{"id":382030,"date":"2026-01-01T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382030\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:25:07","slug":"mark-martin-on-what-nascar-got-wrong-and-building-better-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382030\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Martin on what NASCAR got wrong and building better cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\">NASCAR icon Mark Martin joins Paul Tracy on Racers Unchained for a wide-ranging, brutally honest conversation about racing, confidence, aging, and the evolution of the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\">With 40 Cup Series wins, 49 Busch\/Xfinity Series wins, five IROC championships and inductions into both the NASCAR Hall of Fame and Motorsports Hall of Fame, Mark reflects on what truly made him competitive \u2013 not raw aggression, but building a better race car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\">Mark opens up about:<\/p>\n<p>Why he knew it was time to walk away from drivingGetting back behind the wheel at Laguna Seca years after retirementHow processing speed and confidence define elite driversHis deep involvement in car setup during his years at Roush RacingThe shift from \u201ceyeball engineering\u201d to simulation-driven racingWhat he believes NASCAR got wrong with the Next Gen carWhy closer fields don\u2019t always mean better racingThe importance of cars looking right to fans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR icon Mark Martin joins Paul Tracy on Racers Unchained for a wide-ranging, brutally honest conversation about racing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-382030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382030","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=382030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}