Martinsville Speedway Pre-Race Thread

36 teams/drivers [for 40 spots] are listed.
Some of the drivers entered include: #15-Yeley, #51-Ware (but he is suspended) and #78-Alfredo.

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StandOnIt said:


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It sure is going to be hard to see the whole track with that giant clock statue blocking the line of sight. Will they add on a Martinsville hot dog statue to hide the rest of the track.....
 
Hell we should make Texas dirt, not Martinsville. I honestly bet it would be a damn good race.
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MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA - APRIL 09: Austin Cindric, driver of the #2 Menards/Moen Ford, pits during the NASCAR Cup Series Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400 at Martinsville Speedway on April 09, 2022 in Martinsville, Virginia. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images) | Getty Images

MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA - APRIL 09: Austin Cindric, driver of the #2 Menards/Moen Ford, pits during the NASCAR Cup Series Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400 at Martinsville Speedway on April 09, 2022 in Martinsville, Virginia. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images) | Getty Images

Goodyear Fast Facts: Martinsville​

APRIL 11, 2023 AT 3:33 PM

NASCAR Cup Series — Race No. 9 – 400 laps / 210.4 miles
Martinsville Speedway (0.526-mile oval) – Martinsville, Va.
Fast Facts for April 15-16, 2023

Tire: Goodyear Eagle 18-inch Short Track Radials

Set limits: Cup: 1 set for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 8 sets for the race (7 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying)

Tire Codes: Left-side — D-5176; Right-side — D-5178

Tire Circumference: Left-side — 2,249 mm (88.54 in.); Right-side — 2,278 mm (89.69 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 10 psi; Left Rear — 12 psi; Right Front — 22 psi; Right Rear — 22 psi

Storyline – Goodyear comes up with a concrete solution for Martinsville: Martinsville Speedway places high physical demands on tires, with a tight turning radius and very little banking, leading to hard braking into the corners and hard acceleration off. Goodyear’s designs its tire constructions to handle such conditions, with a tire combination that is unique to the half-mile track. The other factor is the concrete corners and laying rubber on that surface. Goodyear tested at Martinsville last June and made a compound change for the fall race, designed to help lay rubber on the concrete in all weather conditions. Ambient temperatures are expected to be in the 70s this weekend, which is very mild for Southern Virginia. Rubbering in the track creates multiple lanes, leading to more side-by-side racing and passing throughout the field.
“The times of the year that we race at Martinsville often finds us in cooler temperatures,” said Greg Stucker, Goodyear’s director of racing. “Cooler ambient and track temperatures make it more difficult to put rubber down on the concrete corners, so we have worked very hard over the years to design our tread compounds to accomplish that. We tested Martinsville after the first race there last year and modified our tread compounds, taking another step toward making this tire set-up more weatherproof.”

Notes – Cup teams on fall ’22 tire set-up at Martinsville: Being on a 18-inch bead diameter tire, NASCAR Cup teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Xfinity and Truck Series at Martinsville this week . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that Cup teams ran at this track last October . . . Martinsville is the only track at which either of these two tire codes will be run . . . with this 18-inch tire, and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars will not run inner liners in any of their tires in 2023.

Wet Weather Tires – Goodyear bringing wet weather tires to Martinsville: Goodyear will bring its 18-inch wet weather radial tires to Martinsville for the NASCAR Cup cars, should NASCAR determine that conditions warrant . . . Goodyear tested its 18-inch bead diameter wet weather tire at Martinsville in June 2022, in order to determine the feasibility of running in wet conditions on ovals . . . Kyle Busch, Austin Cindric and Tyler Reddick participated in that Martinsville test . . . NASCAR Cup teams last ran a wet weather tire in competition at Watkins Glen last August . . . in addition to the obvious difference of a tread pattern versus Goodyear’s dry weather “slick” tires, the “Goodyear” and “Eagle” lettering on the sidewalls of the wet weather tires is white, not the standard yellow.
 
2 Sweet said:
Love Martinsville, and love the hotdogs. They are the best hotdogs I've ever tasted in my life. Yes, they really are that good. :cool:
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Is that so? My taste is Pepperidge Farms rolls and Market Basket dogs with Heintz Ketchup. So I think my standards are pretty.

Send some my way.

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jaqua19 said:
Is that so? My taste is Pepperidge Farms rolls and Market Basket dogs with Heintz Ketchup. So I think my standards are pretty.

Send some my way.

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Get that damn ketchup off that dog--brown coarse ground mustard....and onions. We are done here. :)
 
Looks like the chance of rain drops Sunday around 8pm. Lights and damp tires???
 
Mispeedway15 said:
Those dogs are surprisingly good and so damn cheap. Very excited about this race, Richmond showed the adjustments improved the racing considerably. Martinsville should be it’s usual awesome self
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One would think that other race tracks would pick up on the fact that offering a decent food product and not charging four times what it's worth generates a LOT of goodwill and free publicity.
 
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