{"id":10903,"date":"2013-11-11T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=10903"},"modified":"2013-11-12T10:07:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T15:07:36","slug":"rick-hendrick-believes-mark-martin-will-race-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/11\/11\/rick-hendrick-believes-mark-martin-will-race-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Hendrick believes Mark Martin will race again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mark Martin sounded as if he career in NASCAR was coming to a close at Homestead when he spoke to reporters prior to the running of the Advocare 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time that Martin had implied that he was done racing stock cars and one of his biggest supporters is not ready to declare the Batesville, AR driver as retired.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s still super-competitive, and I wouldn\u2019t bet that he doesn\u2019t show up again,\u201d Rick Hendrick said via the Arizona Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hendrick went on to cite the difference Martin has made at his various stops during his NASCAR career.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverywhere he goes, he\u2019s made a difference,\u201d said Hendrick, whose current stable includes Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAt his age (54), he deserves to take a break if he wants to, but he\u2019s still an awesome driver. \u201cI\u2019m just telling you, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised, as good as he is, if someone (team) gets in a jam and needs a driver, they\u2019ll be calling him. And I bet he comes back.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about Hendricks comments, Martin admitted he could return to a racecar again under a few circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t imagine not getting called. I\u2019m prepared to deal with that on a one-on-one basis. … I won\u2019t be in the Daytona 500 under any circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Martin sounded as if he career in NASCAR was coming to a close at Homestead when he spoke to reporters prior to the running of the Advocare 500 at Phoenix International Raceway. It is not the first time that Martin had implied that he was done racing stock cars and one of his biggest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[399,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-10903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-mark-martin","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}