It only took "Six-Time" five races to pick up two wins, and, if his performance thus far is any indiaction, he certainly won't be stopping at just two. Oh, and guess who the current all-time winner is at Martinsville? Bingo.
Here's one driver who is certainly glad to be leaving California, but Martinsville might not offer him much respite. "Rowdy" has never won at "The Paperclip."
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One hundred and forty two laps led -- en route to a second-place finish. At some point, all of these "close-but-no-cigar" finishes are going to get to Harvick, where he'll either collapse or run off one heck of a winning streak. We'd bet on the latter.
Coming off a great run at Auto Club, the Virginia native Hamlin is also the defending winner of the spring Martinsville race.
Logano certainly isn't making many friends on the race track -- but that's not the point of racing. Good finishes and wins are, and he'll pick up plenty of those in 2016.
Several top-notch drivers just seem to not have a handle on Martinsville, a difficult track. Count Edwards (zero wins, no top-10s since 2011) among them.
Three of Keselowski's last four races at Martinsville resulted in finishes of 38th, 31st and 32nd. The other, in last year's spring race, was a runner-up result.
After a tough -- but in the end, rewarding -- effort at Auto Club, Earnhardt will look for his second win at Martinsville. You know what goes great with a grandfather clock? Another one.
Without knowing Elliott's age and rookie status, one might think he was a veteran running in the top three late at Auto Club. This won't be the last time this season he'll do that, and it could come as soon as Martinsville, where he'll make his second Cup start.
The No. 41 group never got things together at any point during Auto Club weekend, and seemed to lose any of the speed it had in the season's first four races. That may continue at Martinsville, where the vet has only five top-10s -- in 31 starts.
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Truex will certainly cross Joey Logano off his Christmas card list, but he has bigger things to worry about. The 78 team's finishes have degraded in each race since losing the Daytona 500 by mere inches.
Auto Club's pole-winner wound up having a race to forget, but Martinsville will be a good heat check for the young driver. He's yet to finish in the top 10 there.
All eyes will be on the 20 car at Martinsville, with so many questions. Will he get back on track in 2016? Will he finally pick up his first grandfather clock? Wait -- was there some other reason?
Blaney was on pace for a great finish at Auto Club before a tire issue derailed his race in the closing laps. None of his 23 career starts have come at Martinsville, so it'll be interesting to see how he fares.
With his Auto Club finish, Ricky matched his season totals in top-five finishes from each of his full-time Cup campaigns. We're not entirely ready to say he is Chase-bound, but the improvement is undeniable.
Almirola has yet to find the top 10, but he did only have seven in his Chase year of 2014. Plus, his average finish is much better this year (17.0) compared to then (21.4).
We're glad Larson is OK after a major blow with the wall at Auto Club, but he's quickly building himself quite a hole in the standings.
Easily Hendrick's fourth-best car right now, Kahne and the No. 5 team just haven't been able to put it together to the point that they have just one top 10 in their last nine races, dating back to last season.
Jamie McMurray earned just his first top-10 of the season at Auto Club, but on the whole his finishes haven't been terrible. If he can maintain finishes in the 15-20 range, he'll most likely be Chase-bound for the second year in a row, but we'll see.
Newman has zero top-10s this year. They aren't the benchmark for everything -- i.e. he was involved in a crash at Phoenix -- but the No. 31 team isn't turning any heads.