Fantasy NASCAR Picks for STP 500 at Martinsville

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will travel to Martinsville, Virginia, this week for the STP 500. Martinsville is one of the best race tracks on the schedule because it is similar to the tracks most of the drivers grew up racing on. The story last week at Auto Club Speedway was the drivers' ability to save their tires. This week, the story will be brakes. Teams must find horsepower down the front and backstretch but be able to roll through the corners without overheating the brakes. Short-track racing is always fun to watch because there is not much space on the track to make passes, so drivers occasionally will have to make space by moving others out of the way. It will be important for drivers to do this without tearing up their cars. Those ...

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