{"id":35341,"date":"2017-01-23T06:45:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=35341"},"modified":"2017-01-20T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:13:40","slug":"five-of-mark-martins-best-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/five-of-mark-martins-best-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Five of Mark Martin’s Best Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, NASCAR is inducting one of its classiest, most talented drivers of all time into its illustrious Hall of Fame. A driver favorite amongst fans, Martin and his race teams won 40 races in total before he retired. Any person would be hard pressed to pick a driver who\u2019s had more success on and off the racetrack than Mark Martin. This week, the former driver won\u2019t be thinking as much about the races he almost won (Daytona 2007). He probably won\u2019t be thinking about finishing twice, five times in the points race, just narrowly missing his chance to claim a NASCAR championship. I doubt anyone who\u2019s a true race fan will do anything but smile with NASCAR and its community of drivers-families watching in admiration as Mark Martin is officially placed into the NASCAR Hall of Fame – right where he belongs.<\/p>\n

At Racing Junk we\u2019re all big fans of Mark Martin and the way he\u2019s always carried himself, standing tall in a respectable way. He proved to the world every Sunday that he was a true professional (both on and off the track); he did this throughout his entire career. We felt it was fitting to write up a list of what we thought were Mark Martin\u2019s best stock car victories. It’s a brief recap of a monumental career that turned a Batesville, Ark. boy into a winning, NASCAR Hall of Fame driver.<\/p>\n

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5. Rockingham 1989<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It took Mark Martin over eight years of racing in the NASCAR series to win his first race. That first win wouldn\u2019t be his last! After a rocky beginning to his NASCAR career, Mark finally captured a win in his #6 STROH\u2019s LIGHT car at Rockingham Motor Speedway on Oct. 22, 1989. The race began with Mark starting in seventh position. He would wind up leading 69 laps that day in his run to the checker flag. Mark Martin was a young 30 years old when he got his first NASCAR trophy, a far cry from the young faces we see coming up through the ranks today.<\/p>\n

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4. Charlotte 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In 1998 Mark Martin had the most wins he\u2019d ever accumulate over the span of an entire NASCAR season (7). Mark would get pretty close to that number again but would never quite see seven wins in total. His biggest win that year was at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Oct. 4, 1998 Mark began the race in second position in his Eagle One Ford Taurus. He would run near the front the majority of the evening, finishing in first place when all was said and done. The 1998 Winston Cup season was one of Mark Martin’s most successful in stock-car racing.<\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0 Kansas 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mark Martin and long time boss Jack Roush are pictured here, grinning from ear to ear after Mark finished in first place in his Jack Roush Racing Viagra Ford Taurus. Mark began the race in Kansas that year in nineteenth position on a sunny fall afternoon. On Oct. 9, 2005 he would work his way to the front and win his only race of the 2005 NASCAR season. That may sound like a disappointing year for Jack and Mark, but don\u2019t be to quick to judge the pair for their lack of wins that year, because Mark would end up finishing with 12 top fives and 19 top tens in total.<\/p>\n

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2. Phoenix 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The five wins that Mark Martin and his CarQuest race team won in 2009 were long awaited. Mark, over the previous three NASCAR seasons, had failed to finish with a win and he and his race team were desperate to show they were still a team to be feared on Sundays. Mark Martin ended his three-year-long winless streak early that year at Phoenix Motor Speedway on April 18, 2009, proving that an old dog can still learn new tricks.<\/p>\n

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1. Loudon 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As the old sang goes, \u201cyou\u2019re only as good as your last race.\u201d It just so happens that the last time Mark Martin won a Sprint Cup race was Sept. 20, 2009 in Loudon, N.H. Pictured here with his bottle of bubbly and clearly proud of his race win, this would be the last time Mark Martin would see victory lane in his illustrious racing career. Beginning the day in 14th position, Mark would weave his way through NASCAR\u2019s best and brightest on his way to capturing his 40th win. We didn\u2019t know at the time that #40 would be his last, but it is most definitely his best.<\/p>\n

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Sources: racing-reference.info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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