MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY

 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 acceleration exiting turns a requirement. The track was sealed in 1955 and in 1956 it hosted its initial 500-lap event. By the Nineteen Seventies, a mix of high-traction slick tires and high speed was golf shot excessive wane the asphalt surface. In 1976 the turns were repaved with concrete (a rare thought within the 1970s). By 2004, the then 28-year-old concrete had shown vital wear. On Gregorian calendar month eighteen, 2004 an outsized chunk of concrete had become dislodged from the track's surface and caused severe harm to the body of Jeff Gordon's automotive. In reaction to the current, the track was totally repaved with new concrete and asphalt.

Until 1999, Martinsville was infamous for having 2 pit roads. The backstretch pit road was usually avoided as a result of if a team had to pit there throughout a caution, any automotive erosion on the front stretch had the advantage of erosion initial and not having to stick to machine speed upon exiting their pit road. This was corrected once pit road was reconfigured to increase from the doorway of flip three to the exit of flip two. This move allowed for a garage to be engineered within the track, and leaves urban center Motor Speedway because the solely active NASCAR track with 2 pit roads.