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Dale Earnhardt Jr. has finally claimed his very own long-sought-after grandfather clock trophy for winning at Martinsville, but it came on a significant anniversary.

Sunday's race at Martinsville saw a race-long tit-for-tat battle between Kasey Kahne and Brian Vickers with both drivers seeing retaliation on the other.

Eight drivers now remain in the running for the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship - so who is looking good to make it all the way?

Mark Martin will replace Denny Hamlin in the Joe Gibbs Racing #11 for one race only, with Brian Vickers taking over the seat for the rest of Hamlin's absence.

Veteran Cup driver Mark Martin is to move into the Joe Gibbs Racing #11 Cup race seat while Denny Hamlin recovers from his compression fracture.

Rick Hendrick is recovering from a broken rib and clavicle following a plane crash on Monday evening that saw his jet run off the end of the runway at Key West International Airport.

Red Bull driver Brian Vickers continues to look at the battle for the NASCAR Sprint Cup crown as the Chase goes on...

Let's see, which way does the nozzle go?

David Reutimann understands the pressure of racing. He felt it heavy on his shoulders for more than a decade as he ran his own cars on short tracks throughout the Southeast, eking out a living race to race.

Repaving the Martinsville Speedway, with more tarmac replacing much of the previous tarmac/concrete mix, has not removed its challenges to a driver, but changed them, according to five times winner at the Virginia venue Jeff Gordon.

Dale Earnhardt Jr admits to having been "really frustrated" when NASCAR this week threw out his appeal against a 25-point penalty, imposed after he uttered a profanity on live TV following victory at Talladega three weeks ago.

By Andrew Charman