Mark Green (racing driver) explained

Mark Green
Birth Date:	8 April 1959
Birth Place:	Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.
Total Busch Races:	318
Years In Busch:	17
Prev Busch Pos:	53rd
Prev Busch Year:	2011
Best Busch Pos:	11th (1997)
First Busch Race:	1995 Kroger 200 (IRP)
Last Busch Race:	2011 WYPALL* 200 (Phoenix International Raceway)
Busch Wins:	0
Busch Top Tens:	15
Busch Poles:	0
Total Truck Races:	2
Years In Truck:	1
Best Truck Pos:	72nd (1997)
First Truck Race:	1997 Sears DieHard 200 (Milwaukee)
Last Truck Race:	1997 Cummins 200 (IRP)
Truck Wins:	0
Truck Top Tens:	0
Truck Poles:	0
Updated:	September 4, 2012

Mark Green (born April 8, 1959) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He is the brother of drivers, Jeff Green and David Green.

Beginnings

Mark Green began his racing career in 1973, racing go-karts in the Southern Indiana Racing Association. During his tenure, he won six consecutive championships. He then moved on to the late model division at several local speedways. Among the tracks he competed on were Nashville Speedway USA, Beech Bend Raceway and Kentucky Motor Speedway. From 1988 to 1991, he also competed in the All-American Challenge Series. In 1993, he won 16 of 20 races at Beech Bend and won the track championships there, from 1991 to 1993.

1995–2000

Green made his Busch debut in 1995 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. He qualified the #41 Brewco Motorsports Chevrolet in the twenty-eighth spot and finished eighteenth. He signed to run ten more races in 1996, in the #37 Timber Wolf-sponsored Chevy. He posted his first career top-ten at Myrtle Beach Speedway, where he finished tenth, in addition to qualifying on the outside pole. In 1997, Green and Brewco ran the full schedule, posting five top-tens including a career-best fifth-place finish at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He finished 11th in points. Green also ran two Craftsman Truck Series races that year for Brewco, finishing eleventh at IRP.

In 1998, Green continued to drive for Brewco, but only had four top-ten finishes. After his thirteenth-place points finish, Green departed from the team. He joined Washington-Erving Motorsports, driving the #50 Dr Pepper-sponsored Chevy. His best finish that season was tenth at the Yellow Freight 300 and he dropped to 21st in the standings. He exited the ride due to a lack of funding and drove the #63 Exxon-sponsored Chevy for HVP Motorsports and had a seventh-place run at Talladega Superspeedway.

2001–2005

In 2001, Green was announced as the driver of the #55 Davis & Weight Motorsports Ford Taurus in the Busch Series. After two top-twenty finishes early in the season, Davis & Weight announced it was closing its Busch team to run the Winston Cup Series. When that deal failed to materialize, Green ran out the remainder of the schedule for various teams, his best finish a ninth at Kansas Speedway for ST Motorsports. He also made his first Cup attempt at the NAPA 500 in the #41 for A.J. Foyt Racing, but failed to qualify.

Green began 2002 without a full-time ride. He began driving the #38 Deka Batteries-sponsored Ford for Akins Motorsports, sharing the ride with Christian Elder. He had to miss some time after suffering a broken left foot in a hard crash on the last lap during the spring race at Bristol Motor Speedway with Larry Foyt. He had a second-place qualifying effort at Pikes Peak International Raceway, and ten top-twenty finishes before winding up 32nd in the points. In 2003, he lost his ride and drove five Busch races for various teams, his best finish a 20th at the Stacker 200 for ORTEC Racing. He attempted the Cup race at Lowe's Motor Speedway for Foyt again, but did not qualify.

Green drove various cars for Jay Robinson Racing in 2004. His best finish for Robinson was a 21st at Nazareth Speedway in the #49 Advil Ford. Late in the season, he departed JRR and signed with the fledgling Keith Coleman Racing team, piloting the #26 lovefifi.com Chevrolet. In five starts with KCR, his best finish came at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where he finished 23rd. He began 2005 in the #7 Boudreaux's Butt Paste-sponsored Chevy for GIC-Mixon Motorsports, but returned to KCR to drive its #23 Vassarette-sponsored Chevy, finishing 11th at Talladega. He was released towards the end of the season.

