2012 Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Betting at Martinsville Speedway

The sixth race of the season will be staged here March 28. And on Oct. 24, the Tums Fast Relief 500 will be the fifth-to-last race of the season, when the championship battle is taking shape and the contenders are separating themselves from the pretenders.

Martinsville Speedway will prove again, its not the size of your track that counts, its what you do with it. At slightly more than half a mile, the Martinsville Speedway is the shortest track on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Circuit. Don't let Martinsville small size fool you, because this track is one of the biggest when it comes to action. It has 800 foot straight-aways and turns banked at only 12 degrees of banking, and has been called "two drag strips with a turnaround on each end".

Martinsville Speedway, is 0.526-mile track, with a unique shape (think paper clip) gives drivers two straight-aways and two very tight corners where brakes get tested more than anywhere else on the circuit. The demanding layout consistently produces some of the wildest fender scrubbing, push and shove racing on the NASCAR circuit.

Martinsville Speedway has always been a difficult test for Sprint Cup drivers and teams. Seven-time series champion Richard Petty is the all-time leader with 15 career Cup victories at Martinsville Speedway, while Darrell Waltrip is an 11-time winner.

Darlington is the oldest superspeedway, but Martinsville is the oldest track, period. What is now known as Nextel Cup began as Strictly Stock in 1949, and there have been races at Martinsville in every NASCAR season.

2011 Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Winner

Kevin Harvick picked up his second-straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win on Sunday as he held off Dale Earnhardt Jr. to win the 2011 Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500.

2010 Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Winner

Denny Hamlin made a late surge on a green-white-checkered finish to get the win in the 2010 Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 from Martinsville Speedway.