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Check out the Fanduel DFS driver scoring results for the 2021 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, highlighting points breakdowns, top performers, and fantasy stats from the Martinsville Speedway race.

Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500

Saturday, April 10th, 2021

Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, VA

  • 14 Ford
  • 5 Toyota
  • 18 Chevrolet

  • Martinsville Speedway
  • Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500
  • Pole Winner: Joey Logano
  • Age: 30
  • Team: No. 22 - Shell Pennzoil Ford
  • Owner: Team Penske
  • Crew Chief: Paul Wolfe
  • Start positions set by NASCAR's Performance Metrics Qualifying (PMQ).
  • Joey Logano won the Pole Award for the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 by having the highest total PMQ.
  • PMQ is a total number calculated on four performance metrics from the previous race:
  • 15% of the driver's fastest lap time position.
  • 25% of the driver's final race finish position.
  • 25% of the owner's final race position.
  • 35% of the Owner Points position.

  • Sunday, April 11th, 2021
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Late pass gives Martin Truex Jr. third NASCAR Cup victory at Martinsville

Martin Truex Jr. passed Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin on Lap 485 of Sunday's rain-delayed Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway and pulled away to win for the third time in his last four starts at the .526-mile short track.

The victory was Truex's second this season, ending a streak of seven straight different winners to start the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season. The driver of the No. 19 Toyota triumphed for the 29th time in his career and for the fifth time in his last 11-short track starts.

Truex finished 1.972 seconds ahead of runner-up Chase Elliott, who passed Hamlin for the second spot on Lap 495 of 500. Hamlin held third, 2.364 seconds behind, to post his seventh top-five finish (including four third-place results) in his eight starts this season.

"I can't believe we won again here, after not having the dominant car today, for sure," said Truex, who led for the first time when he beat Hamlin out of the pits on Lap 455 but surrendered the top spot to Hamlin's short-run speed after a restart on Lap 459. "It was a lot of fun there at the end racing with Denny.

"We raced clean, and we were able to come out on top. It's definitely difficult. We try to race hard, race clean. He was making it difficult on me—I was loose coming off the corners. His car got tight, so we kind of had opposite things going on, and it made it difficult to pass. We played nice. (Team owner) Coach (Joe Gibbs) will be happy. It'll be a cordial meeting tomorrow."

In a race that produced 15 cautions for 102 laps, the 42-lap green-flag run to the finish proved Hamlin's undoing. The driver No. 11 Toyota didn't have the long-run speed to hold off his teammate.

"It's just the cards we were dealt," said Hamlin, who led 276 laps. "We had a really good short-run car. We just didn't have a good long-run car. We just couldn't get our car to turn in the long run. That was the bugaboo of it, I guess you could say.

"We had a really fast car for 20 laps or so, and then it would just kind of go away."

Hendrick Motorsports teammates William Byron and Kyle Larson finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Joey Logano, Christopher Bell, Tyler Reddick, Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch completed the top 10.

Ryan Blaney won the first and second stages and led 157 laps, but his No. 12 Team Penske Ford dragged an air hose out of the pit box on his final stop, earning a penalty that sent him to the back of the field for the Lap 459 restart. He fought back for an 11th-place finish.

"We've had an issue the last three times we've been here with a car to win, so that's frustrating, but I'm real proud of the effort," Blaney said. "I just wish we could close one out."

A 15-car pileup worthy of a "Big One" at Talladega thinned the field of potential winners and blocked the track as effectively as the forlorn container ship stopped traffic in the Suez Canal. Then melee started with side-to-side contact between the cars of Chris Buescher and Kyle Busch and collected a baker's dozen of cars behind them—and setting the Chevrolets of Daniel Suarez and Ryan Preece on fire.

The wreck, which stopped the race under a red flag that lasted 21 minutes, 47 seconds, was the coup de grace for two-time Martinsville winner Brad Keselowski, who had sustained damage in two earlier accidents.

"It's just unfortunate that we got caught up in it," Keselowski said. "The track was blocked. I think I was just barely going to get stopped in time, and somebody clobbered me from behind and just tore us up. It's a bummer. I think we were really good.

"We drove up into the top five and lost the power-steering. I was able to manhandle it around the race track, but I couldn't get down pit road where you go to turn in your pit box… Just one of those compounding, frustrating short-track days, but we had decent speed."

The race was halted by rain after 42 laps on Saturday night and resumed under caution at 4 p.m. on Sunday.

  • Drivers Entered: 37
  • Laps Scheduled: 500
  • Margin of Victory: 01.972 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 3 Hours 54 Minutes 25 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 67.316
  • Cautions: 15 for 102 laps
  • Lead Changes: 18
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,976 (5.0 passes per green flag lap)