2006–2008

Green was announced as the driver of the #4 Geico-sponsored Dodge Charger for Biagi Brothers Racing in 2006, and opened the year with a tenth-place finish at the Hershey's Kissables 300. Despite two additional fifteenth-place runs, he was dismissed early in the season, replaced by rookie Auggie Vidovich II. After beginning the 2007 season as a test driver for Michael Waltrip Racing, he replaced Justin Diercks in the 70 car owned by ML Motorsports, and finished the year with the team, his best finish being 19th at Gateway. Still with ML Motorsports in 2008, Green had a best finish of 5th at Talladega. Green would go on to post three more top 15s, and had a chance to win at Memphis Motorsports Park before an engine problem put him out of contention.

2009–present

Green started 2009 with the team again. However, Green failed to qualify for the race at Bristol Motor Speedway, and lost his ride shortly thereafter. He then joined JD Motorsports as the driver of the #0 car.After several races, Green swapped with Kertus Davis to join Jay Robinson Racing to drive the 49 car. The #49 car and Mark Green were sponsored by Getmorevacations.com for a portion of the 2009 season. When Getmorevacations.com dropped out of the sponsor position, Juggle.com began to give support. Green finished in 26th place in the final race of 2009 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.2010 brought Green back with Jay Robinson splitting time between the #49, and #70 cars. In most of the races that Green was in the #49, he was a Start and Park. When he was in the #70 (which was a partnership between JRR and ML Motorsports) he ran the distance and had moderate success with several top 25 finishes, and a couple of top 20 finishes.

It was reported that Green had retired in 2011, but ended up driving the #49 car for Jay Robinson Racing during the latter half of the season. In 2012, Green returned for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in the fall at Richmond International Raceway, driving the No. 0 Toyota for SS Motorsports,^[1] but failed to qualify for the event. Green currently serves as Director of Driver Development for Rev Racing, as well as serving as a test driver for the team.

In 2021, Green drove the No. 02 Chevrolet for Young's Motorsports in the ARCA Menards Series race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in place of regular driver Toni Breidinger, his first start in the series since 2001 as well as his first start in a NASCAR sanctioned event since 2011. His entry was also fielded in collaboration with Rev Racing. He would go on to finish in seventeenth after running five laps due to vibrations in the car.^[2]

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.)

Sprint Cup Series

NASCAR Sprint Cup 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	34	35	36		Pts	Ref
2001	A. J. Foyt Racing	41	Pontiac	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	MAR	TAL	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	MCH	POC	SON	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MAR	TAL	PHO	CAR	HOM	ATL DNQ	NHA	NA	-	^[3]
2003	A. J. Foyt Racing	14	Dodge	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	TAL	MAR	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	TAL	KAN	CLT DNQ	MAR DNQ	ATL	PHO	CAR	HOM	NA	-	^[4]
2005	Petty Enterprises	45	Dodge	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	MAR	TEX	PHO	TAL	DAR	RCH	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA QL^†	DOV	TAL	KAN	CLT	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	NA	-	^[5]
2012	SS Motorsports	0	Toyota	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	MAR	TEX	KAN	RCH	TAL	DAR	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	KEN	DAY	NHA	IND	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	ATL	RCH DNQ	CHI	NHA	DOV	TAL	CLT	KAN	MAR	TEX	PHO	HOM	NA	-	^[6]
^† - Qualified for Kyle Petty

