Mark Martin is Running Out of Time | Mark Martin Apologetics Tour Part 4

Of all of Mark Martin's runner up finishes, he says that 2002 hurt the most. He was so close and needed just so little to punch it through, and he's running out of time in his career, but fate had other plans. But, as his career begins to fade, one more chance emerges, and takes him to the highest of highs yet again as he enters the 3rd decade of his career.
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[@S1apShoes]

If you're wondering where part 3 is at, my 1998 video effectively covers that season in its entirety, so I've folded it into this series. Retreading the topic would have just felt stale, imo. You can watch part 3 here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2isq59nqb-LgKM

[@nyanblaney]

Mark: Can I... Racing Gods: No

[@kip258]

Racing Gods: But we'll let you get infuriatingly close

[@GaboxRox15]

The racing gods were ruthless

[@Ob1tuber]

Mark: I just want to win a darn crown jewel event

[@generalshepherd2209]

Mark: Gonna let me win a championship? Racing Gods: No. Mark: Then can I at least win the- Racing Gods: No.

[@FastDuDeJiunn]

i since listened to his podcast about his last few years. he had fun, meet a lot of good people. and raced-competed till he had nothing left to give. Man has 0 regrests. sure he wishes he won daytona or a championship. but he knows he had a great career. sadly in his own words he didnt think he was HOF worthy....... which blows me away. imo he raced against the best the sport has ever offered to date, dale sr, jr, stewart some seasons, jeff gordon ofc, few others. and yet mark consistantly competed and even won vs these guys week after week year after year decade after decade and most the time in lesser equipment....

[@generalshepherd2209]

NOO NOPE I’ll give Mark his well deserved due, he is most definitely the best driver to never win a championship, and maybe even the best driver never to win the Daytona 500, but Smoke makes that call a tough one. For all Mark was given, he did astonishing well. 4 wins in a row in 1993, fastest race ever run in 1997 at Talladega, and a career of length many drivers would kill for. He truly is one of the best of the best, and I might even say he is better than other 90s superstar and Ford driver, Dale Jarrett. Don’t get me wrong, DJ is amazing, but look at what Mark has to go through for his wins and then DJ, and I think it adds up quick why he is the greatest to never hoist the cup at seasons’ end.

[@ScarletCharlotte]

The way you write and tell this story is like a Greek tragedy. We know the ending. You've told us the ending at the beginning of Part 1. But still, hearing the way this video ends, part of me is pleading, "He must... Surely... The racing gods can't be so cruel..."

[@Alpha.T.Fitness]

6:14 "But aw he can't do that" The Legend Benny Parsons LOL!! I've been a fan of BP since 1999 and I miss that man. RIP ol BP.

[@johngancarcik5682]

Benny like mark is a fan favorite

[@insidethemindofcatro5642]

This is one of your best videos ever. I feel your pain and anguish as a fan in the emotion you poor into your scripts. You are undoubtedly a Mark Martin fan and this video is so enjoyable! Listening to you over the past few weeks talk about Mark has really reminded me of how great a driver he really was. This next episode is going to hurt though. 2009 was the year I thought Mark was going to do it. Keep up the great work! I hope COVID hasn’t been kicking you in the rear with your shipping job that hard.

[@redram5150]

Christ, guy, you’re working my emotions with the sound editing at the end

[@mulletsrule3388]

Mark is the peoples champion. And never will there be a man so respected

[@johngancarcik5682]

Mark is the best and he holds the greatest title that is the people's champion/ fans champion

[@ObservationofLimits]

Idk man, Kenseth taking out Logano was a people’s champion moment

[@mitchell-wallisforce7859]

@@ObservationofLimits Anyone taking out Logano deserves a Medal of Honor.

[@VladTepesVEVO]

_"What is meant for you will reach you even if it is beneath two mountains. And what isn't meant for you won't reach you even if it is between your two lips."_ -Arabic proverb

[@ObservationofLimits]

Thought it was a viagra joke tbh

[@edd17sp74]

I love the editing on this episode. Sterling’s introduction and the sort of Mark Martin montage at the end with the epic music. Great episode.

