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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]
Henry Clay Earles (August 11, 1913 – November 16, 1999) was the founder and chairman of the board of Martinsville Speedway, a NASCAR stock car racing track that Earles built in 1947 in Ridgeway, Virginia, that was one of the circuit's first paved oval tracks and stands as one of its shortest.
International Speedway Corporation (ISC) was a corporation whose primary business was the ownership and management of motorsports race tracks.ISC was founded by NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. in 1953 for the construction of Daytona International Speedway and in 1999 it merged with Penske Motorsports to become one of the largest motorsports companies in North America.
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The Petty racing family made Martinsville its home track and Richard Petty won 15 of his record 200 career victories on the Virginia speedway.
The first win for the team came at Motor Mile Speedway in Radford, VA, in 2004. (At the time, Earnhardt Jr. was co-owner of another racing venture, Chance 2 Motorsports .) JR Motorsports in its current form, competing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series started in 2006 when sponsorship from the United States Navy funded the team.
Denny Hamlin shared his thoughts on the end of Sunday's Xfinity 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway.. Hamlin, on his weekly podcast "Actions Detrimental," acknowledged a potential ...
Blaney in the No. 12 at Martinsville Speedway in 2022 Blaney started the 2022 season with a fourth-place finish at the 2022 Daytona 500 . Despite scoring no wins in the first 13 races, he stayed consistent with four top-fives and six top-10 finishes.