Sunday 21st September 2003

Ryan Newman made up a two-lap deficit to win the MBNA 400 at Dover International Speedway, Delaware, US. For the race, NASCAR implemented a rule that prohibited racing back to the caution flag, and gave a lap back to drivers who weren’t on the lead lap. The new rule was announced in the wake of drivers narrowly avoiding a collision with Dale Jarrett’s crashed car a week earlier at New Hampshire.