[@Mike4k_]

He made part 3 8 months ago he is a genius

[@kip258]

Who are you talking to

[@flyingjay2537]

Kip He doesn’t have to be talking to anyone please don’t be such an asshole.

[@redram5150]

FlyingJay he asked a reasonable question and wasn’t rude about it

[@flyingjay2537]

Red Ram true but I just hate how people judge others for talking to themselves or just talking.

[@Mike4k_]

I was just leaving a comment goodness y’all chill out seriously

[@WeChallenge]

Slapshoe, I'm totally reliving history through you, listening to these Mark Martin offerings about Mark's career, I was driving then as well, a truck driver, working for a company based in Springdale AR. one of their favorite places to send me, to start or end my runs near their terminal, and my home in Mo, was Martins hometown of Searcy, AR., where, at the time on raceday, even CB radio chatter in the area was more concerned with Mark Martins racing, than where speed traps were on up the road. Good memories of one of Nascars greatest. Keep em coming.

[@S1apShoes]

Kickass 😂

[@luxedits2164]

This actually almost made me cry as sad as that is. I really wanted Mark to win a championship the more I look into it. The more I look, the more I see just how much work he has put in.

[@DepravedCoTApologist]

Damn S1ap, that ending was incredible. Imma rewind it and watch it again it was so good

[@evanwilliams6406]

He should have had that 2007 Daytona 500, still boggles my mind that day that they didn't. Newman's crash finish in 2020 and Martin's 2007 loss are the hardest to watch and take.

[@rdaws73]

Should have? He could have if a had a spotter worth a damn. Didnt block Harvick when he had a chance .

[@redzeppelin6]

I can think of another harder to watch and that I refuse to relive, but I feel your pain.

[@ObservationofLimits]

Honestly, makes it seem like the organization has a permanent grudge against him. Loses a championship because of a non-rule, years later, loses a crown event win because NASCAR decides to not enforce a rule

[@evanwilliams6406]

@@ObservationofLimits At least Mark Martin took it like a man. The man is a champion in who he is as a person and he is a driver. He may not have won a championship but he does have many other accolades in a great career. Biggest issue I had with Roush with Mark was they were too conservative when they needed to be aggressive. And sometimes too aggressive where they needed to be conservative so to speak.

[@CJODell12]

@@rdaws73 And to this day, people despise Harvick for "stealing" Martin's Daytona 500 win.

[@nyanblaney]

So Mark’s championship hunt got Hard?

[@Destroyer83]

No, it went up in smoke.

[@mattr.8470]

Am I allowed to say Mark came out flat when it really mattered?

[@christopherwall2121]

Anyone else have any flaccid jokes they wanna make?

[@anubeia]

Viagra sponsored someone notorious for coming second. It writes itself.

[@jeffraines414]

Man, this series is making me re-live my 20's. I used to live near Mark when he lived between high point and Greensboro. I remember when Matt was born, I remember Rachel, hung out with his nephew Christian Lovendahl.. the good ol days for sure. Just found my strohs light t-shirts the other day 😯

[@King1614]

one of these days, fox and NBC will pick up the documentaries you guys do and actually put them on TV. These are gold and thank you for what you do.

[@SiVlog1989]

This series is superb S1ap, as a relative newcomer to following NASCAR, this has increased not only my knowledge of 80's and 90's NASCAR, but it has also increased my respect for Mark Martin

[@KrispyMoist]

Mark Martin was my childhood favorite all the way into retirement. This series is everything I wanted.

[@snappy452]

The 2007 Daytona 500 is my most painful non-death motorsports moment of all. I actually cried after that. A 22 year old man-child in a frat house crying because his guy lost by inches. I even had to look away when you showed the finish. I just can't.

[@rdaws73]

Jesus Christ get a grip LOL

[@PttyBlue43]

Mark Martin will forever be my favorite driver. 2009 was a magical year.