  • Martinsville Speedway
  • 72nd Annual Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500
  • Race Winner: Martin Truex Jr.
  • Age: 40
  • Team : No. 19 - Bass Pro Toyota
  • Owner: Coy Gibbs
  • Crew Chief: James Small
  • Martin Truex Jr. won the 72nd Annual Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, his 29th victory in 558 Cup Series races.
  • This is his second victory and fifth top-10 finish in 2021.
  • This is his third victory and 14th top-10 finish in 32 races at Martinsville Speedway.
  • Chase Elliott (second) posted his seventh top-10 finish in 13 races at Martinsville Speedway. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2021.
  • Denny Hamlin (third) posted his 22nd top-10 finish in 32 races at Martinsville Speedway.
  • Anthony Alfredo (26th) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • Denny Hamlin leads the point standings by 76 points over Martin Truex Jr..
Martin Truex Jr leads the field
Martinsville, Virginia - April 11, 2021 : Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #19 Bass Pro Toyota, leads the field during the NASCAR Cup Series Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway on April 11, 2021 in Martinsville, Virginia.
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Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway Fanduel results
FINISH & PLACE DIFFERENTIAL POINTS LAPS POINTS LAPS LED POINTS TOTAL POINTS
RNK SLRY DRIVER TEAM # MAKE DR ST FIN FIN PTS PD PTS LAPS LAP PTS LED % LED LED PTS TOT PTS
2 14,000 Martin Truex Jr Joe Gibbs Racing 19 Toyota 126.80 7 1 43 6.0 500 50.00 20 4.0 2.00 101.00
5 13,500 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports 9 Chevrolet 114.50 5 2 40 3.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 93.00
1 12,500 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing 11 Toyota 139.80 2 3 38 -1.0 500 50.00 276 55.2 27.60 114.60
9 9,700 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports 24 Chevrolet 107.50 3 4 37 -1.0 500 50.00 9 1.8 0.90 86.90
4 11,000 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports 5 Chevrolet 102.40 19 5 36 14.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 100.00
18 12,000 Joey Logano Team Penske 22 Ford 94.20 1 6 35 -5.0 500 50.00 6 1.2 0.60 80.60
3 9,200 Christopher Bell Joe Gibbs Racing 20 Toyota 95.70 23 7 34 16.0 500 50.00 9 1.8 0.90 100.90
8 8,000 Tyler Reddick Richard Childress Racing 8 Chevrolet 80.60 13 8 33 5.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 88.00
14 10,000 Kevin Harvick Stewart Haas Racing 4 Ford 80.10 9 9 32 0.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 82.00
13 10,500 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Toyota 92.50 12 10 31 2.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 83.00
7 11,500 Ryan Blaney Team Penske 12 Ford 114.90 4 11 30 -7.0 500 50.00 157 31.4 15.70 88.70
6 8,500 Matt DiBenedetto Wood Brothers Racing 21 Ford 73.00 22 12 29 10.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 89.00
19 5,200 Chris Buescher RFK Racing 17 Ford 72.70 15 13 28 2.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 80.00
16 7,300 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing 3 Chevrolet 79.70 18 14 27 4.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 81.00
25 4,500 Ricky Stenhouse Jr JTG Daugherty Racing 47 Chevrolet 65.20 6 15 26 -9.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 67.00
10 7,000 Bubba Wallace 23XI Racing 23 Toyota 70.60 25 16 25 9.0 500 50.00 23 4.6 2.30 86.30
11 3,500 Ross Chastain Chip Ganassi Racing 42 Chevrolet 55.00 27 17 24 10.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 84.00
16 6,000 Cole Custer Stewart Haas Racing 41 Ford 54.00 26 18 23 8.0 500 50.00 0 0.0 0.00 81.00
28 6,500 Ryan Newman RFK Racing 6 Ford 66.80 8 19 22 -11.0 499 49.90 0 0.0 0.00 60.90
15 7,700 Aric Almirola Stewart Haas Racing 10 Ford 59.30 31 20 21 11.0 499 49.90 0 0.0 0.00 81.90
23 9,000 Kurt Busch Chip Ganassi Racing 1 Chevrolet 68.00 21 21 20 0.0 498 49.80 0 0.0 0.00 69.80
12 2,000 James Davison Rick Ware Racing 15 Chevrolet 34.00 37 22 19 15.0 494 49.40 0 0.0 0.00 83.40
20 2,500 Josh Bilicki Rick Ware Racing 52 Ford 36.00 33 23 18 10.0 493 49.30 0 0.0 0.00 77.30
22 2,500 Quin Houff StarCom Racing 00 Chevrolet 32.50 29 24 17 5.0 493 49.30 0 0.0 0.00 71.30
24 2,000 JJ Yeley Rick Ware Racing 53 Chevrolet 34.00 28 25 16 3.0 492 49.20 0 0.0 0.00 68.20
21 3,000 Anthony Alfredo Front Row Motorsports 38 Ford 42.30 35 26 15 9.0 492 49.20 0 0.0 0.00 73.20
29 5,700 Chase Briscoe Stewart Haas Racing 14 Ford 41.70 24 27 14 -3.0 491 49.10 0 0.0 0.00 60.10
27 2,000 Cody Ware Rick Ware Racing 51 Chevrolet 33.80 32 28 13 4.0 490 49.00 0 0.0 0.00 66.00
26 2,500 BJ McLeod Live Fast Motorsports 78 Ford 37.60 36 29 12 7.0 478 47.80 0 0.0 0.00 66.80
32 5,000 Erik Jones Richard Petty Motorsports 43 Chevrolet 48.00 16 30 11 -14.0 403 40.30 0 0.0 0.00 37.30
33 3,500 Michael McDowell Front Row Motorsports 34 Ford 42.70 14 31 10 -17.0 387 38.70 0 0.0 0.00 31.70
35 5,000 Daniel Suarez Trackhouse Racing 99 Chevrolet 58.10 11 32 9 -21.0 386 38.60 0 0.0 0.00 26.60
37 13,000 Brad Keselowski Team Penske 2 Ford 76.80 10 33 8 -23.0 385 38.50 0 0.0 0.00 23.50
34 9,500 Alex Bowman Hendrick Motorsports 48 Chevrolet 80.30 20 34 7 -14.0 384 38.40 0 0.0 0.00 31.40
30 3,500 Justin Haley Spire Motorsports 77 Chevrolet 37.30 30 35 6 -5.0 383 38.30 0 0.0 0.00 39.30
36 4,000 Ryan Preece JTG Daugherty Racing 37 Chevrolet 68.50 17 36 5 -19.0 382 38.20 0 0.0 0.00 24.20
31 3,000 Corey Lajoie Spire Motorsports 7 Chevrolet 42.30 34 37 4 -3.0 374 37.40 0 0.0 0.00 38.40