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2021 Drydene 200

Race details[1][2]
Race 10 of 33 in the2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series season
Dover International Speedway
Date	May 15, 2021 (2021-05-15)
Location	Dover International Speedway inDover, Delaware
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	1.000 miles (1.609 km)
Distance	200 laps, 200.000 mi (321.869 km)
Average speed	94.987 mph
Pole position
Driver	Daniel Hemric	Joe Gibbs Racing
Grid positions set by competition-based formula
Most laps led
Driver	Justin Allgaier	JR Motorsports
Laps	94
Winner
No. 22	Austin Cindric	Team Penske
Television in the United States
Network	FS1
Announcers	Adam Alexander,Kurt Busch, andBrad Keselowski

The2021 Drydene 200 was aNASCAR Xfinity Series race held on May 15, 2021. It was contested over 200 laps on the 1.000-mile (1.609 km)Dover International Speedway concrete oval. It was the tenth race of the2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.Team Penske driverAustin Cindric, collected his third win of the season.

Dover International Speedway is an ovalrace track inDover,Delaware,United States that has held at least twoNASCAR races since it opened in 1969. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hostedUSAC and theNTT IndyCar Series. The track features one layout, a 1 mile (1.6 km) concreteoval, with 24° banking in the turns and 9° banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated byDover 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 afterDover 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.

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

Daniel Hemric was awarded the pole for the race as determined by competition-based formula.^[3]Jordan Anderson,Ronnie Bassett Jr., andAndy Lally did not have enough points to qualify for the race.

Stage OneLaps: 45

Stage TwoLaps: 45

Laps: 110

• Lead changes: 9 among 6 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 7 for 45
• Time of race: 2 hours, 6 minutes, and 20 seconds
• Average speed: 94.987 mph (152.867 km/h)

• NASCAR races at Dover Motor Speedway
• 2021 in sports in Delaware
• May 2021 sports events in the United States
• 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series

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