{"id":10603,"date":"2013-10-25T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=10603"},"modified":"2013-10-27T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T21:39:30","slug":"nascar-at-martinsville-2013-weekend-schedule-start-time-practice-qualifying-tv-weather-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/10\/25\/nascar-at-martinsville-2013-weekend-schedule-start-time-practice-qualifying-tv-weather-info\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR at Martinsville 2013: Weekend Schedule, Start Time, Practice, Qualifying, TV & Weather Info"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Trotman\/Getty Images for NASCAR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASCAR<\/b>\u00a0heads to Martinsville Speedway<\/strong>\u00a0in Martinsville, VA\u00a0<\/strong>this weekend. Both the\u00a0Camping World Truck Series<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0Sprint Cup Series<\/strong>\u00a0will race at the 0.526 oval track.\u00a0The\u00a0Truck Series<\/strong>\u00a0will run the Kroger 200\u00a0<\/strong>on Saturday \u2014 while the\u00a0Sprint Cup<\/strong>\u00a0teams hit the track on Sunday for the Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500<\/strong>.
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The\u00a0Nationwide Series<\/strong>\u00a0is off this weekend, they return at\u00a0Texas<\/strong>\u00a0next weekend.<\/p>\n

This is the seventh race of the\u00a0Sprint Cup Series Chase<\/strong>,\u00a0where twelve drivers battle to become this years champion. Jimmie Johnson currently leads the point standings by four points over Matt Kenseth.
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Below you will find the race weekend schedule for Martinsville Speedway<\/strong>, \u00a0including the race start time, practice and qualifying times, tv and listening info, and weather at the track \u00a0if you are headed out to see the races this weekend.<\/p>\n

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Weekend Schedule:<\/h1>\n

All times are local to track EST<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday, October 25
\n<\/b><\/span>9:00 am – 10:00 am Truck Series Practice TV: FoxSports1<\/strong><\/del>
\n 10:30 – 11:50 am Truck Series Final Practice TV: FoxSports1<\/strong><\/del>
\n 12:00 pm 1:30 pm \u00a0Sprint Cup Series Practice TV: FoxSports1<\/strong><\/del>
\n3:40 pm\u00a0Sprint Cup Series Qualifying (Two Laps – All Positions)<\/span>\u00a0Hamlin scores pole, full qualifying results<\/a>
\n<\/strong>5:00 pm Truck Series Qualifying (Two Laps – All Positions) Hamlin scores truck pole, full qualifying results<\/span><\/a><\/span>
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Saturday, October 26<\/b><\/span>
\n10:30 am 11:25 am\u00a0Sprint Cup Series Practice TV: FoxSports2<\/strong><\/del>
\n 12:00 pm 12:50 pm\u00a0Sprint Cup Series Final Practice <\/del>TV: FoxSports1<\/del>
\n1:30 pm Truck Series Race — Kroger 200 (200 laps, 105.2 miles) Darrell Wallace wins, full results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, October 27<\/b><\/span>
\n1:30 pm\u00a0Sprint Cup Series Race — Goody\u0019s Headache Relief Shot 500 (500 laps, 263 miles) Jeff Gordon wins, full results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sprint Cup Info:<\/b><\/h2>\n

Command to start engines<\/b>: Junior Johnson
\nHonorary Starter\/Wave Green Flag<\/b>: Lizard Lick’s Amy Shirley
\nNational Anthem<\/b>: N.C. State Band
\nFlyover<\/b>: the Warbirds<\/p>\n

Last Time:<\/h2>\n

Trucks:<\/strong> Johnny Sauter in Spring 2013, Denny Hamlin in Fall 2012<\/p>\n

Sprint Cup:<\/strong> Jimmie Johnson has won the last two races.<\/p>\n

Weather:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If you’re planning to head to the track this weekend don’t forget a sweatshirt, and maybe some gloves! Temperatures will be in the low 50’s on Friday, high 50’s on Saturday and mid 60’s on Sunday. The good news is that its shaking up to be a dry weekend, with no chance of rain and sunny skies.<\/p>\n

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NASCAR\u00a0heads to Martinsville Speedway\u00a0in Martinsville, VA\u00a0this weekend. Both the\u00a0Camping World Truck Series\u00a0and the\u00a0Sprint Cup Series\u00a0will race at the 0.526 oval track.\u00a0The\u00a0Truck Series\u00a0will run the Kroger 200\u00a0on Saturday \u2014 while the\u00a0Sprint Cup\u00a0teams hit the track on Sunday for the Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500. The\u00a0Nationwide Series\u00a0is off this weekend, they return at\u00a0Texas\u00a0next weekend. This is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,788],"tags":[789,409,708],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":["post-10603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-front","tag-martinsville-speedway","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10603"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}