September 27, 2005

Mark Martin in 2006

(Filed under: Business)

NASCAR.com talks with Geoff Smith, the president of Roush Racing, about the past and future of Roush Racing, including the chances Kurt Busch will drive for Penske in 2006 (unlikely). He also explains what happened with Mark Martin and why 2005 probably won't be his last year:

The thing that changed the dynamic was from the exit of Jeff Burton to pulling Carl Edwards out of our planned cycle, and then suddenly we didn't have the continuation of the 6 team that would coincide with Mark's retirement from the Cup Series.

That created a significant business issue for us, and Mark also didn't want to leave with a really good team not having a driver.

It wasn't Jack, (because) Jack had stopped approaching Mark on driving. But I approached him on it. I said to Mark, "This was not how any of us wanted to end this in Cup racing" -- and he agreed.

Posted by kevin at September 27, 2005 6:33 PM

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