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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 ]
Kyle Busch won the last Truck Series spring race at Martinsville before the race was removed from the schedule in 2020. When the Truck Series had a spring race at Martinsville again in 2022 as a result of the fall race being moved to the spring, the race length was 200 laps instead of 250 like the previous Truck Series spring races at Martinsville.
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 the track. In 2022, the fall Truck Series race at Martinsville was moved to the spring and there was no fall Truck Series race at the track for the first time since 2002.
The National Debt Relief 250 is a NASCAR Xfinity Series stock car race held at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia. Originally a Late Model race when it began in 1970, it joined the Budweiser Late Model Sportsman touring series in 1982 (the original year), and remained a part of the series through 1994.
Since Martinsville Speedway is a short track, drivers will be split into two groups, Group A and B, with both sessions being 15 minutes long. Ty Majeski , driving for ThorSport Racing , would set the fastest time between both sessions, with a lap of 19.985, and a speed of 94.751 mph (152.487 km/h).
Martinsville Speedway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races. [3] The standard track at Martinsville Speedway is a four-turn short track oval that is 0.526 miles (0.847 km) long. [ 4 ] The track's turns are banked at eleven degrees , while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at zero degrees.
The 2023 NOCO 400 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on April 16, 2023, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia.Contested over 400 laps on the 0.526 mile (0.847 km) paperclip-shaped short track; it was the ninth race of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season.
Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Henry County, in Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville. At 0.526 miles (0.847 km) in length, it is the shortest track in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series .