Martinsville Speedway

Location	Martinsville, Virginia
Track length	0.526 miles (0.847 kilometres)
Track shape	Oval
Banking	Turns 12° Straights - 0°
Major events	NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, NASCAR Busch Series, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Whelen Modified Tour
Capacity	65,000
Address	340 Speedway Road, Martinsville, Virginia, 24112
Owner	International Speedway Corporation

Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Martinsville, Virginia. At 0.526 miles in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. The track was also one of the first paved "superspeedways" in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. The track is often referred to as paper clip-shaped and is banked only 12° in the turns. The combination of long straightaways and flat, narrow turns makes hard braking going into turns and smooth acceleration exiting turns a must. Martinsville is an independent city located within the confines of Henry County, Virginia. ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 175 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Martinsville Speedway ... A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ... km redirects here. ... The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series is NASCARs top racing series. ... NASCAR Busch Series logo The Busch Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR. It is NASCARs second division (often compared to Triple-A baseball), and is a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organizations top level, the Nextel... The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is a popular NASCAR racing series that features modified pickup trucks. ... International Speedway Corporation (NYSE: ISCA) is a corporation whose primary business is the ownership and management of NASCAR race tracks. ... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ... Martinsville is an independent city located within the confines of Henry County, Virginia. ... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ... The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series is NASCARs top racing series. ... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...

The track ownership was a joint venture of brothers Jim and Bill France, Jr., and H. Clay Earles, the majority owner, along with daughters Dorothy Campbell and Mary Weatherford, and Dorothy Campbell's children, Sarah Fain and Clay Campbell.

Winners of Martinsville's Nextel Cup and Whelen Modified Tour events receive a longcase clock as a trophy instead of a regular trophy, a tip of the cap to the fame of the Martinsville furniture industry. One of the neat things one can see while watching a NASCAR race is a Norfolk Southern train running along the tracks outside the speedway, although the tracks were recently moved back 100 feet. (The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour was previously named NASCAR Winston Modified Tour and NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series) The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour (WMT) is a stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR in the Modified division. ... A longcase clock with a pine case, c. ... Norfolk Southern Corporation (AAR reporting mark NS) NYSE: NSC is a US publicly-traded stock corporation based in Norfolk, Virginia. ...

The track was sold for $192 million in 2004 as a result of an estate sale following the death of Weatherford exclusively to the France family. The track hosts two Nextel Cup races, currently the Goody's 500 in April and the Subway 500 (round six of the Chase) in October, along with Craftsman Truck, Whelen Modified, and Late Model Stock Car races. The track had plans to add an additional 20,000 seats along the backstretch, boosting capacity to over 85,000 seats, but nothing more has been officially mentioned regarding this by track management since the sale of the track to ISC.

From 1982 until 1994, and again in a one-off in 2006, the Busch Series raced, first in 200 and 150 lap features (200 laps for the two races with the Modifieds, 150 laps with the September Cup race), then 300 laps from 1992 until 1994 as part of a Late Model / Busch Series doubleheader, and 250 laps in the one-off in 2006. A race on the Busch Series schedule in 2006 is off. The date will be replaced by Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. NASCAR Busch Series logo The Busch Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR. It is NASCARs second division (often compared to Triple-A baseball), and is a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organizations top level, the Nextel... The Gilles Villeneuve Circuit is the venue for the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix and, as of 2007, a NASCAR Busch Series race. ... Nickname: City of Mary (Ville-Marie) Motto: Concordia Salus (salvation through harmony) Coordinates: Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1] [2] [3]  - City 365. ...

Current Events

• NASCAR Nextel Cup - Goody's Cool Orange 500
• NASCAR Nextel Cup - Subway 500
• NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series - Kroger 250
• NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series - Kroger 200
• NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and Whelen Southern Modified Tour Combination Race -- Whelen Made in America 300 (1 50-lap last chance race, 250-lap feature)

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Records

• NASCAR Nextel Cup Qualifying: Tony Stewart, 19.306 sec. (98.084 mph), 2005
• NASCAR Nextel Cup Race: Jeff Gordon, 3 hrs. 11 min. 54 sec. (82.223 mph), 1996
• NASCAR Busch Series Qualifying: Clint Bowyer, 19.735 sec. (95.951 mph), 2006
• NASCAR Busch Series Race: Harry Gant, 1 hr. 20 min. 16 sec. (78.637 mph), 1991 (200 laps)
• NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Qualifying: Rick Crawford, 19.732 sec. (95.966 mph), 2005
• NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Race: Rich Bickle, 1 hr. 47 min. 18 sec. (75.296 mph), 1997
• NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Qualifying: Greg Sacks, 18.746 sec. (101.014 mph), 1986.
• NASCAR Combined Modified Race: Ted Christopher, 55.773 mph, 2005 (combination races only with 250-lap format)

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Past races

AAA Championship Car history

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• 1952 Tex Keene
• 1953 Wayne Alspaugh

Notable Races

• After a crashing in the Martinsville fall race in 2001, Kevin LePage said "racing at Martinsville is not an anger managment seminar, in fact it would do you good attend one of those before a race".
• In the 2001 Old Dominion 500, Bobby Hamilton had the race well in hand until the closing laps. Rookie Kevin Harvick spun Hamilton and he dropped to 13th in the runnning order and Harvick was penalized a lap for rough driving. After the race Hamilton said "He(Harvick) may be driving Dale Earnhardt's car but he isn't Dale Earnhardt, right now he wouldn't be a scab on Earnhardt's butt".
• Harry Gant won the 1991 Goody's 500 after being spun out and even though Gant's car was damaged, he was able to overtake the field to win and this started a three race winning streak for Gant.
• The winner of the Subway 500 receives a special grandfather clock as a trophy for winning the race.
• Junior Johnson won nine races as a teamowner at Martinsville with Darrell Waltrip(7 times) and Geoff Bodine(2 times).
• Martinsville was the site of Rick Hendrick's first NASCAR Winston(Nextel) Cup win in 1984 with Geoff Bodine.

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External links

• Martinsville Speedway Official Site
• Martinsville Speedway Page on NASCAR.com
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