Holding a Pretty Wheel: R-E-S-P-E-C-T? Who Needs That When NASCAR’s All About Me?
Last Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, NASCAR Sprint Cup veteran Mark Martin noted that the racing has changed during his career.
Last Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, NASCAR Sprint Cup veteran Mark Martin noted that the racing has changed during his career.
Sunday’s race was won with a bump and run from series champion Jimmie Johnson to Kurt Busch in a classic short track battle. But on Friday, Mark Martin and Jeff Burton both commented that lack of respect on the racetrack is becoming a huge problem in NASCAR, changing how the game is played in a bad way. Are they correct, or were the comments just leftover frustration from a wreck-filled race at Sonoma?
After a fourth at Fontana on Sunday, Mark Martin sits sixth in the standings and is the highest-ranked of the Yankees… er, Hendrick powerhouse.
His stats are good enough, but Mark Martin could not muster enough strength to mount a challenge to Jimmie Johnson in Phoenix.
Mark Martin said before Sunday’s race that Talladega is nothing more than “a game of chance.”
The first Chase race is finally behind us, with Mark Martin earning his season-high fifth win of the season in Loudon, N.H.
In the closing laps, Sunday’s Sylvania 300 was a barnburner, with Chasers Mark Martin, Denny Hamlin and Juan Pablo Montoya sparring for the lead.
2 – number of times winner Mark Martin led the Sylvania 300 Sunday.
LOUDON, N.H. – “Do you think it’s possible that somebody of Mark Martin’s age can win a NASCAR Sprint Cup?”
Mark Martin chose the outside lane and held the lead on the final three restarts to assert his claims as a legitimate title contender at New Hampshire.