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Marlin's first career win came in his 279th career start at the 1994 Daytona 500 driving for Morgan-McClure Motorsports in the #4 Kodak car. He went on to win the 500 again in the following year, becoming only one of three drivers to win consecutive Daytona 500s. The other two men that have accomplished that feat were Richard Petty and Cale Yarborough. He ... became the only driver to have his first two career wins being the Daytona 500. Marlin won two more times during the 1995 season and finished a career high third in the point standings, during a four-year run with Morgan-McClure Motorsports. In 1997, he did not return to victory lane but dropped to twenty-fifth in the final standings.
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Sterling Marlin may be NASCAR’s most diverse athlete and was a standout football and basketball player at Columbia High in Tennessee. Still, there was little doubt about which career path he would take.
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Marlin, who is in his final year of driving the No.40 car, has two Daytona 500 wins to his credit and 10 total NASCAR NEXTEL Cup victories. He has ... posted two third place finishes in the Cup Series points standings. Marlin was the 1983 NEXTEL CUP Series Rookie of the Year.
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There's ... the time Sterling, about 15, and a buddy named Spook were speeding down a country back road, goofing around, when Sterling missed a turn. They sailed off the road and over a cliff. "Lucky for us it wasn't too steep and we landed in some treetops," Sterling says. "We weren't hurt, but Daddy wasn't too happy when we towed the car back home."
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Certainly, if Marlin wants to keep racing, he’s welcome to do so anywhere he can get a ride. But this expectation that aging veterans should be giftwrapped a place to drive around until they retire is just too much of a fairy tale to come true for every man gifted enough to get behind the wheel of a Cup car. Only the best of the best – Petty, Waltrip, Wallace, Labonte – get lucky enough to seal their own fates. Thomas Bowles, FrontStretch
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If there was ever any doubt as to the future of Sterling Marlin then it has been removed. He was released from his ride at Ginn Motorsports which just joined with DEI and he DID NOT find a car to drive for the Allstate 500 at the Brickyard.
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