Drivers’ starting positions for the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 (rescheduled for 4 p.m. ET Sunday; FS1, TSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) were based on four factors:
Driver’s finishing position from the previous race (25 percent) Car owner’s finishing position from the previous race (25 percent) Team owner points ranking (35 percent) Fastest lap from the previous race (15 percent)
Below is the starting lineup for the NASCAR race on the 0.526-mile track at Martinsville, which was set without qualifying.
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Who won the pole for the NASCAR race at Martinsville?
Joey Logano led the field for the short-track night race at Martinsville, which turned in an afternoon race because of rain, based on the mathematical formula. Logano is coming off a win in the rain-delayed Food City Dirt Race at Bristol on March 29. Series points leader Denny Hamlin, who lost a late duel with Logano and finished third in that race, was assigned the second starting position.
Hamlin leads second-place driver Logano by 58 points in the standings despite having not won a race this year. Hamlin leads the series with six top-five finishes in the season’s first seven races. He is tied for the series lead with three stage wins.
The rest of the top 10 starters: William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Martin Truex Jr., Ryan Newman, Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski.
NASCAR starting lineup at Martinsville
The starting lineup for this weekend’s race at Martinsville Speedway was determined through a mathematical formula NASCAR adopted late in the 2020 season. The formula produced this starting lineup for the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500:
