Mark Martin

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Early career

Martin was born in Batesville, Arkansas. He began his racing career as a young man on Arkansas' dirt tracks. He jumped into asphalt racing and entered the ASA racing series. Martin competed against Dick Trickle, Jim Sauter, Joe Shear, and Bobby Allison during his ASA time. He was named the year's best-selling Rookie of the Year in 1977. In 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1986, Martin won twenty-two ASA titles and four championships.

Early NASCAR career

Martin got off to a rocky start in NASCAR, with six different teams from 1981 to 1987. He made five starts in 1981 with Bud Reeder's team, winning two pole positions at Nashville and Richmond and finishing third in his final run at Martinsville.

In 1982, Martin competed full time with the team, earning Rookie of the Year awards. In 30 runs, the team struggled for consistency, with just eight top tens out of a total of six races, as well as a rash of five DNFs. Martin finished 14th in the final standings and second to Geoff Bodine for Rookie of the Year after completing only 73.7 percent of the laps and leading only four laps all season. Despite finishing strongly, with two top tens in the final two races, including a fifth-place finish at Riverside, Martin, and Reeder, the season came to an end. Reeder is the only driver to run more than six races for a team owned or co-owned by the team. Martin left the team at the end of the season, having signed with Jim Stacy in 1983.

Martin began competing for Jim Stacy in 1983. After just seven races, three top 11s were announced, but four others were ranked 24th or worse. After two days of racing for D. K. Ulrich and one for Emanuel Zervakis, he secured a ride with Morgan-McClure Motorsports for six races, becoming the organization's first driver. Martin finished inside the top 20 percent, with two of whom were ranked outside the top 20, including a 10th at Talladega.

Martin went back to racing in the American Speed Association after being unable to get a ride for 1984. Jimmy Fennig was brought on to serve as the crew chief in 1985, and the two teams would face the ASA championship next season, Martin's fourth series title.

Martin was offered a part-time ride driving for Jerry Gunderman after his success in his three-year stint in ASA. In five starts, he has earned two top-five finishes and began at Atlanta's outside pole.

Martin's success in the previous three seasons earned him a full-time ride in the Busch Series. He started the season off with two wins, three poles, nine top tens, and was fourth in the standings after 15 races. Martin had seven DNFs in the final 12 races, including six due to mechanical failure and four blown engines, after just one DNF in the first 15 races. Despite being in the top ten in the other five categories, Martin's failure to finish before the season ended his career in the top ten rankings.

Although Martin's chances of winning the championship ended in late season, Jack Roush, who arranged Martin to drive for him in the Winston Cup Series in 1988, caught the interest he had in 1987. He won three titles, six poles, 13 top tens, and an eight-place finish in the standings in 1987.

Post-racing career

Martin revealed on July 31, 2014, he had joined Roush Fenway Racing as a driver development coach.

Martin flocked to answer a fan's query that he was no longer a Roush driver coach on February 6, 2015. Martin has now retired from racing himself but he does work with a dirt racing crew in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, where his Mark Martin Automotive group co-sponsors driver Jared Landers.

Martin is the president of a family of automobile dealerships in Arkansas who are part of Mark Martin Automotive, a franchisee in Batesville, Arkansas, with dealerships specializing in Ford, Kia, Chevrolet, GMC, and Buick vehicles. Mark Martin Powersports in Batesville, Arkansas, specializes in selling boats, motorcycles, ATVs, and UTVs from companies like AlumaCraft, Mercury Outboards, Tohatsu, Excel, Honda, Kawasaki, and Yamaha.

Motorsports career results

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Awards and honors

• 1989 Richard Petty Driver of the Year
• 2002, 2005, 2009 NASCAR Illustrated Person of the Year Award recipient
• 2008 Legends of The Glen inductee
• 2015 Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee
• 2017 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee