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The Tums QuikPak 500 is a NASCAR

NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
Sprint Cup Series stock car race

Stock car racing

Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain and Brazil. Traditionally, races are run on oval track racing measuring approximately ? mile to 2.66 miles length, but are also raced on road courses....
held at the Martinsville Speedway

Martinsville Speedway

Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville, Virginia....
in Martinsville

Martinsville, Virginia

Martinsville is an independent city surrounded by and the county seat of Henry County, Virginia, Virginia, United States. The population was 15,416 at the United States Census, 2000....
, Virginia

Virginia

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. It is currently the sixth race in the ten race Chase for the Sprint Cup. Since 2007, the race has been carried on ABC.

The 1:30 p.m. eastern start time is one of the earliest starts in the Chase. The track does not have lights, and shadows cast heavily over the facility in mid-October, when the race has been held since 2001.

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The Tums QuikPak 500 is a NASCAR

NASCAR

Stock car racing

Martinsville Speedway

Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville, Virginia....
in Martinsville

Martinsville, Virginia

Virginia

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Traditionally, the winner of this race receives a custom-built grandfather clock.

Past winners

Tums QuikPak 500

2008
2008 TUMS QuikPak 500

The 2008 TUMS QuikPak 500, was the thirty-second race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and started off the second half of the 2008 Chase for the Sprint Cup....
- Jimmie Johnson
Jimmie Johnson

Jimmie Kenneth Johnson is a current NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race car driver who drives the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet Impala Super Sport co-owned by Rick Hendrick and his teammate Jeff Gordon and operated by Hendrick Motorsports....
(504 laps due to green-white-checker finish
Green-white-checker finish

The green-white-checker finish is a rule implemented into many levels of automobile racing in the United States. When the race would otherwise end during a yellow-flag "caution" condition , this rule gives the field an attempt to finish the race under a green-flag, "racing" condition....
)

Subway 500

2007
2007 Subway 500

The 2007 Subway 500, the 32nd race of the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the sixth race in the 2007 Chase for the NEXTEL Cup, ran on Sunday, October 21st, 2007, at Martinsville Speedway, located on the outskirts of Martinsville, Virginia....
- Jimmie Johnson
Jimmie Johnson

Jimmie Kenneth Johnson is a current NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race car driver who drives the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet Impala Super Sport co-owned by Rick Hendrick and his teammate Jeff Gordon and operated by Hendrick Motorsports....
2006 - Jimmie Johnson
2005 - Jeff Gordon
Jeff Gordon

Jeffery Michael Gordon is a professional United States of America race car driver. He was born in Vallejo, California, raised in Pittsboro, Indiana, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina....
2004 - Jimmie Johnson
2003 - Jeff Gordon

Old Dominion 500

2002 - Kurt Busch
Kurt Busch

Kurt Thomas Busch is a professional United States race car driver. He drives the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series....
2001 - Ricky Craven
Ricky Craven

Richard Allen Craven is a former NASCAR driver. He last drove in the Sprint Cup in 2004 and raced in the Craftsman Truck Series in 2005. He does not have a racing job at this time....
(postponed one day due to rain)

NAPA Autocare 500

2000 - Tony Stewart
Tony Stewart

Anthony Wayne Stewart is an American race car driver/car owner/entrepreneur, in NASCAR's Sprint Cup . During his career he has won championships in the Winston Cup, Nextel Cup and IndyCar Series....
1999 - Jeff Gordon
1998 - Ricky Rudd
Ricky Rudd

Ricky Rudd is a retired American NASCAR driver. He is the uncle of actor Skeet Ulrich and Nationwide Series driver Jason Rudd. Rudd is tied with Rusty Wallace for the longest streak of consecutive seasons with a victory, his lasting from 1983 to 1998....

Hanes 500

1997 - Jeff Burton
Jeff Burton

Jeffrey Brian Burton also sometimes referred to as "JB" is a Sprint Cup Series driver. He drives the #31 Caterpillar Inc. Chevrolet Impala for Richard Childress Racing....
1996 - Jeff Gordon

Goody's 500

1995 - Dale Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt

Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. was an American race car driver, best known for his career driving stock cars in NASCAR's Winston Cup. Earnhardt had four children, Kerry Earnhardt, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and Taylor Earnhardt....
1994 - Rusty Wallace
Rusty Wallace

Russell William "Rusty" Wallace is a former NASCAR champion, NASCAR Nationwide Series car owner, and television broadcaster with NASCAR on ESPN and ESPN on ABC and co-host of NASCAR Angels....
1993 - Ernie Irvan
Ernie Irvan

