For the first time in 13 years, the NASCAR Xfinity Series returned to Martinsville Speedway for race No. 32 of the 2020 season and the final race in the Round of 8 Playoffs.
The NASCAR Gander RV and Outdoors Truck Series visited Martinsville Speedway last Friday night for their second to last race of the 2020 season and the final event before the Championship 4 race at Phoenix Raceway.
Nine wins, earning the 2020 Regular Season Championship, capturing 20 top fives with 1531 laps led; it’s been an impressive season by any standard. But it was not enough for Kevin Harvick to advance to the Championship 4.
A late turn of events at Martinsville Speedway resulted with Chase Elliott racing his way into the Championship 4 finale by winning and Kevin Harvick eliminated from title contention by a narrow margin.
Grant Enfinger, who was in a must-win situation, held off his ThorSport teammate Ben Rhodes to claim his spot in the Championship 4 by winning the NASCAR Hall of Fame 200.
The two-time reigning Cup champion spoiled the Playoff battle by snapping a season-long winless drought at the Lone Star state following a three-day weather delay.
Sheldon Creed won in an overtime restart after fending off a hard-charging Austin Hill late in the going. Creed had one of the dominate trucks throughout the race, winning Stage 1, before taking the lead once again inside 15 to go and claiming the third victory of his career.
The three-time Supercars champion from Auckland, New Zealand, led a race-high 74 of 110 laps and fended off Chase Briscoe over a 47-lap dash to the finish to notch his eighth Cup victory on a road course and his second in a row in Sonoma, California.
Kevin Rivenbark opened the JBS Equipment NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by Elite Motorsports Road to the Championship with a victory on Sunday at Summit Motorsports Park
Shane van Gisbergen, driver of the No. 97 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, was first to the checkered at Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway.
The 19-year-old Zilisch from Charlotte, North Carolina, achieved a career-best seventh-place result amid a difficult Cup Series rookie campaign in Sonoma, California.
RFK Racing put on a show of determination at Sonoma Raceway, led by Ryan Preece's eighth-place finish in the No. 60 Consumer Cellular Ford Mustang Dark Horse.