Martinsville Speedway
Martinsville Speedway (0.526 miles, short track, 2x 180-degree turns) in Martinsville, Virginia
The Martinsville Speedway (1947), according to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1909) and the Richmond International Raceway (1946), the third-oldest track in the current Cup calendar, before Darlington (1950). The oval is known for its various track surfaces, which received its last renovation in 2004: The long straight road and the upper halves of the turns are paved, while the bottom two lanes in the curves have a concrete surface. The banking is 12 degrees and is thus for a short track or a NASCAR track is not necessarily very small when you consider that Pocono and Phoenix, for example, have a partially reduced superelevation, although they are longer. The 1.5-mile Auto Club Speedway is moving at 14 ° in this category. Only when the track length suggests the oval all the other tracks on the calendar: 0.526 miles is equivalent to 847 meters and they are amazing 11m less than one lap at Bristol Motor Speedway in length.
Important in Martinsville are mainly the brakes, which are in the first 300-400 rounds but should preserve extreme. 500 rounds at full capacity and hold the red-hot plates of later, because there are at least 1000 to complete stop. Who does not want to appear after 400 laps into the void, should choose the right strategy for a ride through the tight turns: early on the gas going to let the car roll with as much speed through the turn brought along without you stand on the gas and then briefly after the peak on the gas, the extent permitted by the grip, full press to the bottom plate. This strategy is generally "roll through the center" and the TV coverage you get to hear that term very often. All this implies the need first to suffer from a lot of mechanical grip, not to be in the turns while taxiing off the track and in no corner exit oversteer. Secondly, the engine must have a high torque to the output curve with a lot of speed to take on the straights; eighth best times on the mote that is when accelerating and braking much up and down moves. The rest of the aerodynamics plays unlike in Charlotte, Martinsville no greater role.
