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Martinsville Speedway is a stock car racing short track in Ridgeway, Virginia, just south of Martinsville. The track was also one of the first paved oval tracks in stock car racing, being built in 1947 by partners H. Clay Earles, Henry Lawrence, and Sam Rice, nearly a year before NASCAR was officially formed. [2] It is also the only race track ...
The Cook Out 400 is an annual NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held at the 0.526-mile (0.847 km) Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia.It is the first of two Cup Series races at the track, the other one being the Xfinity 500 in the NASCAR playoffs.
Recent NASCAR Cup Series winners at Martinsville. 2023 fall race: Ryan Blaney. 2023 spring race: Kyle Larson. 2022 fall race: Christopher Bell. 2022 spring race: William Byron. 2021 fall race ...
The 2022 Xfinity 500 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on October 30, 2022, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia.Contested over 500 laps on the .526 mile (.847 km) short track, it was the 35th race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, the ninth race of the Playoffs, and final race of the Round of 8.
Last year Blaney won at the half-mile short track a week before winning the first Cup Series title of his career. Blaney won again at Martinsville on Sunday to clinch a spot in the Championship 4.
The 2013 STP Gas Booster 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on April 7, 2013, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia, United States.Contested over 500 laps on the 0.526-mile (0.847 km) oval, it was the sixth race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series championship.
The 200-lap 105.2 miles (169.3 km) race is currently known as Long John Silver's 200 for sponsorship reasons. In 2020, as part of schedule realignment, the fall race became the only Truck Series race at the track as NASCAR decided to give the track one Xfinity Series race instead.
The 2020 race was held at night and became the Truck Series' only annual visit to Martinsville. [3] [4] That year and in 2019, the NASCAR Hall of Fame was the title sponsor. [5] United Rentals became the title sponsor of the fall Truck Series race at Martinsville in 2021, [6] which was the last year the Truck Series held a race in the fall at ...