Marty Houston | |||||||
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Born | Hickory, North Carolina, U.S. | January 7, 1968||||||
Achievements | 1997 Hickory Motor Speedway Track Champion | ||||||
NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
19 races run over 2 years | |||||||
Best finish | 37th (2001) | ||||||
First race | 2000 Sam's Club 200 (Rockingham) | ||||||
Last race | 2001 Outback Steakhouse 300 (Kentucky) | ||||||
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
44 races run over 3 years | |||||||
Best finish | 12th (2000) | ||||||
First race | 1999 NAPA 300K (Pikes Peak) | ||||||
Last race | 2003 Ford 200 (Homestead) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of July 10, 2012. |
Marty Houston (born January 7, 1968, in Hickory, North Carolina) is a former NASCAR driver. His younger brother, Andy and father Tommy Houston have driven in NASCAR as well.
Marty Houston made his debut seven races into the 1999 Craftsman Truck Series season, replacing Lonnie Rush in the famed No. 75 Spears Motorsports Chevy. His first race was at Pikes Peak, where Marty easily made it into the race with a 13th place starting effort, but his engine blew up and finished 29th midway into the race. [1] Houston could only manage one top-10 in 1999, a 6th at Nazareth, although he did have ten top-20s in nineteen starts.
Despite the struggles in 1999, Houston was invited back for 2000, and Houston made the most of it. Houston came out of the gates leading two laps at the season opener at Daytona and was running in the top-10 when he got caught up in "The Big One." Yet, Houston finished tenth the next race, which proved to be one of ten times in 2000 he would finish in the top-10. The best was his eventual career best 4th at Kentucky, where he also earned his best career start of 3rd. (He also started 3rd at Phoenix) Perhaps most impressively was his average finish of 14.4. His worst position in 2000 was a pair of 25th-place runs, and finished 12th in points. Houston was noticed by Armando Fitz and got a new ride in the Busch Series for 2001, leaving the No. 75.
Houston did eventually make one more start in 2003, but that was clouded in controversy. Driving a fifth Ultra Motorsports Dodge in the season ending Ford 200, Houston started 18th and was running on the lead lap when he got loose in Turn 4 on Lap 100. He came down and slammed Brendan Gaughan, who was leading the points standings going into the race and who could've been overtaken by Houston's teammate Ted Musgrave for the championship. The wreck cost Gaughan the series championship and many Gaughan fans felt that Houston had intentionally wrecked Gaughan, though the team emphatically denied it. Gaughan himself was not happy about the wreck, specifically criticizing the fact that Houston was in the race and that Ultra Motorsports had fielded so many trucks in the race.
Houston, while driving for Spears Motorsports in 2000, agreed to drive the No. 82 Channellock Chevy in the late stages of the season for Felix Sabates. Houston made his series debut at Rockingham, qualifying in 36th and finished 28th. He had a 32nd at Phoenix, and a 14th-place finish at Homestead.
Sabates sold his team to Armando Fitz in early 2001. He started off with an eventual career-best finish of 13th at Daytona. From there, Houston's season went downhill. In 16 starts, the rookie Houston did not finish five times. In addition, Houston only had four top-20 finishes. Houston had been steadily improving though, as 2001 hit mid-season, but Fitz was not satisfied and Houston was released from the team in favor of Ron Hornaday.
In 2002, Houston had been working on the No. 2 Ultra Motorsports Dodge for three years as tire changer. After the team closed in 2005, Houston went to work as a tire changer for Morgan-Dollar Motorsports on Kraig Kinser's crew.
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.
NASCAR Busch Series results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | NBSC | Pts | Ref | ||
2000 | SABCO Racing | 82 | Chevy | DAY | CAR | LVS | ATL | DAR | BRI | TEX | NSV | TAL | CAL | RCH | NHA | CLT | DOV | SBO | MYB | GLN | MLW | NZH | PPR | GTY | IRP | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | CLT | CAR 28 | MEM | PHO 32 | HOM 14 | 75th | 267 | [2] | |||
2001 | Fitz Motorsports | 11 | Chevy | DAY 13 | CAR 42 | LVS 36 | ATL 33 | DAR 20 | BRI 14 | TEX 25 | NSH 23 | TAL 37 | CAL 32 | RCH 38 | NHA 30 | NZH 25 | CLT 32 | DOV 17 | KEN 21 | MLW | GLN | CHI | GTY | PPR | IRP | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | KAN | CLT | MEM | PHO | CAR | HOM | 37th | 1294 | [3] |
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | NCTC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||
1999 | Spears Motorsports | 75 | Chevy | HOM | PHO | EVG | MMR | MAR | MEM | PPR 29 | I70 26 | BRI 23 | TEX 26 | PIR 12 | GLN 21 | MLW 23 | NSV 13 | NZH 6 | MCH 21 | NHA 21 | IRP 20 | GTY 32 | HPT 20 | RCH 20 | LVS 13 | LVL 20 | TEX 17 | CAL 20 | 23rd | 1958 | [4] | |||||||||||||
2000 | DAY 18 | HOM 10 | PHO 21 | MMR 22 | MAR 19 | PIR 9 | GTY 25 | MEM 17 | PPR 10 | EVG 25 | TEX 7 | KEN 4 | GLN 17 | MLW 6 | NHA 10 | NZH 19 | MCH 8 | IRP 13 | NSV 18 | CIC 20 | RCH 14 | DOV 7 | TEX 19 | CAL 8 | 12th | 2942 | [5] | |||||||||||||||||
2003 | Ultra Motorsports | 10 | Dodge | DAY | DAR | MMR | MAR | CLT | DOV | TEX | MEM | MLW | KAN | KEN | GTW | MCH | IRP | NSH | BRI | RCH | NHA | CAL | LVS | SBO | TEX | MAR | PHO | HOM 30 | 121st | 73 | [6] |
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | NWCC | Pts | Ref | ||||
2000 | Spears Motorsports | 75 | Chevy | PHO | MMR 9 | LVS | CAL | LAG | IRW | POR | EVG | IRW | RMR | MMR | IRW | 51st | 138 | [7] |
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