Speed’s coverage of Dover Truck race up 5 percent

Speed says its coverage of Saturday’s AAA Insurance 200 at Dover International Speedway earned a 0.86 Nielsen household rating, a 5 percent increase over the 0.82 the 2008 race earned.

This year’s race, which was run on Saturday after being rained out on Friday, averaged 626,000 households, up from 597,000 last year.