Martin Truex Jr. starts from the pole at Martinsville with 6 drivers looking for the final 2 spots in the Championship 4.
The final race of the NASCAR Cup Series Round of 8 playoffs is set for Sunday afternoon at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia with two of the Championship 4 already set. 2020 NASCAR Cup champion Tyler Reddick punched his ticket into the elite group with his win last week at Homestead-Miami and Joey Logano, the 2018 and 2022 champ, put himself in a position to become just the 10th driver in series history to win at least three titles. Martin Truex Jr., who won the NASCAR Cup in 2017, will start from the pole on Sunday but is not in contention for the championship.
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Known as the “Half Mile of Mayhem,” Sunday’s race marks the 74th running of a fall race at Martinsville, an asphalt/concrete oval that, at 0.526 miles, is the shortest track on the NASCAR schedule. Six drivers share the record with six victories in the fall race, including Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson. Denny Hamlin is the lone active driver with more than one fall win, taking the checkered flag in consecutive years back in 2009-10.
With Reddick and Logano in the Championship 4, Christopher Bell leads William Byron by 22 points, with Byron seven points ahead of fifth-place Kyle Larson entering Sunday’s race. Hamlin trails by Byron by 18 points, with defending Cup champion Ryan Blaney 38 points back and Chase Elliott 43 points behind.
Blaney won last fall’s race, taking the victory by 0.899 seconds ahead of Aric Almirola. The 500-lap race covers 263 miles, with the first two stages covering 130 laps each and the final stage wrapping in the last 240 circuits.
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