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Breaking down the full field for the AAA 400 Drive For Autism at Dover International Speedway:
1. Matt Kenseth, No. 20 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. Kenseth outdueled Kyle Larson to end his hard-luck start to the season and grab his first win of 2016. All four Joe Gibbs Racing drivers now have a victory. Grade: A
2. Kyle Larson, No. 42 Chevrolet, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. Larson did everything short of bumping Kenseth to get his first Sprint Cup victory. Instead he settled for his fourth second-place finish in 87 starts and his fourth top 10 in five starts at Dover. Grade: A
3. Chase Elliott, No. 24 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. Elliott overcame radio communication issues to make a late run at Kenseth before posting his eighth top-10 finish and move up four spots in the Sprint Cup Series driver standings to seventh. Grade: A
4. Kasey Kahne, No. 5 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. Kahne’s second top five in 2016 moved him back into the top 16 in the driver standings. He had three top fives all last season. Grade: A
5. Kurt Busch, No. 41 Chevrolet, Stewart-Haas Racing. A solid day for the No. 41. Busch ran among the leaders all afternoon to ring up his series-high 10th top 10. He also moved up two spots in the driver standings to third. Grade: A
6. Brad Keselowski, No. 2 Ford, Team Penske. Disaster struck when he clipped Austin Dillon while running second on Lap 283. Then un-disaster struck when the No. 2 wasn’t one of the 18 cars caught up in the big wreck. That’s what you call a good day. Grade: B
7. Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. Hamlin was all over the place Sunday, leading 15 laps, racking up another pit-road penalty and at one point finding himself two laps back. And this was before getting collected in the big wreck. It’s where you finish that counts, though. Grade: B
8. Ryan Blaney, No. 21 Ford, Wood Brothers Racing. Blaney avoided mayhem to post a career-best third straight top 10. He also moved up to 15th in the driver standings. Grade: A
9. Martin Truex Jr., No. 78 Toyota, Furniture Row Racing. You’ve heard this before: Truex deserved better. Truex led 47 laps and was a fixture in the top 10. Fate came calling again, though. During the 10th caution, he purposely slowed at the exit of pit road to allow the No. 19 to pass him so his No. 78 could start fourth on the outside of the second row with less than 50 laps to go. Unfortunately that put him right behind Jimmie Johnson, who touched off the big wreck on the restart. Grade: A
10. Trevor Bayne, No. 6 Ford, Roush Fenway Racing. Bayne spent only 46 laps in the top 15 and had an average position of 21.9. But he still netted a top-10 finish, his third of 2016, which is one more than he had all last season. Grade: B
11. Paul Menard, No. 27 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing. Menard was involved in the big wreck, but and in his highest running position. He was one of only two drivers who did not complete at least one lap in the top 10 Sunday (Tony Stewart was the other). Grade: C
12. Clint Bowyer, No. 15 Chevrolet, HScott Motorsports. Bowyer manufactured his third consecutive top-20 finish, his first since he strung together four in races 24-27 last year. Grade: C
13. Danica Patrick, No. 10 Chevrolet, Stewart-Haas Racing. Driving a backup car, Patrick posted her best finish since her last top 10 – a ninth at Bristol more than a year ago. Maybe that’s the formula. Grade: C
14. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 17 Ford, Roush Fenway Racing. Stenhouse is showing consistency: His finishes the past three races are 16th, 13th and 14th (Sunday). Grade: C
15. Kevin Harvick, No. 4 Chevrolet, Stewart-Haas Racing. Harvick led a race-high 117 laps, and who knows how well he would have done if his pit crew had done its job? Harvick’s grade is an average of his A and his crew’s F. Grade: C
16. Ryan Newman, No. 31 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing. Newman overcame a pit-road penalty and survived the big wreck, but he still dropped a spot in the standings to 18th, eight points out of 16th. Grade: C
17. David Ragan, No. 23 Toyota, BK Racing. Ragan posted his best finish since last September at Chicagoland (15th). And with his average running position of 30th, that kicks off a theme for the next four drivers. Grade: B
