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Mark began racing stock cars at the age of eighteen and has not looked back since. During his career, Mark has accomplished many feats including winning eighteen track championships, three IMCA Deery Brothers Summer Series championships (1998, 2001 and 2003), the 1998 IMCA National Late Model Championship and the 1994 NASCAR Central Region Points Championship.
Notable
victories include
nineteen Deery Brothers Summer Series events including three Pepsi USA
Late
Model Nationals held annually at 34 Raceway in
Over Mark’s twenty plus year career he has competed in 935 feature events recording an astounding 581 Top 5 finishes (62%) and 192 wins (20%). Mark is a clean racer who garners the respect of all of his competitors and fans alike as evidenced by his fifteen “Favorite Late Model Driver Award” he has earned at various Midwestern tracks.
Mark lives in
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1974 – 1984 -
Raced go-karts through the |
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1984 - First year racing stock cars - Track Championship (Sportsman
Division) - - 8 feature wins (Sportsman
Division) |
1985 - First year racing dirt late models - Rookie of the Year - - 13 Top 5 finishes (45 starts) |
1986 - Top 10 in points at Quincy
Raceways and Holts Summit, MO - 6 Top 5 finishes (33 starts) |
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1987 - Top 10 in points at Quincy
Raceways and Holts Summit, MO - 9 Top 5 finishes (33 starts) |
1988 - Top 10 in points at Quincy
Raceways and Holts Summit, MO - 2 feature wins - 21 Top 5 finishes (40 starts) |
1989 - Top 5 in points at Quincy
Raceways and Holts Summit, MO - Fan’s Favorite Driver -
Quincy - 6 feature wins - 22 Top 5 finishes (46 starts) |
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1990 - Top 10 in points at Quincy
Raceways and Holts Summit, MO - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– Quincy - 1 feature win - 12 Top 5 finishes (39 starts) |
1991 - 4th place
in points – - 8th place
in points – Holts Summit, MO - 3 feature wins - 12 Top 5 finishes (29 starts) |
1992 - Track Championship – - 3rd place
in points – - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 8 feature wins - 22 Top 5 finishes (42 starts) |
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1993 - Track Championship – - 3rd place
in points – - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 6 feature wins - 26 Top 5 finishes (36 starts) |
1994 - NASCAR Central Region Champion - Track Championship – - Track Championship – - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 20 feature wins - 42 Top 5 finishes (43 starts) |
1995 - Track Championship – - Track Championship – - - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 26 feature wins - 48 Top 5 finishes (58 starts) |
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1996 - Track Championship – - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 9 feature wins - 25 Top 5 finishes (43 starts) |
1997 - Track Championship – - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 10 feature wins - 32 Top 5 finishes (37 starts) |
1998 - IMCA Late Model National Champion - IMCA - Track Championship – - Track Championship – - Track Championship (IMCA
Modified)– - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 21 feature wins - 46 Top 5 finishes (54 starts) |
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1999 - Track Championship – - Track Championship – - Track Championship (IMCA
Modified)– - IMCA Late Model National Runner-up - - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 12 feature wins - 38 Top 5 finishes (50 starts) |
2000 - Track Championship – - Track Championship (IMCA
Modified)– - Pepsi USA Nationals Winner held
at 34 Raceway ( - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 12 feature wins - 35 Top 5 finishes (47 starts) |
2001 - Track Championship – - IMCA - 8 feature wins - 24 Top 5 finishes (42 starts) |
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2002 - Started racing more open motor
events - Top 5 in points – - 8 feature wins - 22 Top 5 finishes (43 starts) |
2003 - Track Championship – - IMCA - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 11 feature wins - 28 Top 5 finishes (44 starts) |
2004 - Track Championship (USRA
Modified) – - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - Driver of the Year – - 5 feature wins - 22 Top 5 finishes (35 starts) |
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2005 - Track Championship – - 7 feature wins - 20 Top 5 finishes (28 starts) |
2006 - Track Championship – - Pepsi USA Nationals Winner held
at 34 Raceway ( - USMTS (Modified) Fall Jamboree
Winner held in - Fan’s Favorite Driver
– - 16 feature wins - 28 Top 5 finishes (32 starts) |
2007 - Track Championship – - Pepsi USA Nationals Winner held
at 34 Raceway ( - 11 feature wins - 28 Top 5 finishes (36 starts) |
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