Virgil Earnest Irvan, more commonly known as Ernie Irvan, is a former race driver in NASCAR. He is best remembered for his comeback after a serious head injury at Michigan International Speedway which earned him numerous awards and respect from his fellow drivers....
1992 - Geoff Bodine
Geoff Bodine

Geoffrey Bodine is the oldest of the three Bodine brothers who are all NASCAR drivers. Bodine currently lives in Cornelius, North Carolina, North Carolina....
1991 - Harry Gant
Harry Gant

Harry Phil Gant is a retired American racecar driver best known for driving the number 33 Skoal Bandits car on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit....
1990 - Geoff Bodine
1989 - Darrell Waltrip
Darrell Waltrip

Darrell Lee Waltrip is a three-time former NASCAR Championship champion, the 1989 Daytona 500 winner, current television race commentator with Fox Broadcasting Company and columnist at Foxsports.com....
1988 - Darrell Waltrip
1987 - Darrell Waltrip
1986 - Rusty Wallace
1985 - Dale Earnhardt
1984 - Darrell Waltrip
1983 - Ricky Rudd

Old Dominion 500

1982 - Darrell Waltrip
1981 - Darrell Waltrip
1980 - Dale Earnhardt
1979 - Buddy Baker
Buddy Baker

Elzie Wylie Baker, Jr. is a former United States NASCAR racecar driver....
1978 - Cale Yarborough
Cale Yarborough

William Caleb Yarborough , is a businessman and former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner. He is the one of only two drivers in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships, before Jimmie Johnson in 2006-2008....
1977 - Cale Yarborough
1976 - Cale Yarborough (340 laps due to rain)
1975 - Dave Marcis
Dave Marcis

Dave Marcis was a driver on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit from 1968 until 2002. Marcis won five times over this tenure, twice at Richmond International Raceway, including his final win in 1982....
1974 - Earl Ross
Earl Ross

Earl Ross is a Canadian race car driver who competed from 1973 to 1976. He was known for being the only non-American driver to have won a NASCAR Winston Cup race before Juan Pablo Montoya won the 2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350....
1973 - Richard Petty
Richard Petty

Richard Lee Petty is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the Winston Cup Series. "The King", as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the Nascar Championship seven times , winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 rac...
(480 laps due to rain)
1972 - Richard Petty
1971 - Bobby Isaac
Bobby Isaac

Bobby Isaac is a former NASCAR Grand National Series champion....
1970 - Richard Petty
1969 - Richard Petty
1968 - Richard Petty
1967 - Richard Petty
1966 - Fred Lorenzen
Fred Lorenzen

Fred Lorenzen , is a former NASCAR driver. He first caught the car bug young, and had built his first car at the age of 13. After graduating from high school, he began racing modifieds and late models, and made his NASCAR debut in 1956 at Langhorne Speedway, finishing 26th after suffering a broken fuel pump, winning $25....
1965 - Junior Johnson
Junior Johnson

Robert Glen Johnson, Jr. , known as Junior Johnson, was a moonshiner in the rural South who became one of the early superstars of NASCAR in the 1950s and 1960s....
1964 - Fred Lorenzen
1963 - Fred Lorenzen
1962 - Nelson Stacy
1961 - Joe Weatherly
Joe Weatherly

Joe Weatherly was a two-time NASCAR championship driver....
1960 - Rex White
Rex White

Rex White is a former NASCAR champion. He began racing in 1956, grabbing fourteen top-ten finishes. After a part-time run in 1957, White won twice the next year....
1959 - Rex White
1958 - Fireball Roberts
Fireball Roberts

Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, Jr. was one of the pioneering auto racing drivers of NASCAR....
1957 - Bob Welborn
Bob Welborn

Robert "Bob" Joe Welborn of Denton, North Carolina is a former NASCAR Grand National driver. He was named to NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers list in 1998....
1956 - Jack Smith
Jack Smith (NASCAR)

Jack Smith , was a NASCAR driver....

Unnamed/Unknown

1955 - Speedy Thompson
Speedy Thompson

Alfred "Speedy" Thompson was a NASCAR pioneer and driver in the Nextel Cup [now Sprint Cup] series from 1950 to 1971, capturing 20 wins along the way....
1954 - Lee Petty
Lee Petty

Lee Arnold Petty was an American stock car driver in the 1950s and 60s. He was one of the pioneers of NASCAR, and one of its first superstars....
1953 - Jim Paschal
Jim Paschal

James Roy "Jim" Paschal, Jr. was a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver. He won twenty-five races and twelve poles over his career.External links...
1952 - Herb Thomas
Herb Thomas

----Herbert Watson Thomas was a NASCAR pioneer who was one of the series' most successful drivers in the 1950s....
1951 - Frank Mundy
1950 - Herb Thomas