He struggled throughout the first half of the season, but captured his first series pole at Nashville Superspeedway, a concrete oval, in July.
Dover is a one-mile, high-banked concrete oval where wrecks can, and do, happen frequently.
Contested over 500 laps on the 0.533 mile (0.858 km) concrete oval, it was the fourth race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series championship.
The stadium formed a massive concrete oval, 670 feet (204 m) long and 475 feet (145 m) wide.
In 1922 Frick Amangue founded Autodromo Nacional, S.A to oversee the construction of a new concrete oval for auto and motorcycle racing.
The track was a .75-mile-long concrete paved oval with 14 banked turns.
Patrick is 10th in the Indy Racing League standings entering the race at Nashville Superspeedway, a 1.33-mile concrete oval.
It was a long, hot afternoon at the speedway, a high-banked concrete oval that is nicknamed The Monster Mile.
Today, over the 333.3-meter concrete oval at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome, the new Erin Hartwell took a big step back.
Mullaly skate rink is a smooth concrete oval in the corner of Mullaly Park, a run-down patch of green flowing north from Yankee Stadium.