Sterling Marlin
Sterling Marlin
Sterling Marlinis an retired stock car racing driver. , he formerly competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, winning the Daytona 500 in 1994 and 1995. He is the son of late NASCAR driver Coo Coo Marlin. He is married to Paula and has a daughter, Sutherlin, and a son, Steadman, a former Nationwide Series driver...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth30 June 1957
CountryUnited States of America
came car chance clean draft drove fence field finish front happened kept knocked lead looked nose solid starting stayed turned until wall win
Starting from the back was a disadvantage. But we drove through the field and then stayed in the lead draft and kept our nose clean most of the day. It really looked like we were going to have a good, solid finish until something happened to the #2 car (Kurt Busch). I don't know if he got into the wall or if someone turned him into the fence but he came down in front of us and knocked the nose off the car. Our chance for a win was done after that.
harry might run win
I'll probably run two more years. If I can still win me some races, I might do it some more. You know, Harry Gant was still competitive at 54.
chance couple few plan races run team win
I know I can still win races and feel like this team will give me a chance to do that. I plan to run only a couple more years, and I'd like to win a few more before I'm done.
capable car drive few last race winning
I know I can still drive a race car and I know I'm capable of winning races. That's what was so frustrating about the last few years.
believe coming daytona gate guess honestly win
I guess you could say I like coming out of the gate strong. Hopefully, it will be the same with my new ride. I honestly believe we're going to go to the Daytona 500 and win it.
winning vegas car
The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.
thinking hook window
The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.
pain share somebody
So now I have somebody to share my pain with.
american-athlete came chance everybody gave last led points season third
You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points.
days hard seemed team worked
We just couldn't find the right combination. The team really worked hard at it, but it was one of those days when nothing seemed to click.
backup bring came car dead deciding good last lining looked month oil reached sign silver testing time tough
I don't know what happened. I reached down to look at my oil temperature, and when I looked back up everyone was dead stopped. The only silver lining is that our backup car should be as good as our primary. We came down here testing last month and had a tough time deciding which car to bring back, so that's a good sign for Sunday.
confident finish fun good management rocket supposed waste work
What a shame. The Waste Management Chevrolet was really good all day and I was having fun out there. We had a rocket and I'm confident at least a top-10 finish was in our future?maybe even the win. But things just didn't work out for us the way they were supposed to.
call early five guys happened lap last racing
It's disappointing that something like that happened so early in such a long race. There were guys up there racing like it was the last lap-- making it five wide-- it's ridiculous. We were on lap nine-- there's just no call for that.
along beat came join opportunity ran seemed
It seemed like when we ran second, they beat us. When the opportunity came along to join them, there was no second-guessing.