Denny Hamlin Wraps Up Long Weekend In Martinsville With Incredible Victory

Gordon had inherited the lead when the top two cars, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch, elected to pit with less than 10 laps remaining.

Had Gordon taken the white flag, he would have won the race (it would have finished under caution). But since he was juuuuust short, Hamlin got another two laps to pull off his incredible comeback and win the race.

Denny Hamlin had the race in the bag. Then he gave it away.

And then, in one of the more remarkable comebacks in recent memory, Hamlin rallied for an incredible win.

We’re going to do things a little differently today, since most of you are stuck at work and can’t see the race.

This blog will be continuously refreshed and updated with live in-race action. At the same time, feel free to chat below about the race and ask any questions about how your driver is doing.

Forecasters are calling for rain for most of the day today – and Monday isn’t looking much better.

UPDATE: The Martinsville race has been postponed until noon on Monday – but the forecast at the time is still calling for scattered showers. If the race gets started, it will most likely be a stop-and-go affair. Will the weather win again tomorrow?

When Jimmie Johnson sat in victory lane last week on the rooftop of a building in the Bristol infield, he heard Kurt Busch’s postrace interview boom over the track’s public address system.

Busch was upset that he – and everyone else – had just lost to Johnson. Again. Anybody but the 48, Busch said.

Tony Stewart slammed into the back of Travis Kvapil as the first Sprint Cup practice came to a close on Friday morning, damaging the left rear of Kvapil’s No. 34 car.

Stewart said “I wish I knew the answer” to why the incident occurred and said all he saw was when Kvapil “checked up in front of us.”

Kyle Busch hasn’t had the finishes he hoped for so far this year. His ninth-place run at Bristol last week was just his first top 10 of the entire season, and he’s averaging a 15th-place finish.

That’s not the Busch people expected to see after previous crew chief Steve Addington was dumped in favor of former Nationwide crew chief Dave Rogers.

Jimmie Johnson in victory lane at Martinsville has become a tradition almost as familiar as the speedway’s famous hot dogs and the grandfather clock it awards to the race winner.

Johnson has been simply dominant at the paperclip-shaped Virginia short track, winning five of the last seven races here.