NASCAR Xfinity Series
Next Race: US Marine Corps 250
The Place: Martinsville Speedway
Track Length: 0.526 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Saturday, March 29
The Time: 5 p.m. ET
The Purse: $1,651,939
TV: CW, 4:30 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 131.5 miles (250 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 60),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 120), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 250)
Where To Watch NASCAR This Week:
Friday, March 28
NCTS Practice & Kennametal Pole Qualifying (FS2 at 2 p.m. ET)
NXS Practice & Kennametal Pole Qualifying (The CW App at 4:30 p.m. ET)
NCTS Race: Boys And Girls Club Of The Blue Ridge 200 (FS1, NRN, SiriusXM at 7:30 p.m. ET)
Saturday, March 29
NCS Practice & Busch Light Pole Qualifying (Amazon Prime, MRN, SiriusXM at 2 p.m. ET)
NXS Race: US Marine Corps 250 (The CW, MRN, SiriusXM at 5 p.m. ET)
Sunday, March 30
NCS Race: Cook Out 400 (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM at 3 p.m. ET)
Martinsville Storylines and Insights:
- This weekend will be the 44th running of a NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway (1982-2025).
- Martinsville is the second of four Dash 4 Cash races: Miami, Martinsville, Bristol, Rockingham.
- The four Dash 4 Cash drivers for Martinsville are: #00 Sheldon Creed, #7 Justin Allgaier, #21 Austin Hill and #41 Sam Mayer.
- Justin Allgaier won his sixth Dash 4 Cash bonus at Homestead-Miami, most all-time.
- Justin Allgaier won back-to-back races for the second-time in his career, the last driver to win three in a row was Noah Gragson in 2022 when he won four straight.
- Justin Allgaier’s 27th NXS win tied him with Jeff Burton for ninth all-time.
- Martinsville is the first of five short track races in 2025.
- The last nine Xfinity Series races at Martinsville were won by eight different drivers.
- Richard Childress Racing’s next win will be their 100th in NASCAR Xfinity Series; only two other teams won at least 100 NXS races (Joe Gibbs Racing-215, Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing-138)
- Corey Day is making his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut at Martinsville driving the Hendrick Motorsports’ #17, which has finished in top-five in all three starts this season.
- Three drivers are making their Xfinity Series debut: #17 Corey Day, #24 Patrick Staropoli, #66 Tyler Tomassi.
- Four drivers in the field are past Xfinity Series Martinsville winners: Aric Almirola (2 wins), Justin Allgaier (1), Brandon Jones (1) and Harrison Burton (1).
- Christian Eckes won both CRAFTSMAN Truck races at Martinsville last year, Carson Kvapil won the late model race there last September.
- Three drivers finished runner-up at Martinsville in NASCAR Xfinity Series but are still winless there: Creed-2, S. Smith-2 and Mayer-1.
- Three races this year ended with a last lap pass, the most ever through six races in a season.
- Three of the last six Martinsville races featured last-lap passes.
- The driver starting first failed to win the last 27 races at Martinsville.
- The Stage 1 winner won the last four Martinsville races.
- Five of the last seven Martinsville races finished in overtime.
- Joe Gibbs Racing (6) and JR Motorsports (3) combined to win the last nine Martinsville races (all nine since the series returned to the track).
- Three of the six races this season went to overtime.
- Three drivers have a series leading four top-five finishes in 2025 (Mayer, Hill, Allgaier), Mayer is the only one without a win this season.
- Aric Almirola finished in top three in his last six starts and swept both Martinsville races in 2024.
- Brandon Jones’ average finish in last three races is 21 positions better than his average finish in first three races of season.
- Justin Allgaier and Jesse Love are the only drivers to finish on the lead lap in all six Xfinity races of 2025.
- Jesse Love is the only driver to score top-20 finishes in all six races of 2025.
- Chevrolet has led 809 of 963 laps this season (84%).
- Sheldon Creed scored 28 more stage points through six races than he did last year, the biggest improvement of any full-time driver.
Xfinity Dash 4 Cash Rundown:
- Martinsville is the second of four Dash 4 Cash races: Miami, Martinsville, Bristol and Rockingham.
- Justin Allgaier won Dash 4 Cash at Miami, his record sixth win.
- Martinsville Dash 4 Cash drivers: #00 Sheldon Creed, #7 Justin Allgaier, #21 Austin Hill, #41 Sam Mayer.
- The best finishing of the four Dash 4 Cash drivers will win a $100,000 bonus.
- 2025 is the 17th season of Dash 4 Cash in the NXS.
- $6,025,000 awarded since the start of the program in 2009.
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Historical & Significant Events at Martinsville Speedway:
- Opened in September of 1947 by Henry Clay Earles, Martinsville Speedway, originally a dirt track, is one of the oldest continuously-operating race tracks in the United States.
- Located at an overgrown 30 acre cornfield just outside Martinsville. Construction of the track was soon underway in 1947 and ended up costing $60,000.
- The first NASCAR-sanctioned race at Martinsville Speedway was on July 4, 1948.
- The first NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway was on September 25, 1949, and was a 200 lap (100 mile) race that was won by NASCAR Hall of Famer Red Byron driving an Oldsmobile for car owner Raymond Parks.
- The track was paved during the summer months of 1955. The first race at the track that season was on dirt (May 15) and the second race of the year was the first on the paved track (Oct. 16). Prior to paving the track, the Cup Series ran 12 races total on the dirt at Martinsville (1949-1955).
- The first 500-lap (250 mile) event at Martinsville Speedway was in 1956 and was won by NASCAR Hall of Famer Buck Baker from the pole position. Baker was driving a 1956 Dodge for car owner Carl Kiekhaefer.
- In 1964 Earles decided it was time for a different type of trophy for race winners. His choice was a grandfather clock produced by nearby Ridgeway Clock Company. On September 27, 1964, Earles awarded the first clock trophy to Fred Lorenzen, the winner of the Old Dominion 500 that afternoon.
- Richard Petty has the most clocks with 12 (he won three times at Martinsville prior to the introduction of the clock). Darrell Waltrip won 11, while Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson each have 9 clocks.
- Concrete corners were added atop asphalt in 1976 at Martinsville Speedway.
- International Speedway Corporation (now NASCAR) purchased the privately owned Martinsville Speedway in 2004 for $192 million.
- In the past 20 years the track has stepped up its investment in improvements and additions to establish the once dusty ½ mile dirt track on 30 acres into a modern facility encompassing over 300 acres.
- In 2017, lights were added to Martinsville Speedway. The project cost an estimated $5 million to complete.
- In total, there have been 152 NASCAR Cup Series points-paying races at Martinsville Speedway, one in the inaugural year and two races per year since 1950.
- Martinsville Speedway, at 152 NASCAR Cup Series points-paying races, has hosted the second-most points paying events all-time, behind only Daytona International Speedway at 156.