NASCAR Cup Series

This week, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series comes off the Easter holiday and rolls into Ridgeway, Virginia to run the STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway. The 500 lap race on the .526 mile (.847 km) short track will be the sixth race of the 2016 season.

Rising country music artist and actress Jana Kramer will perform a free concert at Dover International Speedway’s Victory Plaza prior to the “AAA 400 Drive for Autism” NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Sunday, May 15, track officials announced today.

For the sixth straight year, The Dale Jr. Foundation (TDJF) is offering fans the chance to win a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr., and all you need is $25.

Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Greg Biffle, and Danica Patrick all took to the track Tuesday for a Goodyear Tire Test. Drivers were preparing for the upcoming TOYOTA OWNERS 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway on Sunday, April 24th. RIR and day racing were all the buzz as Hamlin and Logano both took time to talk.

A full field. I may be a traditionalist in many ways, but a 40 car field seems about right to me now. It costs money to put a car on the track, to fit the templates, to run fast enough over a lap or two to qualify. That is even so when that auto is destined to simply start and park.

Roush Fenway has earned four Grandfather Clocks at Martinsville with drivers Mark Martin (two), Jeff Burton and Kurt Busch. Roush Fenway most recently went to Victory Lane with Busch in Oct. 2002.

Bayne will make his 100th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start on Sunday afternoon. In 99 previous starts, Bayne has recorded one victory, the 2011 running of the Daytona 500. Upon taking the green flag Sunday, Bayne will become the 197th driver to start 100 NSCS races.

Coming off the first off weekend in the 2016 NSCS season, the No.32 Donate Life Virgina/AlloSource Ford Fusion team is ready to go short track racing with Joey Gase at this weekend's 67th annual STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, VA.

HAMLIN’S VIRGINIA VICTORIES: Camry driver and Virginia native Denny Hamlin won the 2015 spring race at Martinsville Speedway, marking his fifth-career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) victory at the 0.526-mile short track in his home state. Among active drivers, Hamlin has the second-best average finish at Martinsville (8.0) in the NSCS with five wins and 16 top-10 results in 20 starts on the paperclip-shaped track.

Texas Motor Speedway celebrates its 20th anniversary this year as the country's most successful major-market motorsports venue by taking a look back at the 20 most significant moments since it opened in 1997.