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
atlanta bottom definitely fast favorite good pavement places racing settled time top track
Atlanta is definitely one of my favorite tracks. From top to bottom it's one of my favorite places that we race. It's a fast track and over time the pavement has settled and you have a lot of grooves for racing, which really makes for good racing and a good show for the fans.
fifth jump looking math points
To be able to get a jump and jump into fifth place in points ... we were looking at different math going into this race,
car caught five lap laps lose realistic traffic
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.
racer tony ultimate
Tony is today's ultimate racer. He's the ultimate racer of this era.
anywhere came coming consider five great honor quality says teams ten throughout top
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.
found handful ran wheel
We ran him down, but he got a handful of steering wheel and found some more speed. He got up on the wheel and got it done.
help hope learn testing variety
We hope to learn enough to help us all year. We will be testing everything from springs, shocks, and a variety of different set-ups.
beat line might
I thought I might be able to beat him to the line off of (turn) four, but he had more momentum.
believe family itself nascar
NASCAR touts itself as a family sport, and I believe it is,
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.
brings common higher lower lowest takes
It brings sometimes higher prices, sometimes lower prices. It takes away that egalitarian, lowest common denominator for prices.
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.
easy fight
Kind of made it easy on me here at the end without me having to fight for it.