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Marty Houston
Born (1968-01-07) January 7, 1968 (age 56)
Hickory, North Carolina
Achievements1997 HMS Track Champion
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
19 races run over 2 years
Best finish37th (2001)
First race2000 Sam's Club 200 (Rockingham)
Last race2001 Outback Steakhouse 300 (Kentucky)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
44 races run over 3 years
Best finish12th (2000)
First race1999 NAPA 300K (Pikes Peak)
Last race2003 Ford 200 (Homestead)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 11 0
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.

Racing career

Craftsman Truck Series

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.

Busch Series

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.

Post-racing career

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.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.

Busch Series

NASCAR Busch Series results
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]

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
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]

Winston West Series

NASCAR Winston West Series results
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]

References

  1. ^ Nascar Truck official results Archived 2010-05-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Marty Houston – 2000 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  3. ^ "Marty Houston – 2001 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  4. ^ "Marty Houston – 1999 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  5. ^ "Marty Houston – 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  6. ^ "Marty Houston – 2003 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  7. ^ "Marty Houston – 2000 NASCAR Winston West Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
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