NASCAR Cup Series: Martinsville restarting lineup
By Asher Fair
Take a look at the order in which the drivers are set to restart the NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway following Saturday’s postponement.
Just like Friday night’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway, the Cook Out 250, Saturday night’s Cup Series race at the track, the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, got underway after a slight rain delay.
And just like Friday night’s race, Saturday night’s race ended up being red-flagged due to more rain, and it ended up being postponed until Sunday afternoon.
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Just 91 of the 250 laps of the Xfinity Series race had been completed around the four-turn, 0.526-mile (0.847-kilometer) oval in Ridgeway, Virginia when the red flag flew, and just 42 of the 500 laps of the Cup Series race had been completed when the red flag flew.
The former is scheduled to resume today at 12:00 p.m. ET, and the latter is scheduled to resume today at 4:00 p.m. ET.
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The weather forecast looks much better this afternoon than it did for Friday evening and Saturday evening.
An incident involving Rick Ware Racing teammates Cody Ware and James Davison brought out the Cup Series race’s first caution flag period, and the rains came just moments later, leading to the red flag. That sequence of events led to a discussion about Darrell Waltrip’s famous “vortex theory” regarding the cars going in circles around the track to effectively keep the rain away.
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin, who started the race on the front row alongside polesitter Joey Logano of Team Penske, took the lead on lap four and is still the leader ahead of Logano in second place following lap 42.
Here is the full restarting order for the 2021 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway.
Restarting Lineup
1st – Denny Hamlin
2nd – Joey Logano
3rd – Ryan Blaney
4th – Martin Truex Jr.
5th – Chase Elliott
6th – William Byron
7th – Brad Keselowski
8th – Kyle Busch
9th – Kevin Harvick
10th – Kyle Larson
11th – Ryan Preece
12th – Alex Bowman
13th – Austin Dillon
14th – Chris Buescher
15th – Matt DiBenedetto
16th – Erik Jones
17th – Bubba Wallace
18th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
19th – Kurt Busch
20th – Ryan Newman
21st – Aric Almirola
22nd – Christopher Bell
23rd – Tyler Reddick
24th – Ross Chastain
25th – Daniel Suarez
26th – Cole Custer
27th – Chase Briscoe
28th – Michael McDowell
29th – Corey LaJoie
30th – Anthony Alfredo
31st – Justin Haley
32nd – J.J. Yeley
33rd – B.J. McLeod
34th – Josh Bilicki
35th – Cody Ware
36th – Quin Houff
37th – James Davison
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Tune in to Fox Sports 1 at 4:00 p.m. ET for the resumption of the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 live from Martinsville Speedway.