NASCAR Cup Series

Stenhouse has five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts at Martinsville with an average starting position of 22.2 and average finishing position of 30.2.

Bayne makes his third career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Martinsville Speedway this weekend.

Almirola has 13 Sprint Cup Series starts at Martinsville where he scored one Top-Five, three Top-10 and four Top-15 finishes. He scored his best finish at the paper clip-shaped oval in 2014 when he drove the No. 43 Ford to a fourth-place finish. He also has five Truck Series starts with one Top-Five and two Top-10 finishes.

Hornish goes to Martinsville with eight previous starts at the track in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. He has a best finish of 13th (spring 2010 and fall 2012) at the flat short track. He is looking for his first Top-10 finish at the track this weekend. His best start at Martinsville Speedway is 24th.

The Eliminator Round begins this weekend at Martinsville Speedway and Ford’s Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski are still alive in the battle for this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. Here’s a look at Ford’s history at Martinsville.

“Additionally, aside from today’s post-race inspection, NASCAR has completed review of any other potential penalties from the track this past weekend, and there will be no further actions.”

There is a single word that I dearly would like to begin this article with. One word. However, due to my raising and the fact there are some rules that prohibit me from using that one word, I shall have to come up with a compromise. Fudge!

Dale Earnhardt Jr. had to win Sunday at Talladega in order to move forward to the Eliminator Round of the Chase. For a few brief moments, it looked as though he had done that just that. However, an untimely caution flag flew and it was determined that Joey Logano was actually leading the race when the caution was called, leaving Earnhardt out in the cold.

Now I know y'all heard me make this rant just two days ago, but if NASCAR can do two takes of "one attempt," then so can I. Now I do wish I had waited until today to start talking on the matter because I have more evidence to support my claim.

The championship playoff known as the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup has had more turns that a West Virginia mountain, but Sunday’s campingworld.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway took the cake.