NASCAR Cup Series

No. 56 Toyota driverMartin Truex Jr. and the NAPA Racing team left Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday pleased they battled for lead in the final laps before earning a 10th-place finish.

Dodge has 10 wins at Martinsville including three sweeps (1953, 1956 and 1975).

Roush Fenway not only survived 500 miles at Talladega Superspeedway, but left the race in first and second position in the 2011 Chase standings. This week the team will try to continue its performance on the half-mile short track of Martinsville Speedway.

Ragan on racing at Martinsville Speedway : “ Martinsville is one of my favorite tracks on the schedule. It will take some adjusting coming from the biggest track on the circuit, to the shortest track, but we have had some good runs on the short tracks this year and I expect to run up front."

Oct. 25, 2011- Statement from Jack Roush, co-owner Roush Fenway Racing regarding Sunday’s Sprint Cup Race at Talladega:

Martinsville Speedway is Jeff Gordon’s seventh heaven. For now. In 37 starts at the 0.526-mile track, Gordon has seven victories and seven poles.

This Week’s Monster Energy Chevrolet Silverado … Ricky Carmichael will pilot chassis TMS-018 from the Turner Motorsports NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) stable in Saturday’s Kroger 200 at Martinsville Speedway.

McMurray at Martinsville: During McMurray’s Sprint Cup Series career, he has made 17 starts at the paperclip known as Martinsville Speedway. In those races, he has scored one top-five, 10 top-10s and has started on the front row four times, including his first pole at the track back in April of this season.

Johnson has made 19 Sprint Cup Series starts at Martinsville Speedway, where he has six wins, 13 top-five and 17 top-10 finishes.

In 23 Cup starts at Martinsville, Kenseth has completed 11,409 of 11,519 laps (99.0 percent) and led for 68 laps