Contested over 400 laps on the 1-mile (1.6 km) concrete speedway, it was the 12th race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.

The race had 19 lead changes among different drivers, and twelve cautions for 65 laps, along with a red-flag period of 11 minutes, 22 seconds.

In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the Verizon IndyCar Series.

Kevin Harvick was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 21.799 and a speed of 165.145 mph (265.775 km/h).

[13] Four minutes into the session, Danica Patrick's engine expired, dumped oil onto the track, spun and caught fire on the frontstretch.

[14] Jamie McMurray and Tony Stewart were caught in the oil and slammed the wall.

"[17] Harvick, speaking on his teammate's wreck on a part of the outside wall not reinforced with SAFER barriers, said that they've been put "in the groove at Darlington and it's two-and-a-half cars wide.

[20] Dale Earnhardt Jr., who started second, said he hoped "we will get some practice tomorrow to get to work on the race set-up a little bit.

"[21] Kyle Busch was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 22.808 and a speed of 157.839 mph (254.017 km/h).

[22] Denny Hamlin was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 22.882 and a speed of 157.329 mph (253.196 km/h).

[23] Under mostly sunny Delaware skies, Kevin Harvick led the field to the green flag at 1:16 p.m. After five laps, he pulled to a one-second lead over Carl Edwards.

Denny Hamlin was tagged for improper fueling and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

Rounding the turn, Regan Smith got loose and made contact with the wall.

Ryan Newman was tagged for an uncontrolled tire and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

Kyle Larson drove underneath Biffle into turn 3 to take the lead on lap 182.

Going into the turn, Austin Dillon suffered a right-front brake rotor failure and slammed the wall.

Our Chevrolet was fast and we had good shot of running top 10, top-five depending on track position.

Jamie McMurray was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

[27] Johnson, Truex, Harvick, McMurray, Newman, A. J. Allmendinger, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Aric Almirola, Hamlin, Biffle, Casey Mears, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Clint Bowyer, Trevor Bayne, Paul Menard and Michael McDowell were all collected in the wreck.

And then I tried fourth and third and eventually I got hit from behind...I thought maybe I missed a shift, but it wouldn't go into gear.

Exiting turn 2, Edwards came down on Larson, got hooked into the inside wall.

Despite a hard-fought battle towards the finish with Larson and Chase Elliott, Kenseth – who assumed the lead after the multi-car wreck with 46 laps to go – drove on to score the victory.

I thought we were competitive and there were a few guys at different parts of the race that were a little bit better and Kyle (Larson) gave me all I wanted at the end, and then some.

"[34] Fox Sports covered their sixteenth race at the Dover International Speedway.

Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the action on pit road for the television side.