MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY
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Martinsville Speedway is a global Speedway Corporation owned NASCAR stock racing short track set in Henry County, Ridgeway, Virginia, simply to the south of Martinsville. At 0.526 miles (847 m) long, it's the shortest track within the NASCAR Cup Series. The track was additionally one among the primary sealed oval tracks in NASCAR, being in-built 1947 by partners H. Clay Earles , Henry Lawrence and surface-to-air missile Rice per Virginia House resolve No. seventy six on the death of H. Clay Earles. it's additionally the sole race track that has been on the NASCAR circuit from its starting in 1948. together with this, Martinsville is that the solely NASCAR oval track on the complete NASCAR track circuit to own asphalt surfaces on the straightaways, then concrete to hide the turns. The track is usually observed as paper clip-shaped and is banked solely 12° within the turns. the mixture of long straightaways and flat, slim turns makes arduous braking going into turns and sleek a...