Complete Preview and Prediction for 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup at Martinsville

There are three things you need to know about Martinsville Speedway: old-school cool, grandfather clocks and red hot dogs. This place is the very definition of old school. Martinsville Speedway has been staging stock-car racing before there was a NASCAR. Ask any Sprint Cup driver about Martinsville Speedway, and you’ll likely get some variation of a love-hate answer. Its narrow straightaways and tight corners are reminiscent of the race tracks where many learned their craft. Yet Martinsville, with its concrete and asphalt surface, presents a challenge like no other short track they've raced on. The winner here receives one of the more iconic trophies in all of sports—a Ridgeway Grandfather Clock. Hendrick Motorsports teammates J...

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