The 2016 Goody's Fast Relief 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that was held on October 30, 2016, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia.

At 0.526 miles (0.847 km) in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

[11] Martin Truex Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 19.282 and a speed of 98.206 mph (158.047 km/h).

[16] Kyle Larson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 19.707 and a speed of 96.088 mph (154.639 km/h).

[17] Under mostly cloudy Virginia skies, Martin Truex Jr. led the field to the green flag at 1:18 p.m.

The first caution of the race flew on lap 22 after Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wheel-hopped and backed into the turn 3 wall.

Carl Edwards and Denny Hamlin were sent to the tail end of the field on the restart for speeding.

Racing for second, Hamlin made contact with Jimmie Johnson by bumping him out of the way rounding turns 3 and 4 before continuing on lap 198.

[21] In his post-race media availability, Hamlin explained his bump on Johnson by saying how they "were racing for 13th or something at New Hampshire and he turned us, luckily I saved it.

I raced him hard for the lead at Charlotte and then we come here and I catch him from a really long ways back.

I'll take that as a compliment.”[23] Debris on the backstretch, a torn banner, brought out the fourth caution on lap 200.

It ran the length of a full fuel run, which is rare at Martinsville, and a number of cars pitted under green, also rare at Martinsville, when Edwards cut a tire, slammed the wall in turn and brought out the fifth caution with 142 laps to go.

Because this happened during a cycle of green flag stops, it caused a number of cars to be in the wrong order when the race was scheduled to restart with 127 to go.

There was controversy with race control taking so long to sort out the running order and for allowing so many laps to click off (29 total under the caution period) instead of throwing the red flag and sorting the running order.

[26] Following the race, Sprint Cup Series Managing Director Richard Buck said what happened "was a very dynamic situation; it was unique, as you saw.

That presents one set of issues that we deal with and then from that point as it moved along and we started to get the lineup as we normally do, it went to another dynamic when we had the leader run out of fuel.

After two laps of side-by-side racing, Johnson passed Hamlin exiting turn 2 to take the lead with 91 to go.

Keselowski worked his way past Busch, Kenseth and Hamlin to move into second, but ran out of time to run down Johnson who drove on to score the victory.

"[32] Around an hour following the race, a vehicle struck and injured 22 pedestrians in a handicapped parking lot next to the helipad outside turns 1 and 2.

Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte called the race in the booth with a guest appearance by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast handled pit road on the television side.