Every year, one race is circled on the calendar of every Late Model Stock competitor: the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 at Martinsville Speedway.
Since the mid-1980s, the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 has been one of the proudest short track traditions in the Commonwealth of Virginia and across the Southeast. Each running regularly attracts approximately 80 entries, all seeking to claim a Grandfather clock at the end of 200 laps.
The list of ValleyStar Credit Union 300 winners consists of an elite group of drivers. Five-time NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series champion Philip Morris leads everyone with three wins, with other notable victors including Josh Berry, Timothy Peters, Lee Pulliam, Dennis Setzer, Mike Skinner and Mark Martin.
Many of the best Late Model Stock drivers around the region are set to make the trip to Martinsville, Virginia, this weekend with the goal of adding their name into the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 record books.
Below is everything to know about the 2024 ValleyStar Credit Union 300.
What TV channel is the 2024 ValleyStar Credit Union 300 on?
All the on-track action for the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 at Martinsville Speedway can be viewed live on FloRacing, the official streaming home for all NASCAR Regional properties.
The event will not be shown on a television network.
Below is the complete schedule for FloRacing’s coverage of the ValleyStar Credit Union 300.
| Date | Event | Start time | How to watch |
| Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 | ValleyStar Credit Union 300 | 12:30 p.m. ET | FloRacing |
Complete schedule for the 2024 ValleyStar Credit Union 300
All on-track activity for this year’s ValleyStar Credit Union 300 will take place on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024.
The event is headlined by the 200-lap feature for Late Model Stocks, with four 25-lap qualifying races setting the field for the main event.
Below is the complete schedule at Martinsville Speedway (all times ET).
- Saturday, Sept. 28
| Time | Event |
| 10-11:30 a.m. | Final Practice |
| 12:30 p.m. | Qualifying |
| 3 p.m. | Qualifying Races |
| 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Pre-Race Experience/Ceremonies |
| 6:35 p.m. | Driver Introductions |
| 7 p.m. | ValleyStar Credit Union 300 |
Race format
The field for Saturday’s ValleyStar Credit Union 300 will be set by a combination of qualifying and the four 25-lap heat races. Competitors will first qualify on Saturday afternoon, with the fastest qualifier earning a $5,000 bonus. No competitors will lock into the 200-lap feature through qualifying.
Starting positions for the 40-car field are determined at the end of the heats. The top 10 finishers in each qualifying race will secure a place in the ValleyStar Credit Union 300. There will not be a last chance qualifier.
The 200-lap feature race includes three segments: 100 laps, 75 laps and 25 laps. Each segment winner receives a $1,000 bonus.
In the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 feature, the leader of each lap receives $25, with $5,000 available in the laps led bonus pool. If the race extends beyond the schedule distance, there will be unlimited attempts at a green-white-checkered finish. The winner also takes home a $32,000 paycheck to go along with the grandfather clock.
ValleyStar Credit Union 300 entry list
The current entry list for the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 features 81 cars.
Headlining the talented group of drivers is last year’s winner Trevor Ward. A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the blue-collar competitor earned his first Grandfather clock after overtaking and fending off Landon Huffman in a heated battle to the checkered flag.
Huffman is returning to Martinsville this weekend for an opportunity at redemption following his near miss in 2023. This time Huffman will pilot the No. 57 for Justin Carroll, a Late Model Stock veteran with four ValleyStar Credit Union 300 top 10s in five starts as a driver.
Piloting the No. 22 AutosByNelson.com Toyota Huffman nearly took to Victory Lane in 2023 is NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series points leader Connor Hall. The 2024 season has seen Hall amass 18 victories, yet he is still searching for his maiden ValleyStar Credit Union 300 triumph.
Hall also currently leads the Virginia Late Model Triple Crown standings with an average finish of 1.5. He drove from the rear of the 38-car field to win South Boston Speedway’s Thunder Road Harley-Davidson 200 before obtaining a runner-up finish to Brenden Queen in the Hampton Heat at Langley Speedway.
