Jimmie Johnson scores 10th win at Dover

Jimmie Johnson has again proved the master of Dover, scoring a historic 10th career win and his third in the past four starts at the ‘Monster Mile’.

The victory is the 74th of Johnson’s career and his fourth of the season, adding to an impressive Dover strike rate that has netted 10 wins from 27 starts.

His victory this time around came despite a gamble to stay out on used tyres, while others took either two or four fresh Goodyears with a restart with 18 laps still to run.

Restarting alongside Kevin Harvick (who was on the same strategy), Johnson got his car out front and let the others battle behind while he kept things clean at the front.

Even a green-white-chequered finish didn’t matter, as the strategy of keeping track position was again the key as others behind were kept busy fighting each other.

Harvick finished second while Kyle Larson, Kasey Kahne and Aric Almirola completed the top five.

Martin Truex Jr. led the most laps, but his choice of two tyres instead of four ultimately hurt as he slipped from third place on the final re-start.

The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyotas which looked strong in practice and qualifying had poor races.

Pole-sitter Denny Hamlin and team-mate Kyle Busch were both involved in separate crashes while battling for top five positions.

A strong early run for Matt Kenseth was ruined with a suspected shock absorber failure, while last week’s winner Carl Edwards got a pit road violation and lost the lead lap.

VIDEO:Race Highlights

RESULTS: FEDEX 400 Benefitting Autism Spead – Dover International Speedway 

POS.	CAR #	DRIVER	MANUFACTURER	STARTING POS.	LAPS	LAPS LED	FINAL STATUS	POINTS	BONUS POINTS
1	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	14	405	23	Running	47	4
2	4	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet	6	405	91	Running	43	1
3	42	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	3	405	0	Running	41	0
4	5	Kasey Kahne	Chevrolet	25	405	0	Running	40	0
5	43	Aric Almirola	Ford	23	405	0	Running	39	0
6	78	Martin Truex Jr	Chevrolet	2	405	131	Running	40	2
7	1	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet	11	405	0	Running	37	0
8	27	Paul Menard	Chevrolet	18	405	0	Running	36	0
9	15	Clint Bowyer	Toyota	20	405	1	Running	36	1
10	24	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet	22	405	0	Running	34	0
11	22	Joey Logano	Ford	5	405	0	Running	33	0
12	2	Brad Keselowski	Ford	19	404	28	Running	33	1
13	55	David Ragan	Toyota	15	404	0	Running	31	0
14	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr	Chevrolet	16	403	3	Running	31	1
15	10	Danica Patrick	Chevrolet	33	403	0	Running	29	0
16	14	Tony Stewart	Chevrolet	26	403	0	Running	28	0
17	16	Greg Biffle	Ford	7	403	0	Running	27	0
18	31	Ryan Newman	Chevrolet	17	402	0	Running	26	0
19	19	Carl Edwards	Toyota	8	402	3	Running	26	1
20	7	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	30	402	0	Running	24	0
21	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	1	402	118	Running	24	1
22	9	Sam Hornish Jr	Ford	28	400	0	Running	22	0
23	40	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	43	400	0	Running	0	0
24	47	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	29	400	0	Running	20	0
25	38	David Gilliland	Ford	32	399	0	Running	19	0
26	35	Cole Whitt	Ford	37	399	0	Running	18	0
27	13	Casey Mears	Chevrolet	21	399	0	Running	17	0
28	34	Brett Moffitt	Ford	38	398	0	Running	16	0
29	23	J.J. Yeley	Toyota	40	397	0	Running	0	0
30	26	Jeb Burton	Toyota	35	396	0	Running	14	0
31	41	Kurt Busch	Chevrolet	13	396	0	Running	13	0
32	83	Matt DiBenedetto	Toyota	36	395	0	Running	12	0
33	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	12	395	0	Running	11	0
34	62	Brendan Gaughan	Chevrolet	41	392	0	Running	0	0
35	32	Mike Bliss	Ford	42	391	0	Running	0	0
36	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	10	374	7	Accident	9	1
37	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Ford	9	373	0	Running	7	0
38	33	Brian Scott	Chevrolet	27	372	0	Accident	0	0
39	20	Matt Kenseth	Toyota	4	346	0	Suspension	5	0
40	98	Josh Wise	Ford	39	346	0	Electrical	4	0
41	46	Michael Annett	Chevrolet	34	317	0	Running	3	0
42	51	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	24	310	0	Running	2	0
43	6	Trevor Bayne	Ford	31	221	0	Running	1	0