Martin<\/a> explained how the Newell coaches are built from scratch. Only 26 of them are made in a year, and the former driver gets to play a crucial role in them.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cTheir team starts with two frame rails in the floor and builds it from there. It\u2019s custom from the very ground up. Like, you know, you can move anything a half inch anywhere. I mean, it\u2019s more detailed than even building a house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone that I build after I use it for about a year and a half, I know ideas of what I want to do differently. And also in that year and a half or or two years, their technology, you know, they bring some things to the table. I bring some things to the table and then together we build something that is just magnificent. After two years, I start thinking about building a new one. And there\u2019s a waiting there\u2019s a line for my old coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Newell Coach features a chrome-plated Performance Diesel engine with the No. 6 engraved on it. Notably, these coaches aren\u2019t his only side project in retirement.<\/p>\n
He was also in the headlines often this year for his criticism of the current playoff format. He was the one on the front lines of the battle and played a crucial role in getting NASCAR to prepare a format change.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is outright incredible to see retired drivers keep the fire in their hearts burning through such projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Martin is one of the greatest drivers that NASCAR has seen in its long history. He retired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,115858,24807,634,82],"class_list":["post-271981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kenny-wallace","tag-mark-martin","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}