Round 4 of the series took place on the short half mile paper clip oval that is Martinsville.
Having qualified on pole I went on to lead the first 35 laps before a black flag sent me back to 36th place.
The were enough laps left to enable to me to recover to 11th place.
This left me after 4 rounds 6th in the standings.
Track Facts
Length: .526-mile or 2,777 feet
Distance of NASCAR Sprint Cup races: 500 laps = 263 miles.
Shape: "Paper-clip"-shaped oval with tight turns and 800- foot straight-aways. Turns are 588 feet long.
Track Width: 55-feet.
Track Elevation: 740 feet.
Banking: 11 degrees in turns and flat on straight-aways.
Pit Road: 46-feet wide with 43 pit stalls beginning in the third turn, wrapping around the frontstretch and exiting in turn two. Pit stalls are 14-feet wide and 28-feet in length.
Location: Located roughly one-hour south of Roanoke, VA, and one-hour north of Greensboro, NC, one mile north of the intersection of the U.S. 220/58 Bypass and U.S. 220 Business in Henry County, VA. Speedway property covers more 300 acres.
History: H. Clay Earles built Martinsville Speedway in 1947 as a dirt track before the formation of NASCAR. The first race was run on September 7, 1947 and Robert "Red" Bryon won $500 out of a $2,000 purse. The track hosted the sixth race in the NASCAR series (Strictly Stock) that eventually became the Sprint Cup Series. It also was won by Byron in a 1949 Oldsmobile on September 25, 1949. In 2004 the track was purchased by International Speedway Corporation
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