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NASCAR racing should return to its roots more often
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va.—A race at Martinsville is a reminder and a revelation. It’s a reminder, because, in watching an event at the .526-mile track, we recall the roots of NASCAR racing. It’s a revelation, because we come to the traditional short tracks so infrequently that a steady diet of intermediate speedways dulls our sense of what racing is really like when it returns to those roots. Sunday’s rock-’em-sock-’em Tums Fast Relief 500 was … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
No. 38 Jackman Treated and Released from Hospital after Being Hit on Pit Road
Statesville, N.C. – Sean Irvan, the jackman for the No. 38 Long John Silver’s Ford team of Front Row Motorsports, was treated and released from Martinsville (Va.) Memorial Hospital after being hit on pit road during Sunday’s Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway. Irvan, a native of Monterey, Calif., suffered a concussion, a neck strain and a medial collateral ligament strain in his right knee. He suffered the neck and knee injuries and lost … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Dale Earnhardt Jr. enjoys dishing out punishment at Martinsville
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va.—In a wild race that featured drivers trading shots—some deserved, some cheap—Dale Earnhardt Jr. gave better than he got in Sunday’s Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway. Earnhardt was the catalyst for the race’s first caution, when he bounced off the curbing in Turn 1 and sent Kurt Busch spinning. He also was involved in an incident with fewer than three laps left, when he knocked Denny Hamlin … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Late wreck puts major dent in Matt Kenseth’s title run
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va.—Matt Kenseth was 36 laps from a respectable run Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, a track that has treated him unkindly in the past. He restarted 12th on Lap 463 of the Tums Fast Relief 500, three positions ahead of Roush Fenway Racing teammate Carl Edwards, the driver he is pursuing in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. A lap later, however, Kenseth’s race went haywire. His No. 17 Ford … Read entire article »
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Brian Vickers draws fire from other drivers for Martinsville wrecks
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va.—Jimmie Johnson nicknamed Brian Vickers ‘The Sheriff’ when his friend showed up for a shooting party in Texas with a magnum revolver Dirty Harry Callahan would have admired. In Sunday’s Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway, Vickers was more of a loose cannon, and his fifth wreck of the afternoon—an attempt to retaliate against Matt Kenseth that went awry—caused the final caution that may have deprived Johnson of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Tony Stewart passes Jimmie Johnson for Martinsville win
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va.—Tony Stewart passed Jimmie Johnson on a restart with three laps left in Sunday’s Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway and held off Johnson’s desperate bid for the win on the final lap. The victory was Stewart’s third in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup and vaulted him into second place in the standings, eight points behind leader Carl Edwards. Stewart won for the 42nd time in … Read entire article »
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NASCAR Notebook: Biffle, Harvick trade shots and insults
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va.—Kevin Harvick apparently didn’t like the shot his No. 29 Chevrolet took from Greg Biffle’s No. 16 Ford during Sprint Cup practice on Saturday afternoon at Martinsville Speedway. Biffle and Harvick traded bumps on the racetrack, then stopped beside each other at the bottom of the backstretch, apparently expressing displeasure with each other. Later, as Biffle’s crew was pushing his car in the garage, Harvick blocked their progress with his … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Denny Hamlin uses late charge to win first truck series race
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va.—Making excellent use of a fresh set of tires, Denny Hamlin drove through the field after a pit stop on Lap 134 and won Saturday’s Kroger 200 Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway in his only start this year. Ron Hornaday Jr. ran second to make a small dent in the advantage on series points leader Austin Dillon, who finished third. Johnny Sauter ran fourth, followed by … Read entire article »
Filed under: Truck Series
Wet track forces cancellation of Martinsville Sprint Cup qualifying
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va.—With the racing surface at Martinsville Speedway still wet from overnight rains, NASCAR and the track had to adjust Saturday’s schedule of events, and Sprint Cup qualifying was a casualty. With qualifying canceled in favor of a Cup practice at noon ET—a postponement from a planned 8:30 a.m. session—the field for Sunday’s Tums Fast Relief 500 was set according to owner points. That puts the 12 Chase for the … Read entire article »
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