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Racecar Of The Day: April 27, 2017; Team Caliber '03 Ford Taurus (Mark Martin)
Topic Started: Apr 26 2017, 11:40 PM (281 Views)
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Today's Car Of The Day is Team Caliber's 2003 Ford Taurus NASCAR stock car (Mark Martin).

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Mark Anthony Martin (born January 9, 1959) is a former American stock car racing driver. He last drove the No. 14 Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series on an interim basis until car owner Tony Stewart was cleared following a sprint car-related injury from August 2013. As of 2014, he had the second most wins in the Nationwide Series with 49. He finished second in the Sprint Cup Series standings five times, and has been described by ESPN as "The best driver to never win a championship." Martin, with five IROC Championships, has more than any other driver. Also, during the 2005 season, Martin took over the all-time record for IROC wins, with 13.


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Poor Mark, after years with Folgers and Valvoline, by this point in his career he was driving the Viagra car.

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Overall with Roush Racing, Martin won 35 career NASCAR Cup Series races and finished second in the Cup Series point standings four times (1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002). While racing for Roush in 1990, Martin came his closest to winning a championship. A 46-point penalty at Richmond, for using an illegal (but non-performance enhancing) carburetor spacer, caused him to lose to Dale Earnhardt by 26 points in the final standings. During this time, Martin also won five IROC titles (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2005) and 13 races, both records for that series.

Martin announced he would cut back from 'full-time' Cup Series racing after the 2005 season, dubbing the season the "Salute to You" tour as a thank you to his fans. Martin won the Nextel Challenge in a 'Retro 93' paint scheme, picked up his final win with Roush at Kansas and again made the Chase for the Cup with a ninth-place in the standings at the end of the year. In a tribute to Martin's career at Roush, the team ran four throwback retro schemes in 2005, that celebrated paint schemes from 1981, 1988-89, 1990-91, and 1993.


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pjedsel
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A nice model of the Taurus - it has always been to bad that no one made a stock model of Taurus from this era. Team Caliber did a decent job on their stock car models. I keep thinking this Pfizer version was the pc version as some did not want Viagra on a "kids toy." :rolleyes:
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chris.p
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I don't really collect this type of car - but it's got fantastic printing on it.

Does the real one have Viagra written on it?

Nice choice. Chris
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chris.p
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I don't really collect this type of car - but it's got fantastic printing on it.

Does the real one have Viagra written on it?

Nice choice. Chris
Yes
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I think it was Cracked or possibly Mad magazine that did a NASCAR parody around that time, and among other highlights (trying to track down the Hut Stricklin collector glass) the one that springs to mind is 'drivers should retire if they leave their turn blinker on for more than 200 laps' (and illustrated, of course, was Martin in the Viagra car with the turn signal sticker amazingly blinking like a real turn signal ;) ).
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