Saturday, January 26, 2008

2007 NNCS: The Top-50 Drivers - #40

Sterling Marlin #14 Waste Management Chevy
Ginn Racing
40th in driver points (1752)
S: 21 ||| W: 0 ||| T5: 0 ||| T10: 0 ||| DNF: 4 ||| LL: 18


Marlin hasn't had a competitive year since 2002, and his 2007 was, simply put, painful. He scored a couple of modest 16th place runs in the 14 car before being replaced in July by the erratic Ginn, who later sold his operation to DEI.

He then went on to attempt a few races in the 78 car, and then settled for two field filler runs in the Miccosukee 09 car. He will pilot that car in 7-9 races in 2008, but aside from plate tracks, that 09 is usually quite uncompetitive, so we shouldn't expect much.

This sort of falls into the Bill Elliott category; nice guy, but he hasn't run well in almost six years.

2008 prediction: Maybe a couple top-20s, but he's only running 9 races so points don't matter

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