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Tickets, Hotel & Transportation
All in One Package!
For only $595 You'll Receive:
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Martinsville 500 Sprint Cup
ticket in the Bill France Tower
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Kroger 250 NASCAR
Nationwide ticket
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Transportation from the
hotel to the track
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3 nights hotel
accommodations
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On-site staff for
assistance
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Welcome gifts and more!
Quantities are limited!
Visit
myRacetravel.com
or call 866-990-RACE (7223) to reserve your travel package
today! |
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Your Question For Clay Campbell:
Why are the turns concrete at Martinsville Speedway and the
straightaways asphalt? |
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Clay's Answer:
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Not long after
my grandfather (track founder H. Clay Earles) first paved
Martinsville Speedway in 1955, he began having problems
with the asphalt |
Clay Campbell, Track President |
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coming up in
the turns during the races. There was so much braking
coming into the turns and power coming off, the asphalt
would often pull up. At some point he visited a test track
that was concrete. It planted a seed. He figured the
concrete would not pull apart like asphalt. So, in 1976,
he reconstructed the bottom two lanes of the turns with
concrete. Some people laughed at him and said it wouldn’t
work…well, in over 30 years, we’ve only had to replace it
once.” |
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