2002 MBNA All-American Heroes 400

The 2002 MBNA All-American Heroes 400 was an NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on September 22, 2002, at Dover International Speedway, in Dover, Delaware. Contested over 400 laps on the 1-mile (1.6 km) concrete speedway, it was the 28th race of the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports won the race.

2002 MBNA All-American Heroes 400

Race details
Race 28 of 36 in the 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season
Date	September 22, 2002 (2002-September-22)
Official name	MBNA All-American Heroes 400
Location	Dover International Speedway, Dover, Delaware
Course	Permanent racing facility 1.000 mi (1.609 km)
Distance	400 laps, 400 mi (643.737 km)
Average speed	120.805 miles per hour (194.417 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Rusty Wallace	Penske Racing
Most laps led
Driver	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Laps	170
Winner
No. 48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network	TNT
Announcers	Allen Bestwick Benny Parsons Wally Dallenbach Jr.

Background

Dover International Speedway (formerly Dover Downs International Speedway) is a race track in Dover, Delaware, United States. Since opening in 1969, it has held at least two NASCAR races per year. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the IndyCar Series. The track features one layout, a 1 mile (1.6 km) concrete oval, with 24° banking in the turns and 9° banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated by Dover 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 after Dover 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.

Top 10 results

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
2	6	Mark Martin	Roush Racing	Ford
3	88	Dale Jarrett	Robert Yates Racing	Ford
4	17	Matt Kenseth	Roush Racing	Ford
5	20	Tony Stewart	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac
6	99	Jeff Burton	Roush Racing	Ford
7	97	Kurt Busch	Roush Racing	Ford
8	12	Ryan Newman	Penske Racing	Ford
9	32	Ricky Craven	PPI Motorsports	Ford
10	10	Johnny Benson Jr.	MB2 Motorsports	Pontiac

Race statistics

• Time of race: 3:18:40
• Average Speed: 120.805 miles per hour (194.417 km/h)
• Pole Speed: 156.822 miles per hour (252.381 km/h)
• Cautions: 6 for 37 laps
• Margin of Victory: 0.535 sec
• Lead changes: 15
• Percent of race run under caution: 9.2%
• Average green flag run: 51.9 laps

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