{"id":20039,"date":"2019-03-19T14:53:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T18:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20039"},"modified":"2019-03-19T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T18:53:41","slug":"martinsville-speedway-nascar-weekened-schedule-race-start-time-tv-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/03\/19\/martinsville-speedway-nascar-weekened-schedule-race-start-time-tv-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinsville Speedway: NASCAR Weekened Schedule, Race Start Time, TV Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18241\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/03\/martinsville-1024x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/03\/martinsville-1024x204.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/03\/martinsville-594x118.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/03\/martinsville-300x60.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/03\/martinsville-768x153.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After three weeks out west, NASCAR has returned east. Both the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and the Gander Outdoors Truck Series will be in action at the oldest and shortest track on the schedule, Martinsville Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Famous for clocks, hotdogs and its paperclip turns, Martinsville Speedway will give short track fans what they have missed in the early weeks of the NASCAR season.<\/p>\n<p>Friday track activity is limited to just truck practice before a full slate of action on Saturday highlighted by the truck race at 2 pm followed by MENCS qualifying. On Sunday the STP 500 takes place. A full weekend schedule of NASCAR at Martinsville can be found below.<\/p>\n<h2>NASCAR Weekend Schedule<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1:05 p.m.-1:55 p.m. Gander Outdoors Truck Series First Practice<\/p>\n<p>3:05 p.m.-3:55 p.m. Gander Outdoors Truck Series Final Practice<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, March 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9:35 a.m.-10:25 a.m. Monster Energy Cup Series First Practice (MRN\/FS1)<\/p>\n<p>10:40 a.m. Gander Outdoors Truck Series Qualifying (FS1)<\/p>\n<p>12:30 p.m.-1:20 p.m. Monster Energy Cup Series Final Practice (MRN\/FS1)<\/p>\n<p>2:00 p.m. Gander Outdoors Truck Series Martinsville 250 (MRN\/FS1)<\/p>\n<p>5:00 p.m. Monster Energy Cup Series Qualifying (MRN\/FS1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, March 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2:00 p.m. Monster Energy Cup Series STP 500 (MRN\/FS1)\u00a0 (STAGES 130\/260\/500 LAPS = 263 MILES)<\/p>\n<h2>Previous Winners<\/h2>\n<p>MENCS: Clint Bowyer (Spring 2018), Joey Logano (Fall 2018)<br \/>\nTrucks: John Hunter Nemechek (Spring 2018), Johnny Sauter (Fall 2018)<\/p>\n<h2>Weather<\/h2>\n<p>After two days of clouds and temps in the upper 50s, Sunday will see temps with a high of 65.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three weeks out west, NASCAR has returned east. Both the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and the Gander Outdoors Truck Series will be in action at the oldest and shortest track on the schedule, Martinsville Speedway. Famous for clocks, hotdogs and its paperclip turns, Martinsville Speedway will give short track fans what they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,409,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-20039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-martinsville-speedway","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20039","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20039"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}