Miles the Monster

Dover, Delaware, United States

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Miles the Monster, the Monster Monument at Victory Plaza at Dover Motor Speedway, is a monument the speedway gives as 46 feet high, gripping a full-size NASCAR Cup Series car in its right hand. Dedicated in May 2008, its base carries plaques for the track's race winners.

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At Dover Motor Speedway in Delaware, a monument the speedway gives as 46 feet high looms over Victory Plaza with a full-size NASCAR Cup Series car clamped in its right hand. The speedway, nicknamed the Monster Mile, calls the figure Miles.

According to the speedway, the figure was built over 144 days at ACI Composites in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, arrived at Dover on 25 April 2008 and was dedicated on 14 May 2008, with NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon present. The track gives its weight as 40,000 pounds and describes it as the world's largest fiberglass structure outside a sports stadium. It adds that at 46 feet it stands almost 10 feet taller than Fenway Park's Green Monster. The base is 7 feet high and 60 feet across. Plaques there honour all of Dover's race winners, with marquee plaques for Bobby Allison, Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon and David Pearson.

The car in his hand changes. In April 2024 the speedway fitted one wrapped in the camouflage pattern worn by airmen at Dover Air Force Base, about five miles south of the track. The monument has also been lit in colours for charitable causes and, in September 2023, was draped in a giant "Survivor" Buff for a CBS campaign.

The speedway's 2023 release calls it fiberglass, while a 2025 speedway article calls it a concrete colossus.

The speedway's website says the monument is always open to visitors, who are asked to park off Leipsic Road near the flagpole and historical marker and walk up Victory Plaza's brick pathway. On race weekends the area becomes the Fan Zone.

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Stands on speedway grounds at Victory Plaza. The speedway's website says the Monster Monument is always open to visitors for photos; park off Leipsic Road near the flagpole and historical marker, then walk up the brick pathway. Race weekends are busier.

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At Victory Plaza, Dover Motor Speedway, Dover, Delaware. The speedway says the monument is always open: park off Leipsic Road near the flagpole and historical marker and walk up the brick pathway.

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