[@romanusrecords]

This series is fantasic. PLEASE do more retrospective stuff on drivers. Could watch this all day

[@alexbeitzel4885]

Loving these videos as a lifelong Mark Martin fan. Appreciate the “pulling a Quinn Houff” reference 👌🏽

[@dwolfe401]

The road to 100k , started on this channel with the 9 types of Winners video and have been hooked ever since . I've loved seeing all these motorsport youtube pages blow up . The future of motorsports is bright and it's in part due to amazing content creators like yourself.

[@andrewputnam2717]

Same video pulled me in

[@sewart]

I wish my dad was still around to see these videos. He was a long-suffering Mark Martin fan :)

[@ZwoodsRacing]

This series is SO GOOD. Thank you so much!

[@davidfaulkner5423]

Love this series!!!! Absolutely love it. The knowledge and quality of information and how you are presenting it all is brilliant. Thank you

[@dylanweber6567]

This series is absolutely so good dude. One of my favorite videos so far, and an amazing series. Awesome job man

[@warhawk3972]

Loving seeing these NASCAR cards from the early 2000s, nobody ever talks about NASCAR cards it seems and that was one of my favorite ways to express my fanhood from 02-15

[@GetBenched2010]

Ed Harris was born to play Mark Martin in a movie.

[@wormuel]

That was so freakin good. What an episode! Good job Slap and keep it up! I’m loving these so much!

[@Ob1tuber]

That Ben Lesley intro was amazing

[@joshuapboston1999]

Awesome! Can't wait for the epic conclusion of this series, S1ap! Your content is excellent, and honestly, I really have appreciated and enjoyed Mark Martin more thanks to it!

[@pilotdrew85]

Love this series, thank you! Watching Mark try and come up short was a big part of my childhood through the 90s and 2000s. I'll always consider him the best to never get the trophy.

[@brockstar1461]

I raced with Stirlin Marlin on iRacing about a month ago. good kid. and speaking of the 2002 daytona 500. We were asking Stirlin about that race and Sterling said that he is glad he did that and had to pit because the rub would've blown the tire anyway.

[@ianevans6505]

You are hands down, without a shadow of a doubt, the best nascar content creator on KZbin

[@antz350]

Man I miss those early 2000s gen 4 cars and just overall excitement it was watching it back then. Excellent series, my dad was a big mark martin fan as well. Used to pull for him a lot. Great series looking forward to the next episode

[@garethnoble3378]

The production of this video combined with the presentation and info is amazing. Well done Slapshoe, this series is going to get so many new people into NASCAR.

[@MrTakaMOSHi]

Dang, I forgot how good Marlin was for a minute. His '02 season really could be its own story of what could have been

[@osumbuckeyenut]

Your use of foreshadowing with his choosing the number two for his car was brilliant. Well done brother

[@liliango52]

Your vids are so poetic and enthralling which is why I love your channel!!

[@psychlops924]

I really love the music on this one. Well done, you’re a gifted story teller S1ap

[@salmanazam9444]

I think its fair to say this is your best video ever. Keep up the good work, Slap... Previously, I held "The Greatest Championship Battle Ever..." as your best.

[@it_is_finished]

What an awesome job on the video. Man I miss rooting for Mark on Sunday afternoons.

[@jonnyspa27]

These have been so awesome to listen to on Sunday mornings. Thanks for making these man!

[@dillongates3710]

One of the best videos you made and I can’t wait until next week

[@jrfan07]

Mark was favorite driver in the 90's as a kid and when this Dale Jr guy showed up in cup I basically had two favorite drivers at the same time from 2000-2010, it was a very weird and strange time having two drivers I cheered for almost equally but I loved it, good times :)

[@crippledcrusader1321]

That Daytona finish is just so heartbreaking

[@originaldaze]

These videos just keep getting better and better

[@michaelerickson5724]

This stuff should be on tv its great!

[@pigeontowedprivileged967]

Great content. Keep em’ comin’

[@TheBigIrrelevant]

This feels like the Seattle Mariners SBNation video... And I absolutely love it.

[@FireballTalksNASCAR]

Wow. Another episode. This is great content!

