NASCAR: Speedway reflects on 2018 By BROOKS TAYLOR Dec 24, 2018 Dec 24, 2018 Updated May 16, 2019 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MARTINSVILLE – Martinsville Speedway is known as “the Half-Mile of Mayhem’’ and 2018, the rack certainly lived up to the moniker.kAmx? 7:G6 C246D[ E96 a_`g D62D@? 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