Sterling Marlin

Sterling Marlin, running in second, was to let Kurt Busch go and let him take second only to get run into by him. Radio conversations from Busch and his team over the crash.  

Like every morning, I woke up and went on jayski.com and expected my day to start off better by hopefully reading something good this morning. Instead I read that Sterling Marlin is calling it a career after 33 seasons. My heart sunk. I love Sterling Marlin. One of NASCAR's most favorite drivers. Sterling has "ran" seven races in 2009, but it was a start-and-park effort for Phoenix Racing's No. 09 team. Sterling's last Top-10 finish was...  

Did You Notice? … Sterling Marlin was still racing competitively? Seriously, the poor guy hasn’t run the full distance in a Cup show since Homestead in November, 2008. So that’s why, at 52, it’s no surprise to see one of the sport’s unique characters finally sit back and call it a career, all but announcing his retirement to Larry Woody of Racin’ Today this week. He’s spent this year failing to finish all seven of his starts, starting and...