Plenty of drivers remain within striking distance of Hall’s Virginia Triple Crown lead. The closest to him is veteran Peyton Sellers, who is only two years removed from picking up his first ValleyStar Credit Union 300 victory.
Everyone in the field will have to contest two-time ValleyStar Credit Union 300 winner Lee Pulliam in his first Late Model Stock event since 2020. Pulliam is piloting the No. 03 Toyota normally driven by Queen, who is competing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at Kansas Speedway this weekend.
Other entries for the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 include JR Motorsports’ Carson Kvapil, Bobby McCarty, Brent Crews, Timothy Peters, Landon Pembelton, Conner Jones and Doug Barnes Jr., among others.
Below is the complete entry list for the 2024 ValleyStar Credit Union 300.
| Car No. | Driver |
| 00 | Chase Burrow |
| 01 | G.R. Waldrop |
| 03 | Lee Pulliam |
| 04 | Ronnie Bassett Jr. |
| 05 | Connor Lee Branch |
| 07 | Riley Neal |
| 0 | Bruce Anderson |
| 0A | Keith Helton |
| 1 | Jamie York |
| 1A | Andrew Grady |
| 1B | Clay Jones |
| 2 | Ryan Wilson |
| 2A | Brandon Pierce |
| 2B | Matt Waltz |
| 3 | Trey Williams |
| 4 | Kyle Dudley |
| 4A | Parker Eatmon |
| 5 | Dexter Canipe Jr. |
| 5A | Carter Langley |
| 5B | Jake Vuncannon |
| 6 | Bobby McCarty |
| 7 | Dylan Ward |
| 7B | Blayne Harrison |
| 7C | Tristan McKee |
| 7D | Karl Budzevski |
| 8 | Thomas Scott |
| 8A | Carson Kvapil |
| 11 | Buddy Isles Jr. |
| 12 | Jake Crum |
| 14 | Jared Fryar |
| 15 | Tony Housman |
| 15A | Camden Gullie |
| 15B | Ryan Millington |
| 16 | Cody Kelley |
| 17 | Jason Myers |
| 17A | Daniel Silvestri |
| 17B | Stacy Puryear |
| 17C | Landin Nester |
| 18 | Chandler Sherman |
| 18A | Jason York |
| 18B | Anthony Adams |
| 19 | Jessica Cann |
| 22 | Connor Hall |
| 23 | Kade Brown |
| 23A | Zachary Dabbs |
| 25 | Derrick Lancaster |
| 25A | Jacob Borst |
| 26 | Peyton Sellers |
| 28 | Dustin Storm |
| 28A | Landon S. Huffman |
| 29 | Brent Crews |
| 29A | Stuart Crews |
| 31 | Chase Robertson |
| 33 | Dillon Harville |
| 35 | Steve Zacharias |
| 40 | Taylor Satterfield |
| 41 | Davey Callihan |
| 42 | Chris Horton Jr. |
| 44 | Conner Jones |
| 44A | Dylan Newsome |
| 45 | Mason Diaz |
| 50 | Ross ‘Boo Boo’ Dalton |
| 51m | Ryan Matthews |
| 51A | Timothy Peters |
| 55 | Landon Pembelton |
| 55A | Mark Wertz |
| 57 | Landon Huffman |
| 61 | Justin Hicks |
| 71 | Aaron Donnelly |
| 73 | Jimmy Mullins |
| 74 | Robert Arch |
| 77 | Trevor Ward |
| 77A | Blake Stallings |
| 77B | Treyten Lapcevich |
| 87 | Mike Looney |
| 88 | Brad Housewright |
| 88A | Doug Barnes Jr. |
| 95 | Jacob Heafner |
| 95A | Sam Yarbrough |
| 99 | Craig Eastep |
| 99A | Austin Somero |