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Will Mark Martin Make The Chase For The Cup

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gave20 Senior Enthusiast

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Martin's riding the bench the next few weeks, can he and more importantly will he make the "race for the chase"? And is he second guessing his tenure with Roush? He's been running awful good the last few weeks, do you think his career would have been better with another team?

General Lee 01 Senior Enthusiast

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He damn well should make the chase! :withstupid:

 

 

 

I've always thought for a long time, that if Martin had Hendrick power under him this whole time, he'd be a champion, and probably more than once. And it's not necessarily that Roush isn't putting out top notch equipment, it's more that Roush has the wrong Manufactuer backing him.

 

The chevys are running the roost (and have been for a loooong time) in NASCAR. Even when Kenseth and Kurt Busch took the title, Chevrolet still took the manufactuers title.

 

 

There's 2 or 3 top notch chevrolet teams and Roush is the only Ford team that's been knocking on the door.

antig24 Senior Enthusiast

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Anyone have a link to Martin's schedule? I guess there is a chance that he could be in the top 12 in points by race 26 depending on how many races he doesn't run between now and then. Not very likely, but still a chance. It would be a very interesting situation.

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I don't think he can make the chase with all the races he plans on missing. I wish he would reconsider.... he's in first, 8 points over Gordon. He has one more good run left in him. But then again... if he has no DNF's and finishes well in the races he does do..... it's possible ???

 

Come back Mark!

TA462 Enthusiast

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Martin doesn't have any chance to make the chase. With all the races he is going to miss he is going to drop to the middle of the pack in points.

General Lee 01 Senior Enthusiast

General Lee 01

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If he sticks to his plan the whole year, he's gonna miss atleast 10 races. That would definately take him out of contention.... but if he does decide after Martinsville's over "oh what the hell, I'm going for it!" he's got a shot.

 

It takes a big man to walk away from a points lead though. You can't hate on that! :rolleyes:

gave20 Senior Enthusiast

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Martin is scheduled to run 20 races, so under the new rules he will only miss 6 races or 1080 points. Going into Richmond last year the 12th place driver was 685 points back. If he runs good when he runs and the top 5 in points have issues along the way it's possible that he could make it on a long shot. My guess is he would have definitely stayed in the car if he was leading the points 10 races in but with it being this early anything can happen so why not sit out.

 

I'm hoping by some fluke he does make it, just to prove how stupid the new point system is.

Wayne02 Enthusiast

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Highly unlikely, near impossible given how many races he is going to miss. Which is too bad as with the strong start he has to this year, this season may have been his best chance yet.

mcaje Enthusiast

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No. You can't make the Chase for the Cup if you get too many zeros. Even a DNF is worth points.

Nice rig Enthusiast

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I can only hope that he does, but I don't think he will. He already dropped to 15th with just sitting out 2 races, plus he doesn't really want to chase it anymore from what he has said. I think if he changed teams about 5 years ago he would have had at least one cup in his trophy case and I hope that maybe next season he does a full season.

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