September 25, 2005

Mark Martin Wants 'Old-School Racing'

(Filed under: Interviews)

Veteran NASCAR driver Mark Martin hopes the recent spat of revenge racing can be put to rest in favor of 'old-school racing' during the MBNA RacePoints 400 at Dover today.

First and foremost, we need as a group to stop wrecking all the time. There's no point in that and, hopefully, maybe we'll make some headway with that. ... The amount of cautions that we have to start with is ridiculous. Some are for drink bottles and rollbar padding, which we shouldn't be having, but the others are because parts are falling off these race cars because they're wrecked. ...

Most of the wrecks are not with veteran drivers. At the same time, believe me, there's a lot of pressure in this business and I think people are feeling the pressure and think that taking the risk on wrecking is worth the reward.

Martin is currently seventh in points, 54 behind points leader Tony Stewart. Martin last won at Dover in June 2004 and has the potential to become the only active driver with five career wins at Dover.

Posted by kevin at September 25, 2005 9:46 AM

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