[@stevendezwaan5707]

Slap, your videos are always fantastic. I'm always looking forward to the next one. Thank you for all the great content.

[@WiggysanWiggysan]

You nailed it (again) Slap. Excellent production work by the way.

[@brianbess1239]

These videos are literally the best👍🏼

[@oN3xShOtxkilL]

It’s amazing what you’ve done within the 2 years I’ve been subscribed my man! Congrats

[@kevinsanders3630]

Mark’s 2001 season wasn’t his best, but his paint scheme that year was the best Viagra/Pfizer paint scheme. As a someone else who followed Mark in 2001 and was also in middle school, I wore my black and Blue shirt with “Viagra” written in between two checkered flags, and a black hat with the blue Pfizer logo many times from 2001-2002, and every time people over 50 were definitely side eyeing like I was there to hand out free samples. Lol.

[@dolantho]

Bro I love you content as a nascar fan coming back since I was a kid

[@mathewmclean9128]

Me being a hardcore prankster, and a class comedian, looking back on the early 2000s and my hardcore fandom of nascar, I'm actually surprised I didn't have any Mark Martin apparel and wear it to school once or twice just to turn heads...

[@JayBeingNatural]

2:00 Ohhh, so that's why Mark had the Mark Martin car in NASCAR Thunder 2002

[@terskatti4994]

Mark's every 2nd or 3rd place finish is thousand times more respectable than Logano's fake chase championship.

[@greghansen8900]

Thank you for the series on mark.

[@d00dEEE]

Awesome storytelling, keep it coming!

[@mtfan]

Pixar should hire you with the way you’re destroying my emotions over here. Mark was my favorite too. The amount of times I just had to look down and sigh after a piece of misfortune are too many to count.

[@BloodyBoyBlue]

The No Bull 5 was decided by the top 5 finishers in the previous No Bull event, not the points

[@radarmike6713]

Mark will forever be the greatest drive to race NASCAR. he showed what a true winner is. a person who can loose but yet have a stoic pride that no one can touch.

[@mikereynolds6118]

I love your Vids and how you Break it all Down!! Do appreciate you!!!

[@nashguy207]

Great series on one of the nest drivers to ever race in Nascar's top division!

[@jordanoxley1728]

Great video on an even greater driver can't wait for the next one

[@DemonGiraffe95]

As a Mark Martin fan this era was always the most painful imo. Seeing him come so close again to a championship, then seeing his teammates win it back to back years and then seeing them finish second in back to back years as Jimmie Johnson's era of dominance began, to Martin's retirement tease and shift to part time, the 2007 Daytona 500 finish..... and yeah the Viagra jokes. And as much as I loved Martin I despised Hendrick Motorsports. When he signed with Hendrick it really felt like he took a deal with the devil to win a championship. The epitome of if you can't beat 'em join 'em.

[@taipeijoey101]

This guy used SOPHIE and music from Jon Bois's 'Pretty Good'. He has some awesome taste.

[@steve5926]

I was a Jerrett Fan but I now have a new found respect for Mark!

[@andrewwagner6851]

Right on time!

[@mezahmk]

nice?

[@xaviersaavedra7442]

Here we go

[@paulamina59]

I teared up watching this video. Mark is a true sportsman, and I don't care that he didn't win the damned Championship. In my eyes he did it right and he is a Champion in life. Throughout the years he drove I only remember 4 times that he ever caused an accident. Your feelings mimics mine and how I felt those days. Wondered what would have been if he would have driven for another organization like Henricks. Wouldn't he be the 8th time Champion and remembered as the best driver ever driving in Cup? I wish him and his family all the best. Miss him a lot and sad he is not somehow involved anymore. But I am glad he is healthy, and enjoying life. I hope some how he reads this article and knows how much he is loved and missed by nation of his old fans.

[@Mister_Matt_____1]

Me: Viagra was sensored in the NASCAR video games and known as “The Mark Martin Ford” NASCAR Video Games: You kids will understand why someday when you’re older...

[@biggallcaps]

Nascar Thunder 2004 had the car sponsored with the parent company Pfizer

[@Mister_Matt_____1]

@@biggallcaps Damn... that’s right...