18. Chris Buescher, No. 34 Ford, Front Row Motorsports. Buescher probably thought his day was toast when he went spinning with a little over 50 laps to go. Instead, he gets the best finish of his Sprint Cup career despite spending most of the day in the back of the field (29.0 average running position). Grade: B
19. Landon Cassill, No. 38 Ford, Front Row Motorsports. Cassill’s average running position was 31.1 and he was 33rd at the halfway point. He also wasn’t caught up in the big wreck. Grade: B
20. Michael McDowell, No. 95 Chevrolet, Circle Sport-Leavine Family Racing. McDowell (30.0 average running position) raced in the neighborhood of David Ragan, Chris Buescher and Landon Cassill and finished in their neighborhood, too, for his best day since finishing 15th at Daytona. Grade: B
21. Jamie McMurray, No. 1 Chevrolet, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. McMurray started his day in a backup car and finished a season-high five laps off the pace. Grade: C
22. Joey Logano, No. 22 Ford, Team Penske. Logano suffered heavy damage in the big wreck and finished the race nine laps back without a hood or any other sheet metal up front. Grade: C
23. AJ Allmendinger, No. 47 Chevrolet, JTG Daugherty Racing. The 18-car pileup cost Allmendinger more than a poor finish; it dropped him outside the top 16 in the driver standings to 17th. Grade: C
24. Brian Scott, No. 44 Ford, Richard Petty Motorsports. His duel with Danica provided in-race entertainment in the first 100 laps. Grade: C
25. Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. When Johnson’s transmission wouldn’t go from second to third gear on the Lap 356 restart with the No. 48 on the outside of the front row, all the highlights of his day – moving up from starting 21st, passing 3,000 laps led at Dover – went out the window faster than it took 17 cars to pile up behind him. Grade: C
26. Casey Mears, No. 13 Chevrolet, Germain Racing. The big wreck triggered by Johnson ruined Mears’ day. Grade: C
27. Cole Whitt, No. 98 Chevrolet, Premium Motorsports. Despite his third DNF of the season, Whitt posted his third-best finish of the season. Grade: C
28. Carl Edwards, No. 19 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. Just a handful of laps after avoiding the big wreck, Edwards was running third with 39 laps to go when a tap from behind from Kyle Larson sent the No. 19 hard into the inside wall nose first. Grade: B
29. Greg Biffle, No. 16 Ford, Roush Fenway Racing. Biffle stayed out during the fourth caution and led six laps – the first laps he has led this season. The big wreck left him with his third DNF of the season, the same number he had in the previous five seasons combined. Grade: B-
30. Kyle Busch, No. 18 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. The handling was not good on the No. 18, and the big wreck took care of the rest of Busch’s car. Grade: D
31. Aric Almirola, No. 43 Ford, Richard Petty Motorsports. After making up the two laps he lost following purposeful contact from Tony Stewart on Lap 129, Almirola took a hard hit in the big wreck that left him with a potentially broken finger. In other words, not a good day. Grade: D
32. Dale Earnhardt Jr., No. 88 Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports. Junior suffered his third DNF of the season and second in three races when the No. 88 was knocked out in the big wreck. Grade: C
33. Austin Dillon, No. 3 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing. A day to forget. Dillon brought out the fifth caution when a rotor broke on Lap 184 and he hit the wall. His team fixed the rotor, and he turned to the race only to be hit by Brad Keselowski on Lap 283. Grade: C
34. Tony Stewart, No. 14 Chevrolet, Stewart-Haas Racing. The No. 14 was not competitive (15th was its high point), and with 57 laps to go, the track bar on the No. 14 broke and punctured the oil tank. End of race. Grade: F
35. Jeffrey Earnhardt, No. 32 Ford, Go Fas Racing. Earnhardt was running at the finish – but a career-high 66 laps back. Grade: D
36. Josh Wise, No. 30 Chevrolet, The Motorsports Group. Lost a cylinder early but was running at the finish. Grade: F
37. Michael Annett, No. 46 Chevrolet, HScott Motorsports. Contact from Jamie McMurray sent Annett smashing into the inside wall on Lap 227, ending his day. Grade: D
38. Reed Sorenson, No. 55 Chevrolet, Premium Motorsports. Sorenson’s day ended with a spin on Lap 214. Grade: F
39. Regan Smith, No. 7 Chevrolet, Tommy Baldwin Racing. Smith posted his worst finish of the season after going for a spin and hitting the wall on Lap 144. Grade: F
40. Matt DiBenedetto, No. 83 Toyota, BK Racing. The Monster’s outside wall devoured its first victim when the No. 83’s right front tire went on Lap 120. Grade: F