke on a pit stop, putting Richard Petty into the lead in the final 100 laps en route to the win.
- 1975: Richard Petty put the entire field two laps down until at Lap 350 he ran over debris from a backmarker's blown engine that broke a tie rod. Petty spent eight laps in the pits getting a new tie rod and came out six laps down. While Lennie Pond blew his engine Petty erased all six laps, but needed a late yellow when Buddy Arrington stopped on the track with fifteen to go. Petty breezed to the win, leaving runner-up Dick Brooks angry at Arrington, who'd recently purchased a transporter from Petty Enterprises: "I guess Arrington needed that truck paid for."
- 1976: Cale Yarborough lost two laps on two separate occasions and made them up en route to the win.
- 1977: Benny Parsons dominated the race after Lap 250.
- 1978: Bobby Allison won after a recent visit to the Mayo Clinic for a checkup.
- 1979: Richard Petty, Donnie Allison, and Cale Yarborough battled over the final 30 laps; Petty edged Allison by a hood at the stripe.
- 1983: Bobby Allison edged Geoff Bodine for the win, his sixth of the season en route to his only Winston Cup title.
- 1986: Ricky Rudd took his first Dover win as title contenders Dale Earnhardt and Tim Richmond crashed and raced each other with damaged race cars despite being multiple laps down.
- 1991: Multiple crashes put Harry Gant alone on the lead lap for his third straight win of September 1991.
- 1992: Ricky Rudd edged Bill Elliott as Alan Kulwicki crashed, putting him seemingly out of the season point chase.
- 1993: Tire failures and crashes, including a multi-car melee detonated when Rusty Wallace hammered another car into the path of the leaders, plagued the 1993 500 won by Wallace.
- 1995: In a race with only five yellows Jeff Gordon and Bobby Hamilton dominated en route to a 1-2 finish.
- 1996: Gordon and Dale Earnhardt battled amid an epidemic of crashes. Ernie Irvan crashed ahead of Derrike Cope and crew chief Larry McReynolds attacked Cope in the garage area. A three-car melee led to a near-brawl on the track between Jimmy Spencer and Wally Dallenbach, Jr. Following this race NASCAR raised the sanction fee for a 500-mile race, forcing Dover to cut back to 400 miles.
- 2001: In the first NASCAR sactioned Cup race following the September 11, 2001 attacks, (the previous race scheduled for New Hampshire Speedway was postponed until the end of the season) a silent lap 3, which was a season-long scheduled event in memory of Dale Earnhardt who had died in a crash in the 2001 Daytona 500, was changed to include the memory of the victims of the attacks. Dale Earnhardt Jr won the race and celebrated by doing a Polish victory lap while holding an American flag in salute.
- 2006: Jeff Burton broke a 185 race winless streak passing Matt Kenseth with 8 laps to go. This was a very emotional win for Jeff.
- 2009: Joey Logano flipped 8 times in turn 3 after being tapped by Tony Stewart, Though a couple cars ahead of Logano had braked going into the corner. Joey was OK after the wreck.
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