Mark Martin
Mark Martin
Mark Anthony Martinis a former American stock car racing driver. He last drove the No. 14 Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series on an interim basis until car owner Tony Stewart was cleared following a sprint car-related injury from August 2013. As of 2014, he had the second most wins in the Nationwide Series with 49. He finished second in the Sprint Cup Series standings five times, and has been described by ESPN as "The...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth9 January 1959
CityBatesville, AR
lighten promise
I made a promise to myself that I would lighten up this year, and have some fun.
chase cup goal next richmond spot
Our goal was to clinch our spot in the Chase and we've done that. We can kind of go for it all at Richmond and then it's on to the next goal: the Nextel Cup Championship.
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We have a great organization with really fantastic drivers and crew chiefs at Roush Racing.
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I thought I might be able to beat him to the line off of (turn) four, but he had more momentum.
easy fight
Kind of made it easy on me here at the end without me having to fight for it.
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Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.
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It brings sometimes higher prices, sometimes lower prices. It takes away that egalitarian, lowest common denominator for prices.
believe family itself nascar
NASCAR touts itself as a family sport, and I believe it is,
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To be able to get a jump and jump into fifth place in points ... we were looking at different math going into this race,
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When you get caught in lap traffic and you lose 20 car lengths and there are five laps to go, it's not realistic after you've already reeled him in once.
carries driver heroes needs size stick
There is no driver in the sport who carries the size of stick that Dale Earnhardt carried. Every sport needs its heroes and we have our heroes here, but there are heroes who are very much different than Dale Earnhardt. There just won't be another one.
fan huge incredible kurt respectful
He's been so incredible and respectful of me being the old-timer. I'm a huge Kurt Busch fan and always will be.
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Tony is today's ultimate racer. He's the ultimate racer of this era.
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When you consider there were 991 teams from throughout the state, coming anywhere in the top five or ten is a great honor and we came in third. It says something about the quality of our kids.