NASCAR Cup race postponed until Sunday

Rain halted Saturday night’s Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway after 42 laps, necessitating a Sunday doubleheader of incomplete races that will feature 458 laps of the NASCAR Cup Series race, along with the final 159 circuits of Friday night’s rain-delayed Cook Out 250 NASCAR Xfinity Series event.

The eighth race of the NASCAR Cup Series season will restart Sunday at 4 p.m. ET, following the conclusion of the Xfinity race, which completed 91 of 250 laps Friday night, before rain and lightning forced a halt to the proceedings.

The Cook Out 250 is scheduled to resume at noon ET. Both races will be broadcast on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

Denny Hamlin led 35 of the 42 laps before rain halted the action at 9:43 p.m. on Saturday. Hamlin, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Martin Truex Jr. and Chase Elliott held the top five positions, respectively, when the race was red-flagged.

Running Order at Red-Flag

POS	CAR	DRIVER	MAKE	LAPS	BEHIND
1	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	42	0.000s
2	22	Joey Logano	Ford	42	2.020
3	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	42	3.978
4	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Toyota	42	7.098
5	9	Chase Elliott	Chevy	42	9.165
6	24	William Byron	Chevy	42	11.322
7	2	Brad Keselowski	Ford	42	12.674
8	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	42	14.616
9	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	42	16.454
10	5	Kyle Larson	Chevy	42	18.411
11	37	* Ryan Preece	Chevy	42	19.939
12	48	Alex Bowman	Chevy	42	22.189
13	3	Austin Dillon	Chevy	42	24.189
14	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	42	26.602
15	21	Matt DiBenedetto	Ford	42	28.719
16	43	Erik Jones	Chevy	42	30.569
17	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	42	32.094
18	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Chevy	42	34.292
19	1	Kurt Busch	Chevy	42	36.453
20	6	Ryan Newman	Ford	42	39.353
21	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	42	43.015
22	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	42	46.289
23	8	Tyler Reddick	Chevy	42	49.679
24	42	Ross Chastain	Chevy	42	51.759
25	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevy	42	54.046
26	41	Cole Custer	Ford	42	55.956
27	14	Chase Briscoe #	Ford	42	58.912
28	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	42	61.163
29	7	Corey LaJoie	Chevy	42	64.659
30	38	Anthony Alfredo #	Ford	42	67.983
31	77	Justin Haley(i)	Chevy	41	59.339
32	53	JJ Yeley(i)	Chevy	41	60.548
33	78	BJ McLeod(i)	Ford	41	61.854
34	52	Josh Bilicki	Ford	41	63.166
35	51	Cody Ware(i)	Chevy	41	64.693
36	00	Quin Houff	Chevy	41	66.363
37	15	James Davison	Chevy	40	-2

# Denotes Rookie
(i) Not Eligible For Points
(*) Required To Qualify On Time