| This page contains a chronological list of new articles, stories, features, etc. that I have added to this site in 2008. Click on the date to read more details of that particular article where necessary. |
| 05/10/2008 MARK 16th AT DARLINGTON CUP RACE |
| Mark and the No. 8 U.S. Army team experienced an unidentified power steering issue, but still managed to post a solid 16th-place finish in Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Darlington Raceway Story and pictures now up. |
| 05/09/2008 MARK 23rd AT DARLINGTON NATIONWIDE RACE |
| Mark and the No. 8 U.S. Army team experienced an unidentified power steering issue, but still managed to post a solid 16th-place finish in Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Darlington Raceway. Story and pictures now up. |
| 05/03/2008 MARK BRINGS THE #8 HOME 3rd AT RICHMOND |
| Mark and the No. 8 U.S. Army Team turned in their second consecutive top-five performance with a third-place run in Saturday night's Crown Royal 400 at Richmond International Raceway. It was also the best finish of the season for Mark and the No. 8 team. Story and pictures now up. |
| 04/12/2008 MARK 5TH AT PHOENIX |
| Mark’s No. 8 Chevrolet Impala was the class of the field as the laps wound down in Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway. Unfortunately Mark and the team came up short on fuel, while settling for a fifth-place finish at the 1-mile track. In one of Mark’s strongest outings in recent history, the veteran led 68 laps and had the fastest car on the track for much of the race. Story and pictures now up |
| 04/06/2008 MARK BRINGS THE 8 HOME 8TH AT TEXAS |
| Mark brought the #8 US Army Chevrolet home in 8th after a poor qualifying run and a 31st starting position. Story and pictures now up |
| 03/09/2008 MARK 22nd AT ATLANTA CUP RACE |
| Mark and the U.S. Army/Dale Earnhardt Inc. team endured a tough outing in Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Story and pictures now ready. |
| 03/02/2008 MARK 10th AT VEGAS SPRINT CUP RACE |
| Driving the No. 8 U.S. Army Chevrolet, Mark posted his ninth top-10 finish in 11 career Sprint Cup starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Story and pictures now ready. |
| 03/01/2008 MARK WINS RECORD 48th NATIONWIDE SERIES AT VEGAS |
| Before Mark allowed himself to celebrate his victory in the NASCAR Nationwide Series Sam's Town 300 Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, he felt compelled to offer his condolences to a former teammate and a current one. Read the full story. Story and pictures now ready. |
| 02/24/2008 MARK 16th IN MILESTONE 700th CAREER CUP START |
| Mark and the No. 8 Principal Financial Group team fought to a 16th-place finish in Monday’s rain delayed Auto Club 500 at California Speedway. Martin’s milestone 700th-start occurred Sunday, but rain wreaked havoc on the event, causing several delays and finally resulting in the race being red flagged and postponed after 87 laps. Story and pictures now ready. |
| 02/17/2008 MARK 31st AT 2008 DAYTONA 500 |
| A couple bad breaks dropped Mark to a tail end finish in the 50th running of the Daytona 500. A cut tire early put Mark a lap down. By the time he was able to get the lap back, he was involved a wreck not of his own doing. Story and pictures now ready. |
| 02/09/2008 MARK 8th AT 2008 BUD SHOOTOUT |
| Mark finished eighth in Saturday night's Budweiser Shootout after picking up four positions in the final three laps. It was Mark’s 20th consecutive start and 21st overall in the all-star event, which also marked his debut with the No. 8 on his U.S. Army Chevrolet. Story and pictures up now. |
| 01/11/2008 MARK'S NASCAR SCHEDULE FOR 2008 |
| I currently working on putting together Mark's Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series and Craftsmen Truck races for 2008. Should have it posted shortly. |
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I started this website back in the fall of 1999.
I wanted this to be a class site for Mark because he is a class guy. I hope all
that have visited here have noticed that there has never been any wholesale
advertising, obnoxious pop-up banners, ego boosting about all the internet
awards I have earned from this site, irritating amimated .gif's, links to
God knows whatever websites and what a big job it is to keep the guestbook
clean from all the idiots out there that think it is a public forum for all the
crap they try to post there.(It got so bad I had to shut the guestbook down) I have always absorbed the cost of running this site all these years because I wanted a class site to honor Mark. The cost of everything is always going up. My host provider has increased my monthly rate several times and I have always just eaten the cost. But rates are still going up and I had to either do some kind of advertisng or shut the site down. This is a very popular site and I have received many, many fine emails from folks that appreciate the site and I don't want to shut it down. So I decided to try AdSense. I looked hard into this before I decided to do it. I made sure the ads were not gaudy or pop-up. All the ads are only for items related to Mark and they appear quietly on the pages they show up. I receive a stipend everytime someone clicks on the ads. I would appreciate it if you would check out the ads. They will always be related to Mark or Mark merchandise. In this way I may be able to defray some of the cost of this site that I truly enjoy working on and I want to continue a class site for the classiest driver in NASCAR. |