**Next Race**Event Schedule** Track Info
Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500
Martinsville Speedway
NASCAR Sprint Cup Race #33 of 36 for the 2014 season
Chase for the Sprint Cup race #7 of 10
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Radio:
TV:
MRN, 12:30 p.m. (ET)
ESPN, 1 p.m. (ET)
Scheduled Green Flag (approx): 1:43pm/et
------------------------------------------------------------
Upcoming schedule
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
-- noon-1:20 p.m. ET: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, FOX Sports 1
-- 1:40-2:30 p.m. ET: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practice, FOX Sports 1?
-- 3-4:25 p.m. ET: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series final practice, FOX Sports 1 ?
-- 4:40 p.m. ET: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FOX Sports 1
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
-- 9-9:50 a.m. ET: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, FOX Sports 1
?-- 10:15 a.m. ET: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Keystone Light Pole Qualifying, FOX Sports 1?
-- noon-12:50 p.m. ET: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series final practice, FOX Sports 1 ?
-- 1:30 p.m. ET: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Kroger 200 (200 laps, 105.2 miles), FOX Sports 1
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
-- 1:30 p.m. ET: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 (500 laps, 263 miles), ESPN
------------------------------------------------------------------
Track Length: .526 miles
Race Length: 500 Laps - 263 Miles
First Race: May 20, 1956 - Virginia 500
Banking: 12° (Corners); 0° (Straights)
Lengths: 800 feet (Frontstretch & Backstretch)
Seating: 65,000
March 2014 Race Winner: #41-Kyle Busch, 72.176mph, started 22nd
October 2013 race Winner: #24-Jeff Gordon, 70.337mph, started 9th
Track Race Record: Jeff Gordon, Sept 1996, 82.223mph
March 2014 Pole Winner: #18-Kyle Busch, 99.674mph, finished 14th
October 2013 Pole Winner: #11-Denny Hamlin, 99.595mph, finished 7th
Track Qualifying Record: Joey Logano, March 28, 2014, 100.201mph, set in first round of qualifying
Track History
Opened in September 1947 by H. Clay Earles, Martinsville, originally a dirt track, is one of the oldest continuously-operating race tracks in the United States.
The first NASCAR-sanctioned race at Martinsville was on July 4, 1948.
The first NASCAR Sprint Cup race was Sept. 25, 1949.
The track was paved in 1955.
The first 500-lap event at Martinsville was in 1956.
Concrete corners were added atop asphalt in 1976.
Track Notebook
Curtis Turner won the pole for the first NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville in 1949.
Red Byron won the first NASCAR Sprint Cup race.
Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin and Darrell Waltrip share the consecutive pole record, each with three.
Richard Petty leads 15 wins.
Kurt Busch won the 2002 fall race from the 36th starting position, the furthest back a race winner has started.
Youngest NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Martinsville Speedway winner: Richard Petty (4/10/1960 – 22 years, 9 months, 8 days). Oldest NSCS Martinsville Speedway winner: Harry Gant (9/22/1991 – 51 years, 8 months, 12 days).
Youngest NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Martinsville Speedway pole winner: Ricky Rudd (4/26/1981 – 24 years, 7 months, 14 days). Oldest NSCS Martinsville Speedway pole winner: Morgan Shepherd (04/26/1987 – 45 years, 6 months, 14 days).
