2020 Nascar - Martinsville - Rain Delayed - The Race To 4

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I blew it! For some reason I thought Trucks and X-Men would be racing today and Cup tomorrow. Well, Trucks raced last night and the final drivers who will go after the Truck championship crown next week are last nights winner Grant Enfinger, Brent Moffit, Sheldon Greed and rookie Zane Smith. Reading about race it sounds like it was a good race.

The final 4 X-Men and Cup drivers are on the line. In Cup, only Joey has clinched a spot with a win at Kansas and TWT's Texas win didn't help the playoff drivers and 7 drivers looking will be desperate to win or gain points to move above the cut line. Weather shouldn't play a part of the Cup race - Today is good and rain overnight should clear by late morning and track drying should be done by the 2 o'clock start time. No more Texas size rain delays!

From MRN, the rest of the weekend schedule;

Martinsville Schedule of Events​

All Times Eastern

Saturday, October 31
Radio Pre-Race: 3:00 p.m. (MRN)
Xfinity Series Draft Top 250: 3:30 p.m. (MRN/NBC)
Xfinity Stages: 60 / 120 / 250


Sunday, November 1
Radio Pre-Race: 1:00 p.m. (MRN)
TV Pre-Race: 1:30 p.m. (NBC)
Cup Series Xfinity 500: 2:00 p.m. (MRN/NBC)
Cup Stages: 130 / 260 / 500



News and Notes
  • The most shocking thing over the last week was Truex having his spoiler confiscated during Texas pre-race inspection and getting docked 20 points. Those twenty points makes winning tomorrow almost a neccessity to advance from 53 points below the cut line, ahead of Busch1 sitting 98 points below the ax. Elliott and Bowman are both 41 below.
  • Keso is on the pole and Truex will start 2nd.
  • TV ratings - This should be fun! Sunday started with 1.82M viewers and 4 days later ended with 1.2M viewers. So over 600,000 fans tired of waiting or couldn't take more time off from work.

iBoats Fantasy Live
  • justkiddin 5 is coming on strong with back to back wins adding to his 3 regular season wins - 5 total. Congrats, JK5. 🏆
  • FlaCowboy is sitting with an 88 point lead over justkiddin 5 on the overall leader board with 2 races to go.
  • the iFL roster locks at 2:06 EST or is that DST??????????????

Good luck, stay safe and set your clocks back tonight for an extra hour of sleep,

Humpty
 

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The X-Race waved off and stopped 3 laps later with a yellow for Gaulding stoppin on track.

Back to green and Cindric leads.
 

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Cindric has led all 25 laps to the competition caution.
 

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Cindric continues to lead after the comp. caution.

Been some rubbin' going on with the playoff drivers. It will get worse as the end of the race nears.

Caution a 2nd time for Gaulding, a spin this time.
 

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Gragson and Cindric battle for the lead on the restart, Gragson finally takes the lead. Then Burton goes after Gragson with 7 to go in the heat.
 

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Two cars stayed out, the rest pit. HBurton first out of the pits. HBurton takes the lead.
 

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Caution again for a car (99) and getting hit by a car behind him. 45 laps to go in the 2nd heat.
 

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Red flag for clean up. Mud on the track from the wreck or avoiding the wreck.
 

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HBurton back in front. These short tracks are hard to stay on top of things.
 

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Mills car bursts into flame under the hood and back behind the car. 14 to go.
 

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Caution for the #74 hitting the wall and killing the rt. front suspension.

Up front it's The Dinger and HBurton. Out of the pits it's Burton and then The Dinger. 65 laps to go.
 

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Burton and The Dinger are running side by side after the restart - Lap after lap.
 
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