For casual viewers of Saturday’s XFINITY Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, the name Justin Marks may have been unfamiliar. Heck, even regular NASCAR viewers still may not have known for sure who he was. If they stuck around for the end, though, they certainly won’t forget. Marks has 64 career starts across NASCAR’s …
Well, no one said it would be easy to get your first NASCAR XFINITY Series win. But chances are Justin Marks didn’t think he’d have to slip and slide through the rain to do it. Saturday (Aug. 13) at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, amid a wet-and-wild track surface and after a final restart with two …
In the midst of a struggling 2016 campaign, all it took was a little rain, and some tremendous driving in it, to bring Chip Ganassi Racing’s Justin Marks his first-career NASCAR XFINITY Series victory at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Making his 25th-career XFINITY Series start, Marks marched his way to the front, led a race-high …
As soon as Justin Marks made his first start with Chip Ganassi Racing this season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, there was no confusion about the challenges ahead. Though Marks has 122 starts in NASCAR and ARCA – including two Sprint Cup Series starts at Sonoma – 2016 marks his his oval track comeback, breaking …
Who says kids are afraid of monsters? Erik Jones sure isn’t as the 19-year-old drove to victory at Dover International Speedway to claim the win in the Ollie’s Bargain Outlet 200. The victory is his second win of 2016 and fourth of his XFINITY Series career. “Coming down to a short-run, I knew we were …
Last weekend in Las Vegas was not necessarily the best, weather-wise; Michael Waltrip found that out the hard way. It’s not quite Gene Shalit having a bad hair day on The Critic, but it was pretty bad. Regardless, we had 700 miles of racing in Las Vegas to cover this week. Sunday was a big …
A 24-hour race is a test of fortitude. Anything and everything can happen. From wrecks to blown engines, flawless runs to drives through the infield that could be best described a trainwreck, the Rolex 24 at Daytona is truly a race in which anything can happen. Add in a grand total of one hour of …
The second quarter of the Rolex 24 at Daytona saw a number of contenders run into serious difficulties. The most notable of these instances was when the No. 60 Ligier JS P2-HPD driven by Oswaldo Negri, Jr. blew an engine in the infield while leading overall. The Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian entry is now …
Looking to make the most of a rare opportunity, Justin Marks topped the charts at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Marks put down an 85.082-second lap to lead the way in Friday’s final NASCAR Xfinity Series practice. Making a rare start for HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi, Marks’s 95.574-mph lap put him ahead of Ty Dillon …
Right turns? The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series doesn’t usually do many of them, but this weekend’s round of stock car action will be an exception. The twisty, 11-turn Sonoma Raceway is the next track on deck for NASCAR’s top series, a track that is likely to inject some life into what has been a rather …
Usually when NASCAR visits a road course, there are always a few new faces that come and drive in the series, drivers from different backgrounds of racing that are much more familiar with road courses than the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers and that could help a team in needs of a good finish. Next …
The Xfinity Series will have another road ringer in the field when they head to Mid-Ohio and Road America this summer. Justin Marks, who has made sporadic starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series over the last eight years and currently co-owns five K&N Pro Series East teams with Harry Scott, will take the wheel of …
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