Playoffs/Martinsville Pre-Race Thread

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Martinsville Speedway
2:00pm/et, Sunday, Oct. 29
TV: NBC
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM
Stage Laps: 130/260/500
Practice/Qualifying: 12:35-2:30pm/et, Sat. Oct 28. TV-USA.
 
Thinking about going to the spring race here, Any seat recommendations and places to stay
 
MRM said:
Apparently some of you have forgotten about how lackluster the racing has been on short tracks with the new car, especially at Martinsville.
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Some of us don't care. A mediocre race and an outright bad hot dog on a cold day at Martinsville is still as close to Heaven as one can get on this side of the dirt.
 
MRM said:
Apparently some of you have forgotten about how lackluster the racing has been on short tracks with the new car, especially at Martinsville.
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All it is going to take is a certain driver _insert name here_____________using up another driver-insert name here______________ and the fans will say it was the best Martinsville race ever.
 
Whiskyb said:
Thinking about going to the spring race here, Any seat recommendations and places to stay
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First turn, section BB, rows 30 and up. As close to the stairs as possible.

Try and stay at the Hampton Inn Martinsville if possible. 15 minutes from the track and not very expensive, but it was probably booked up the day the schedule was announced (if not before).
 
Whiskyb said:
Thanks, for the suggestions. And yes the Hampton in sold out
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Yeah, I'm not sure how, but I went to the spring race in '18 and managed to reserve a room there. I've tried a couple times since with no luck. Pretty sure it was last year, I called the day before the schedule was even released and they were already booked.
 
Some of the drivers entered include: #15-J.J. Yeley, #42-Carson Hocevar, #51-Ryan Newman, #78-B.J. McLeod.

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StandOnIt said:
All it is going to take is a certain driver _insert name here_____________using up another driver-insert name here______________ and the fans will say it was the best Martinsville race ever.
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Tbh while I don't like ANY JGR car or Yota, best case for me would be Truex dumps Denny hard for the win, given Truex's clean reputation and being teammates, then Buescher passes them both during the process and wins. That would almost be up there with the hail melon for entertainment.
 
StandOnIt said:
All it is going to take is a certain driver _insert name here_____________using up another driver-insert name here______________ and the fans will say it was the best Martinsville race ever.
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You know it SOI. Hamcrap is such a d-bag. His now patented slide up and jam up move may soon bring him heavy retaliation. It was SOOOOO SWEEET to see him rack his car up on the wall this past Sunday. I’m sure he will be willing to dump his mama and both daughters if needed to get this win. Hopefully he pulls out his handy Denny DumbA$$ card and self destructs. If not perhaps he will tick off one too many and get dumped.
 
Conover said:
You know it SOI. Hamcrap is such a d-bag. His now patented slide up and jam up move may soon bring him heavy retaliation. It was SOOOOO SWEEET to see him rack his car up on the wall this past Sunday. I’m sure he will be willing to dump his mama and both daughters if needed to get this win. Hopefully he pulls out his handy Denny DumbA$$ card and self destructs. If not perhaps he will tick off one too many and get dumped.
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I would love to see somebody help Hamlin out. Hamlin needs more wall time, he's earned it.
 
I just finished watching last years playoff race at MVille. There was plenty of action and Chastain's hail Melon was the capper.
 
MRM said:
Apparently some of you have forgotten about how lackluster the racing has been on short tracks with the new car, especially at Martinsville.
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I'm looking forward to it, but I agree with you that it most likely isn't going to be all that incredible of a race like we'd expect. The bumpers line up so well and with downshifting at play, we aren't going to see an old-school Martinsville race.

I predict a Denny Hamlin win.
 
Fwiw...weather is currently great for Sunday but that's only because of a blocking high pressure. Looking like steady rain Sunday 50-100 miles west and north of the track. Definitely something to keep an eye on.
 
Blaney has to run his average at M'ville of 6.7 and he will shut out the others and force them into a must win situation. Not too worried about Byron he has a pretty good pad. Buescher's stats suck.
 
I'm hoping the sea's part for Larson to grab another one so he can capitalize on all that top talent, and then the rest can points battle their way in.
 

Goodyear Fast Facts — Martinsville​

NASCAR Cup Series — Race No. 35 – 500 laps / 263 miles Martinsville Speedway (0.526-mile oval) – Martinsville, Va.
Fast Facts for October 28-29, 2023

Tire: Goodyear Eagle 18-inch Short Track Radials

Set limits: Cup:
1 set for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 9 sets for the race
(8 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying)

Tire Codes: Left-side — D-5234; Right-side — D-5236

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 – Key to Martinsville is keeping cool while retaining heat: Being a short track with relatively long straightaways, very little banking and tight corners, Martinsville Speedway traditionally produces close racing, a lot of contact on the track and hot tempers. While it behooves one to keep a cool head, maintaining heat in the tires is the goal for Goodyear this weekend. Cup teams will have a new tire set-up at Martinsville, designed with a thicker gage – or tread thickness – and tested at Richmond Raceway in August. The Next Gen car doesn’t generate as much tire heat as the previous generation car. The 18-inch tire is wider, has a bigger footprint, can carry more load, dissipates more heat and runs on an aluminum wheel instead of steel, so it’s something Goodyear has been thinking about and developing.

“Normally heat can be the enemy of the tire, but at the same time we want to put enough heat into the tire so it works at an optimum level,” said Greg Stucker, Goodyear’s director of racing. “One way to affect that is increase the tread gage. We got a lot of positive feedback on that during testing at Richmond earlier this year. This tire fires off quickly, is quite a bit more forgiving and seems to open the tuning window for the teams. The extra gage will build heat quicker and hold heat more over the course of a run, which is good for the times of year we typically race at Martinsville. It’s a pretty subtle change, but it has a lot of potential for not only Martinsville, but all of the short tracks. We’ve learned a lot about Martinsville and it’s concrete corners over the years and we’re learning more about the Next Gen car and what it wants.”

Notes – New Cup tire set-up for Martinsville: Being on 18-inch bead diameter tires, NASCAR Cup Series teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Xfinity Series at Martinsville this week . . . this is a brand new combination of left- and right-side tires, with a thicker gage (tread thickness) than what was run at this track in April . . . with this 18-inch tire, and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars do not run inner liners in any of their tires.

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 . . . Cup teams will have a maximum of four sets of wet weather tires for the event . . . Goodyear originally 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 the Chicago street course in July, and last ran it on a short track in the All-Star race at North Wilkesboro in May . . . 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.
 
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