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Stock Car Scoop: Will Martinsville Mayhem Rear Its Head?

It’s race weekend at Martinsville Speedway as the NASCAR Cup Series enters the penultimate round of the 2022 season.

With parity, 19 different winners and various feuds reigning throughout the year, plenty is at stake for Sunday’s (Oct. 30) race at the Paperclip.

Adam Cheek and Dalton Hopkins break down what’s at stake this weekend for the eight playoff drivers, if previous feuds (primarily that between title contenders Denny Hamlin and William Byron) will return to headlines and which competitors will move on to the Championship 4.

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Adam Cheek joined Frontstretch as a contributing writer in January 2019. A 2020 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he covered sports there and later spent a year and a half as a sports host on 910 the Fan in Richmond, VA. He's freelanced for Richmond Magazine and the Richmond Times-Dispatch and also hosts the Adam Cheek's Sports Week podcast. Adam has followed racing since the age of three, inheriting the passion from his grandfather, who raced in amateur events up and down the East Coast in the 1950s.