1950-04 - NASCAR Race

Name of Race:	1950-04
Name of Track:	Martinsville Speedway
Date:	N/A

Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Martinsville, Virginia. At 0.526 miles in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series.

NASCAR Paperclip

The track was also one of the first paved "superspeedways" in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. The track is often referred to as paper clip-shaped and is banked only 12° in the turns. The combination of long straightaways and flat, narrow turns makes hard braking going into turns and smooth acceleration exiting turns a must.

Original Ownership

The track ownership was a joint venture of brothers Jim and Bill France, Jr., and H. Clay Earles, the majority owner, along with daughters Dorothy Campbell and Mary Weatherford, and Dorothy Campbell's children, Sarah Fain and Clay Campbell.

Grandfather Clock Trophy

Winners of Martinsville's Nextel Cup and Whelen Modified Tour events receive a longcase clock as a trophy instead of a regular trophy, a tip of the cap to the fame of the Martinsville furniture industry. One of the neat things one can see while watching a NASCAR race is a Norfolk Southern train running along the tracks outside the speedway, although the tracks were recently moved back 100 feet.

$192 Million Price Tag

Although sold for $192 million in 2004, the track continues to prosper under the new ownership of International Speedway Corporation. The track hosts two Nextel cup races, currently the DirecTV 500 in April and the Subway 500 in October, along with Busch, Craftsman Truck, and Late Model Stock Car races. The track had plans to add an additional 20,000 seats along the backstretch, boosting capacity to over 85,000 seats, but nothing more has been officially mentioned regarding this by track management since the sale of the track to ISC.

Courtesy of Wikipedia.

1950-04 NASCAR Race Results

Below are the race results for 1950-04, in order of finishing place.

Fin	Driver	Num	Start	Money	Laps	Status	Sponsor
1	Curtis Turner	41	0	$1,000	150	running	Eanes Motor Co.
2	Jim Paschal	79	0	$750	148	running	Al Wheatley
3	Lee Petty	42	0	$500	144	running	Petty Special
4	Glenn Dunnaway	49	0	$300	144	running	Glenn Dunnaway
6	Bill Long	31	0	$175	141	running
7	Donald Thomas	91	0	$150	141	running	Herb Thomas
8	Buck Baker	87	1	$125	139	running	Police Special
9	Bill Rexford	60	0	$100	138	running	Julian Buesink
10	Lloyd Moore	59	0	$75	137	running	Police Special
11	Bill Blair	2	0	$50	135	running	Sam Rice
12	Bob Collins	7	0	$50	133	wheel
13	Frank Boylan	212	0	$50	132	running
14	Herb Thomas	92	0	$50	131	spindle	Herb Thomas
16	Bob Dickson	293	0	$0	129	running
17	Bill Greever	14	0	$0	128	running
18	Al Gross	94	0	$0	125	running
20	Tim Flock	90	0	$0	97	rear end	Red Star Garage
22	Jack White	18	0	$0	65	engine
24	Buddy Helms	28	0	$0	36	engine	Buddy Helms
25	Bob Apperson	11	0	$0	14	engine	Bob Apperson