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All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of The Teardown.

My name is Jeff Gluck, and I'm along with my co-worker Jordan Bianchi.

We are motorsports writers for the athletic, and today we're here to talk about the Martinsville

Speedway race.

Jordan is live at Martinsville Speedway. And man,

I don't know what we thought was going to happen, but I don't know if that was exactly what

people were predicting. Jordan, how's it going there? What's up? That's good. This was in a way,

it was kind of like traditional spring Martinsville.

Like it felt like the kind of the race we've seen the last few years with this car.

It wasn't much to it. It certainly wasn't anything like the Xfinity series race, though I don't think anyone would have expected that to be.

And it kind of felt like old times in a way because Denny Hamill was back in Victory Lane, celebrating and a track that he hasn't won on in 10

years, but he's had a lot of success at. Yeah. So why? Okay, so we talked about, okay, they

brought this new tire to Martinsville last fall seemed to be successful. And then, you know,

it seemed like, hey, we saw the tires falling

off today. The whole side of the car, the cars were all covered in tire rubber. But ultimately,

as you said, it was sort of the typical spring race where it seemed pretty hard to pass.

We heard Chase Elliott talking on the TV broadcast

afterward, the race talking about how he felt like once he lost control of the race in stage

two and wasn't able to pass Denny by the end of that stage, I think is what he said,

that that was pretty much the race in his mind. And we saw the top 50, or sorry, the top 10 with 50 to go,

except for Lugano, who had 42 lap fresher tires. It did not change one bit except for that. So,

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