NASCAR: Martinsville Speedway: What you need to know

Race: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series STP 500.

Distance: 500 laps, or 263 miles.

Where: Martinsville Speedway, a 0.526-mile, concrete and asphalt oval in Ridgeway, Virginia.

When: 2 p.m. Monday. (Note: Race day moved due to snow.)

TV: FS1.

Radio: MRN.

Last year’s winner: Brad Keselowski.

Worth mentioning: Martinsville is the shortest track run in the Cup Series.

Who’s Hot/Who’s Not

HOT

Martin Truex Jr.: His first win of 2018 also vaults him to the top of the leaderboard, where he should be a fixture the rest of the season.

Kyle Busch: No wins yet for him, but those will come soon if his three Top 5 finishes are to be trusted.

NOT

Bubba Wallace: That runner-up finish at Daytona is really looking like an outlier now, as Wallace sits all the way back at 19th in the standings.

Chase Elliott: This was supposed to be the year he made the leap, but ... 21st place overall? A 16th-place run in California? We might have to wait a little longer for his breakthrough.

Brendan Marks

This story was originally published March 22, 2018 at 1:27 PM with the headline "NASCAR: Martinsville Speedway: What you need to know."