Though Denny Hamlin won Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville in dominant fashion, leading 274 of 400 laps, with a clean 75-lap run to the finish — the Xfinity race was a very different story. With just 100 laps to go, the drivers managed to earn nine cautions, all culminatingContinue Reading
The term ‘commissioner’ is something fans of most stick-and-ball sports are extremely familiar with. The NFL has Roger Goodell, the NBA has Adam Silver, the MLB has Rob Manfred, but it’s a role that hasn’t really existed in the same form in NASCAR.Now, stock car racing has used the title before, but notContinue Reading
NASCAR completed its triple-header weekend at Martinsville Speedway featuring three very different races and plenty of drama. Most of the conversation centers around the highly controversial finish to Saturday’s Xfinity race, but there was plenty of action beyond that. Denny Hamlin, Austin Hill and Daniel Hemric walked away with checkeredContinue Reading
It’s just short-track racin’, after all. Get your fill of a Cup Series Sunday drive as short tempers shine through at Martinsville. SourceContinue Reading
Denny Hamlin describes his special bond with Martinsville Speedway and why he wants to dominate each trip to the race track. SourceContinue Reading
Erik Jones finished 24th in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville, one lap down. Thanks to a fifth-place finish in the opening stage, he managed to score a total of 19 points. Unfortunately for Jones, he will now leave Martinsville with just a single point due to problems in post-raceContinue Reading
Joey Logano won the opening stage at Martinsville Speedway and went on to earn his first top-ten finish of the year, but he still leaves the Virginia short track frustrated.The three-time and reigning Cup Series champion was battling hard on a late-race restart when Ross Chastain cut down in frontContinue Reading
It was a dominant showing for Denny Hamlin at Martinsville, leading over half the race (274 of 400 laps) in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. This is Hamlin’s first win of the 2025 season and the 55th of his career — tying Rusty Wallace for 11th on theContinue Reading
The NASCAR Xfinity race at Martinsville featured 14 cautions and one red flag, with 104 of 256 laps run under yellow flag conditions. It was a rough short track race with contact all around the half-mile, culminating in a controversial finish where Sammy Smith came from several car lengths backContinue Reading
Taylor Gray was attempting to win for the first time in his NASCAR Xfinity Series career, while Sammy Smith was aiming to deny him on Saturday night. Through a series of restarts and a red flag, as the race became a crash fest, tensions mounted between the two leaders.With onlyContinue Reading