In winning the Coors Light Pole Award at Daytona International Speedway, Mark Martin became the eighth driver with 50 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series poles.
With a speed of 182.065 mph (49.433 seconds), Martin won his third Daytona pole, and joined an exclusive list that features some of the sport’s all-time greats.
Martin won seven poles in 2009, the largest single-season number of a NASCAR Sprint Cup career that began in 1981.
Martin’s 49th pole came last season, for the 2010 Daytona 500, when he became the oldest pole winner in the race’s history at age 51.
Of his previous 49 poles, Martin has won the corresponding race eight times, with 26 top fives and 37 top 10s.
Martin’s first pole came in the third start of his NASCAR Sprint Cup career, at Nashville Speedway in July of 1981, at the age of 22. Martin won two poles in just five starts that season.
Pole number 50 comes in his 811th start, at the age of 52.
Martin has won at least one pole at 19 different tracks, the most coming at Bristol Motor Speedway (nine).
POS CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet 2 21 Trevor Bayne Ford 3 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 4 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 5 6 David Ragan Ford 6 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 7 71 Andy Lally* Ford 8 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 9 43 A.J. Allmendinger Ford 10 27 Paul Menard Chevrolet 11 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 12 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 13 4 Kasey Kahne Toyota 14 99 Carl Edwards Ford 15 9 Marcos Ambrose Ford 16 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 17 16 Greg Biffle Ford 18 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 19 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 20 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 21 51 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 22 97 Kevin Conway Toyota 23 0 David Reutimann Toyota 24 47 Bobby Labonte Toyota 25 22 Kurt Busch Dodge 26 2 Brad Keselowski Dodge 27 38 Travis Kvapil Ford 28 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet 29 60 Mike Skinner Toyota 30 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet 31 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 32 13 Casey Mears Toyota 33 66 Michael McDowell Toyota 34 56 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 35 135 Geoff Bodine Chevrolet 36 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 37 20 Joey Logano Toyota 38 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 39 34 David Gilliland Ford 40 36 Dave Blaney Chevrolet 41 32 Terry Labonte Ford 42 7 Mike Bliss+ Dodge 43 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota
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