I didn't see the new conference, is it a one year deal?

From the way they talked most likely but no numbers were discussed. Seems to be open ended, Mark makes the decisions.


we didn't get to see the questions and answers session so don't really know for sure.

Mark Martin=The Brett Favre of Nascar

Yea i saw it earlier on Speed, good for Mark and Hendrick Motorsports ..

- Earnh8rdt

earnh8rdt - 04 July 2008 12:13 PM

Yea i saw it earlier on Speed, good for Mark and Hendrick Motorsports ..

- Earnh8rdt

To quote someone else: This is as exciting as Kathy Lee going to the TODAY SHOW!

I feel bad for some of his fans that were buying into all the retirement merchandise starting in 05, then again in 06... I'll always remember him talking about how the schedule was too long and he just didn't want to do it anymore. Wonder what the Cat in the hat is thinking about all this?

Mark said during qualifying for Nationwide that it was a 2 year deal.

Martin back to fulltime in 2009, to the #5 HMS car:

Mark Martin has signed a two-year agreement to drive for Hendrick Motorsports beginning in 2009. Martin will race the full 2009 Sprint Cup schedule in the #5 Kellogg’s/CARQUEST Chevy, becoming teammates with #24-Jeff Gordon, #48-Jimmie Johnson and #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. It will mark his first full season of Cup competition since 2006, when he finished ninth in points. A Batesville, Ark., native, Martin also is slated to run a partial Sprint Cup schedule for Hendrick Motorsports in 2010, sharing the #5 Chevys with a to-be-determined second driver. Martin will enter 26 events, including the non-points Budweiser Shootout and Sprint All-Star Race. “Mark is an incredible racer and one of the classiest guys around,” said Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick, whose organization will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2009. “He is a driver who makes everyone around him better, and our entire company is going to benefit from his presence.”

“I feel very fortunate to have this chance to win races and go after a championship with Hendrick Motorsports,” Martin said. “Coming back full time wasn’t something we planned, but driving the #5 car, with all its history, was an impossible opportunity to pass up. Rick and I have enjoyed a great relationship over the years, and we’ve always talked about doing this. Now it’s working out, and we’re both excited about the possibilities.” Martin, 49, will be paired with crew chief Alan Gustafson, who now is in his fourth season at the helm of the #5 Kellogg’s/CARQUEST Chevy team. Gustafson has posted four Sprint Cup wins as a crew chief and has a history with Martin, having worked with him in multiple Nationwide Series events.

(HMS PR/Markmartin.com)(7-4-2008)

Mark made a comment on how the past two years of racing part time has 'rekindled his passion for racing'.

Does that mean that driving for Roush killed his passion for racing?

Jeff Gordon
Jimmie Johnson
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Mark Martin

That is one hell of a driver lineup. You've got the most dominant driver from 1995-2001, the 2-time defending Champ, the most popular driver and a driver who has finished 2nd in points 4 times.

Well done Mr. Hendrick, well done.