Sterling Marlin

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I'm not sure who else remembers, but for the majority of the 2002 season, Sterling was running the show. I think he led the points pretty much the entire year. I remember he wrecked and got injured at Richmond later in the season and finished last (but still had the points lead), then broke his neck a few races later and missed the last half dozen races. You might remember McMurray subbing for him, and winning in just his second career start.

I bring this up because I always liked Sterling, and it looked like 2002 was going to be his year. It would have been cool to see him win a championship. He deserved one.

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I thought you were going to post this....from Jayski

Sterling Marlin back racing: Sterling Marlin, winner of back-to-back Daytona 500s in 1994 & 1995, has committed to racing in the Howie Lettow 150, ARCA Midwest Tour vice president Steve Einhaus said. ARCAFest runs June 7-8 at the Milwaukee Mile. Marlin, 56, won 10 times in 748 starts in NASCAR's top division, including Daytona in 1994 and '95. His best seasons was 2002 when he won twice for Chip Ganssi and Felix Sabates and led the standings for 25 straight weeks before suffering a neck injury that caused him to miss the final seven races. Although the colorful Tennessean retired from NASCAR national series competition in 2009, he has raced some on the local short tracks

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http://www.sportingnews.com/nascar/...iagnosed-illness-disorder-parkinsonism-parkin

"Cut the knuckle real bad on (my) bird finger ... I couldn't shoot a bird. Just impossible," Marlin, one of NASCAR’s most colorful characters, told ESPN. "It wouldn't move and I thought that was the problem. But it got healed up and I said, '... Something's still wrong.' And it kept getting worse and worse and worse, so I went to the doctor to see what the hell's going on."

"I've had people say, 'Man, you got Parkinson's disease?' I say, '(expletive) naw!'" Marlin laughed. "It's called Parkinsonism. It's associated with (Parkinson's disease), but it's nothing-near like it. You just take the medicine and you'll be fine. It ain't no problem.”

lol Sterling is the man
 
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TooSweet said:
I'm not sure who else remembers, but for the majority of the 2002 season, Sterling was running the show. I think he led the points pretty much the entire year. I remember he wrecked and got injured at Richmond later in the season and finished last (but still had the points lead), then broke his neck a few races later and missed the last half dozen races. You might remember McMurray subbing for him, and winning in just his second career start.

I bring this up because I always liked Sterling, and it looked like 2002 was going to be his year. It would have been cool to see him win a championship. He deserved one.
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One of the funniest things I ever remember seeing in Nascar was during the 2002 Daytona 500 I believe. The race had been red flagged for some reason and Sterling was just sitting there behind the pace car with a damaged right front fender and waiting out the red flag. After waiting a while with nothing happening yet to clear the red flag, he got out of his car, ran around behind it and up to his damaged right front fender.

He started pulling out the bad fender which of course you can’t do during a red flag. He had barely been at it for a few moments when a Nascar official jumped out of the passenger door on the pace car and with his arms waving all over the place, started chasing after Sterling.

At the time, I thought it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen in Nascar and I still do even today!
 
Tumbleweed said:
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One of the funniest things I ever remember seeing in Nascar was during the 2002 Daytona 500 I believe. The race had been red flagged for some reason and Sterling was just sitting there behind the pace car with a damaged right front fender and waiting out the red flag. After waiting a while with nothing happening yet to clear the red flag, he got out of his car, ran around behind it and up to his damaged right front fender.

He started pulling out the bad fender which of course you can’t do during a red flag. He had barely been at it for a few moments when a Nascar official jumped out of the passenger door on the pace car and with his arms waving all over the place, started chasing after Sterling.

At the time, I thought it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen in Nascar and I still do even today![/quote]


thanks for the memories...I remember that, we sat there stunned and then busted out laughing!
 
2002 was Gordon's 500. Never knew why Sterling dumped him
 
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I remember cracking up laughing hearing that at the time. Obviously, it sucked for Sterling since he was running well that night. But just the way he said it...:lol2:
 
^There are a bunch of full races on youtube.

I don't think Sterling was gonna win the title in 2002. He had a crazy fast car and it was obvs Chip put alot of money in but Sterling lost the points lead well before his neck injury.

Still though, really good driver.
 
Seems to me that he and teammate Bill Elliott started on the front row at Daytona one year .
 
Lazyking said:
^There are a bunch of full races on youtube.

I don't think Sterling was gonna win the title in 2002. He had a crazy fast car and it was obvs Chip put alot of money in but Sterling lost the points lead well before his neck injury.

Still though, really good driver.
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I've watched a few full races. Nothing earlier than 1990 though.
 
ted@economy said:
Seems to me that he and teammate Bill Elliott started on the front row at Daytona one year .
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They did and I think Marlin took them both out.

I never will forget him saying how much he hated road courses and that those were for the "wine and cheese boys". LOL
 
ElliottFan said:
They did and I think Marlin took them both out.

I never will forget him saying how much he hated road courses and that those were for the "wine and cheese boys". LOL
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I think every driver felt that way in those days.:)
 
I remember seeing sterling in the neck brace. That was the early onset of the HANS as well, you'd think he'd be safe from neck injury.
 
2002 was a strange, bizarre year. Jimmie Johnson could have easily won the championship after Sterling's injury and Mark Martin was also in position before a bizarre incident at Talladega when Mark and Jimmie crashed on the pace laps.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
2002 was a strange, bizarre year. Jimmie Johnson could have easily won the championship after Sterling's injury and Mark Martin was also in position before a bizarre incident at Talladega when Mark and Jimmie crashed on the pace laps.
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Has there ever been a year where Jimmie Johnson wasn't, at one point, in contention to win the championship?

Answer: No.
 
KevinWI said:
Has there ever been a year where Jimmie Johnson wasn't, at one point, in contention to win the championship?

Answer: No.
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he never won a championship before a format change either.
 
Sterlin Marlin along with Hermie Sadler are involved in wrestling in Tennessee.
 

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Damn..............

Ole Sterlin' in the rasslin' ring.

Reckon he must be 'Toupee Thunder' in the shows.
 
Last time I saw something about Marlin he was in trouble with his state's environmental agency for bulldozing a bunch of mud and silt into a fish-bearing creek at the back of his property.
 
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