Martinsville Speedway

• Paperclip
• Concrete corners
• Grandfather clock

Booth notes

Martinsville is the oldest Cup track still on the board — a 0.526-mile paperclip with concrete corners, 12 degrees of banking, and a bumper language all its own. Chase Elliott won the 2026 Cook Out 400 after Denny Hamlin led most of the day. The Chase date is the Xfinity 500 on Nov. 1, noon Mountain — penultimate race, still all 16 cars in it under the 2026 cumulative format. You do not pass people here so much as you convince them. The clock trophy is real. The fence is closer than it looks. If you leave without a mark on the right-front, you were not in the fight.

1. 012026

   Chase Elliott · #9

   Cook Out 400

2. 022025

   William Byron · #24

   Xfinity 500

3. 032025

   Denny Hamlin · #11

   Cook Out 400

4. 042024

   Ryan Blaney · #12

   Xfinity 500

5. 052024

   William Byron · #24

   Cook Out 400

6. 062023

   Ryan Blaney · #12

   Xfinity 500

7. 072023

   Kyle Larson · #5

   NOCO 400

8. 082022

   Christopher Bell · #20

   Xfinity 500

9. 092022

   William Byron · #24

   Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400

10. 102021

    Alex Bowman · #48

    Xfinity 500

Fun facts

• Oldest NASCAR track still hosting Cup. First Cup race: 1949.

• Paperclip: two long straights, hairpin ends, concrete in the corners, asphalt on the straights.

• Winners still get a grandfather clock. That trophy is unique on the Cup trail.

• Ryan Blaney went back-to-back in the fall Xfinity 500 (2023–24).

• Elliott’s March 2026 win was his first Martinsville Cup trophy since the 2020 fall playoff race.

• Lore

  “The paperclip” is booth shorthand. It looks like one from the blimp.