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Originally Posted by coolmanvette75
Blacdout, Glad to see I'm not the only Mark Martin fan still left out there. Saw him win at dover that last time he won there. Sucks he is driving a toyota now though...
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I became a NASCAR fan by accident. I was at Sam's club with my parents, and on the floor they had haulers with two cars. I chose Marks cause red,white and blue was flashy to me ( The other was Rusty Wallace,and I think Richard Petty) I come to find out its part of a racing series, watched it a couple times, saw Mark win, and the rest was history. Knowing that Mark set the standard of working out, I began to work out as a kid, never wanting to sit down, hoping to be a driver like him someday. I never did a drug in my life, and kept drinking to a minimum, even to this day, because I never wanted to hurt my chances at making it some day, and hurting my body as well. In a sense he was my hero growing up, so I think it saddens me that he's got a few more competative years in him before he fads away, my idle I've watched since being 7 years old.
I feel my father tried his best to make sure I had a role model, or hell even a sport to be a fan of. I was a reclusive kid, not paying much attention to sports until NASCAR, so any chance he had to get some sort of merchandise from his company, or if a driver was around, he would take me there to meet them. I then became a fan of the Flyers, and began playing hockey, and my father didn't push the envelope as much, but when there was an opportunity, he would make sure I stayed in the right direction, instead of being a victim of peer pressure, since my attempts to be more social growing up were frail.