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Martinsville: Not a lot of bells and whistles ... but great side-by-side racin'

By Marty Smith
ESPN.com

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Given its drag-strip straightaways and jug-handle corners, Martinsville Speedway is coined "The Paper Clip." Sunday, it was the Arctic Circle. (Oval, as it were.) It was colder than a Page 6 headline about Britney Spears. The community men's bathroom at Martinsville is a cinderblock with five or six johns and some 20 urinals. So I'm standing there Sunday morning, about two-thirds of the way down the urinal line, when a guy from Jeff Burton's team sidles up beside me, looks me in the eye, grin ...

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