Sprint Cup Series
On Deck: After the first open week in the 2013 schedule, the NSCS heads to Martinsville Speedway, the series’ shortest track. The trio of Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin set up a monopoly on Victory Lane at Martinsville, winning 12 of 13 races there from 2004-2010. Then, for a short time, they were shut out. Kevin Harvick, Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman won in 2011 and the spring of 2012, before Johnson righted the ship in last year’s Chase Martinsville race. … Johnson once had a streak of 17 straight top-10 finishes at Martinsville (2002-2010), one short of the all-time record. … Not to be outmatched, Gordon had a 15-race Martinsville top-10 streak of his own, from 2003-2010. That included a span of 11 consecutive top fives. … There have been five different winners over the first five races in 2013, only the second time that’s happened in the past eight seasons. It last happened in 2011, when there were 18 different winners over the course of the entire season, one short of the all-time record.
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