@nascarcasm: Things you may not know about Dover

It’s time to teach you a few tidbits about the legendary Dover International Raceway that you might not know.

In July of 1969, Richard Petty won the very first race at Dover. And I’m guessing in August of 1969, the second-place car finally finished.

If you’ve completed 35 laps at Dover, you’ve driven the length of Delaware at its widest point. The state itself could probably fit inside Talladega Superspeedway.

Dover is Jimmie Johnson’s winningest track. Over his soon-to-be Hall-of-Fame career, "Seven-Time" won an astounding 11 Cup Series races there. It’s also where he earned his final career victory in 2017. Miles the Monster may scare some people, but not Johnson. Miles probably cleans Johnson’s pool for free.

He was an English nobleman, and if you wish to learn more about him, I suggest you look him up on Wikipedia. Just know, his last name is not what it sounds like when Ward Burton tried to say “Delaware.”

It was actually asphalt until 1995, when the track was resurfaced with concrete. Just as well. I can’t imagine referring to Carl Edwards as “Asphalt Carl” all those years.

It was way back in 2007, before he went through the “Bad-Luck Martin” stage of his career, which then led to the “Oh Wow, Martin Truex Jr. Won Again – HERE’S MY SHOCKED FACE” stage of his career. I guess from a geographic standpoint, it’s the home-trackiest home track of all his home tracks.

When you only have three, why not just whittle it down to one? Seriously.

Someone with better math skills can figure out his exact BMI, but those are the bodily dimensions of the massive foam and fiberglass statue that sits ominously outside of Turn 4 that looks as if it’s about to Gronk-spike a race car.