The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) heads into the sixth race of the long Sprint Cup season having provided an exciting finale to the two-mile Auto Club Speedway in California and now adapts to the .526 mile Martinsville oval track in Virginia.  The banking hasn’t changed much going from 14 degrees to 12 degrees, but the distance will be defining.  Short-track racing has its own character. Some drivers and teams prefer short-tracks over superspeedways, some do better on the more common intermediate distances of a mile to mile and a half racetracks.  Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch have been successful on half-mile venues in recent years, but Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch are known to do ...

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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) heads into the sixth race of the long Sprint Cup season having provided an exciting finale to the two-mile Auto Club Speedway in California and now adapts to the .526 mile Martinsville oval track in Virginia.  The banking hasn’t changed much going from 14 degrees to 12 degrees, but the distance will be defining.  Short-track racing has its own character. Some drivers and teams prefer short-tracks over superspeedways, some do better on the more common intermediate distances of a mile to mile and a half racetracks.  Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch have been successful on half-mile venues in recent years, but Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch are known to do ...

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