Length:
.526-mile or 2,777 feet/500 laps = 263 miles.

Shape:
"Paper-clip"-shaped oval with tight turns and 800- foot straight-aways. Turns are 588 feet long.

Track Width:
55-feet.

Track Elevation:
740 feet.

Banking:
12 degrees in turns and flat on straight-aways.

Pit Road:
46-feet wide with 43 pit stalls beginning in the third turn, wrapping around the frontstretch and exiting in turn two. Pit stalls are 14-feet wide and 28-feet in length.

Press Box:
100-seat box for deadline media above turns one and two.

Location:
One mile north of the intersection of the U.S. 220/58 Bypass and U.S. 220 Business in Henry County, VA. Speedway property covers 250 acres.

History:
H. Clay Earles built Martinsville Speedway in 1947 as a dirt track before the formation of NASCAR. The first race was run on September 7, 1947 and Robert "Red" Bryon won $500 out of a $2,000 purse. The track hosted the sixth race in the NASCAR series (Strictly Stock) that eventually became the Sprint Cup Series. It also was won by Byron in a 1949 Oldsmobile on September 25, 1949. In 2004 the track was purchased by International Speedway Corporation.