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Martinsville Fantasy Forecast

MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY
Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500
Sunday, March 28, 2010 in Martinsville, VA

This Sunday, Cup drivers head to Martinsville, Virginia, to a track with a 60+year history that exudes the very heart and soul of NASCAR. Martinsville Speedway represents everything NASCAR was and everything NASCAR is today. They started with 750 seats in 1947. Today there are 65,000 seats encircling a 12-degree, .526-mile paperclip-shaped oval. Its long straightaways and flat, narrow turns makes hard braking going into turns and smooth acceleration exiting turns a must.

The following drivers have the best chance of pulling out a top finish this weekend. My top twenty-five list utilizes an exclusive formula I’ve developed over years of analyzing races. It factors in drivers’ history at this track and similar tracks, key driver stats from this venue, and the ever-powerful momentum. Every driver/team will have the occasional “off” race. They can have a rough outing or two without being unduly harmed in the rankings. If they generally run in the top half of the field, they’ll find themselves moving up the list.

TOP TWENTYFIVE
1) 48 Jimmie Johnson
2) 11 Denny Hamlin
3) 24 Jeff Gordon
4) 5 Mark Martin
5) 18 Kyle Busch
6) 31 Jeff Burton
7) 33 Clint Bowyer
8) 29 Kevin Harvick
9) 14 Tony Stewart
10) 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
11) 39 Ryan Newman
12) 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
13) 17 Matt Kenseth
14) 2 Kurt Busch
15) 16 Greg Biffle
16) 1 Jamie McMurray
17) 99 Carl Edwards
18) 47 Marcos Ambrose
19) 83 Brian Vickers
20) 00 David Reutimann
21) 9 Kasey Kahne
22) 20 Joey Logano
23) 43 A.J. Allmendinger
24) 82 Scott Speed
25) 98 Paul Menard

MARTINSVILLE DRIVER STATS

Clint Bowyer (No. 33 BB&T Chevrolet)

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