[@ashleycrane415]

I didn’t really pay much attention to NASCAR. It’s pretty unknown in Europe, but, one day one of your videos about a forgotten track drops into my news feed. Little did I know a southern native was lining me up with a rabbit hole and getting ready to push me down it. Now I’m bootlegging race broadcasts because Britain only gets 45 minute highlights and I’m on to my 2nd season on Heat. I’m holding you responsible for all of that.

[@joshuafarmer3467]

This video is freaking great.

[@jacksonwhite2584]

I am a huge Mark fan too. I remember when I went to my first race at Michigan in 2005. My family thought it would be nice to see him race before he retired. I was 8 or 9 so I feel ya when you say it was weird wearing a Viagra shirt in middle school haha. I wore it proudly

[@COCarDude]

I was at that 2002 Coke 600 and got to see my favorite driver beat my second favorite driver (kenseth). It was incredible, I was 12 years old.

[@thejohnsons2123]

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!

[@aaronpullen4836]

Love your videos. I was the biggest Mark Martin fan. Unfortunately I started watching in 2001.

[@zapthathattrick]

I'm a huge Mark Martin fan and this gave me goosebumps

[@mikebrissette2241]

I feel your pain my friend I absolutely love mark the best driver to never win a championship

[@TracksideViews]

8:44 I’d completely forgot about that!

[@tylerrehkopf]

5:55 you fail to mention the change to the iconic silver bullet paint job had to contribute to Sterlin's success

[@marklittle8805]

Being a Mark Martin fan was like being a Cub fan or Red Sox fan...except in the end they did win. Mark just had fate tell him to take a hike over and over again

[@greatestbrand5191]

these videos hurt man :( , but well done as always

[@gorjlg]

Wasn't the No Bull bonus the top 5 from the previous No Bull race? If you finished top 5 at 1 race, you were eligible for the next race. Enjoy your content. Keep it up.

[@LarryStranger]

To this day, the title of video makes me feel complex emotion. The idea of our hero running out of time hurts my soul.

[@STRGHTSXBNZ]

This man puts Gran Turismo music into his vids. Immediate like.

[@tomi_tittums]

Awesome video as usual Slap, I've got an interesting story about my relationship with Mark Martin during this era. Living in Australia, I never really got into to Nascar until very recently. I went on a trip to LA with my family around 2004 or 2005 when I was 5 or 6, and I had my birthday while I was over there. My dad got me a big Hot Wheels pullback model of the #6 Pfizer Ford Taurus, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I was too young to know what Pfizer or Viagra were, but the car was a slick black with blue and white highlights, my favourite colour combo, so that's why I absolutely adored it. Needless to say, it got me into Mark Martin, despite not being able to follow it very much Nascar at the time, and it still remains my favourite racing car livery of all time, all dick jokes aside. I'm 21 now and I've still got that model. It sits on a shelf in my bedroom. I ain't ever letting it go. Shame it never got Mark that championship he so truly deserved.

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

Great video liked 👍🏁🏆

[@ooiysen]

You will always be one of the greats

[@King1614]

That Sterling Marlin intro made Sterling Marlin the coolest driver ever.

[@mcj88]

2:01 - Yet not NR2003, oddly. Even that game's default carset has the Viagra sponsorship uncensored, in contrast to EA's games which either put Mark Martin's name on the #6 (Thunder 2002) or just sub in the token Pfizer scheme they'd run once a year instead (NT2003 onward). Never quite understood how they got away with that, especially since Dale Jr.'s and Rusty's cars were also censored in that game.

[@ScrollsofSombra]

Perscription-drug-Alcohol double standards

[@Diskord1982]

We need more uploads. While I do not watch NASCAR I watch the *shit* out of this channel.

[@JohnnyUtah13]

This series of videos is amazing. I was never a huge Martin, always liked him, but this series has REALLY shown me how good Martin was. Great Job dude. Please do a series like this about Dale Jr. Obviously not the same circumstances, but the emotional roller coaster us fans were on sounded very familiar.....