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide 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	34	35		Pts	Ref
1995	Brewco Motorsports	41		DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	NSV	DAR	BRI	HCY	NHA	NZH	CLT	DOV	MYB	GLN	MLW	TAL	SBO	IRP 18	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH 28	DOV	CLT	CAR DNQ	HOM DNQ										73rd	188	^[7]
1996		37		DAY	CAR 36	RCH DNQ	ATL	NSV 38	DAR	BRI	HCY DNQ	NZH 19	CLT	DOV	SBO 28	MYB 10	GLN	MLW 19	NHA	TAL	IRP 14	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH 13	DOV	CLT DNQ	CAR 21	HOM 30										46th	947	^[8]
1997				DAY 8	CAR 14	RCH 12	ATL 13	LVS 25	DAR 19	HCY 9	TEX 34	BRI 40	NSV 21	TAL 24	NHA 22	NZH 14	CLT 19	DOV 24	SBO 23	GLN 15	MLW 15	MYB 15	GTY 8	IRP 26	MCH 12	BRI 13	DAR 22	RCH 19	DOV 11	CLT 5	CAL 41	CAR 8	HOM 18						11th	3261	^[9]
1998				DAY 14	CAR 9	LVS 16	NSV 34	DAR 17	BRI 17	TEX 7	HCY 22	TAL 35	NHA 20	NZH 11	CLT 15	DOV 16	RCH 21	PPR 7	GLN 33	MLW 32	MYB 9	CAL 19	SBO 21	IRP 28	MCH 38	BRI 20	DAR 28	RCH 19	DOV 23	CLT 39	GTY 21	CAR 40	ATL 12	HOM 22					13th	3075	^[10]
1999		50		DAY 24	CAR 23	LVS 32	ATL 10	DAR 33	TEX 31	NSV 30	BRI 17	TAL 37	CAL 36	NHA 27	RCH 21	NZH 22	CLT 16	DOV 29	SBO 26	GLN 37	MLW 26	MYB DNQ	PPR 23	GTY 32	IRP 19	MCH 41	BRI 42	DAR 33	RCH 19	DOV 22	CLT 40	CAR 28	MEM 17	PHO 31	HOM DNQ				21st	2419	^[11]
2000	HMV Motorsports	63	Chevy	DAY 18	CAR 26	LVS 27	ATL 29	DAR 40	BRI 13	TEX 25	NSV 41	TAL 7	CAL 25	RCH 24	NHA 25	CLT DNQ	DOV 33	SBO 30	MYB 29	GLN 18	MLW 23	NZH 42	PPR 31	GTY 30	IRP 18	MCH 28	BRI 26	DAR 36	RCH 23	DOV 26	CLT 33	CAR 23	MEM 26	PHO 33					26th	2470	^[12]
			Ford																																HOM DNQ
2001	Davis & Weight Motorsports	55	Ford	DAY 20	CAR 20	LVS 32	ATL 41	DAR 16	BRI 40	TEX 41	NSH 21	TAL 17	CAL	RCH					KEN 16	MLW	GLN																		40th	1198	^[13]
	A. J. Foyt Racing	41	Chevy												NHA 38	NZH	CLT	DOV
	PRW Racing	77	Ford																			CHI 24	GTY	PPR	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR
	A. J. Foyt Racing	14	Chevy																										RCH 36	DOV
		59																													KAN 9	CLT 29	MEM	PHO	CAR	HOM
2002	Akins Motorsports	38	Ford	DAY	CAR	LVS	DAR 17	BRI 17	TEX	NSH	TAL	CAL	RCH 28	NHA	NZH 33	CLT 35	DOV 15	NSH 12		MLW 22	DAY	CHI 41	GTY 22	PPR 19	IRP	MCH	BRI 37	DAR	RCH 16	DOV 20	KAN 16	CLT 30	MEM 38	ATL 28	CAR 19	PHO 14	HOM 30		32nd	1896	^[14]
	ST Motorsports	59	Chevy																KEN QL^†
2003	Akins Motorsports	98	Ford	DAY	CAR	LVS	DAR	BRI	TEX	TAL	NSH	CAL	RCH	GTY	NZH 16	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	PPR	IRP	MCH													70th	467	^[15]
		96	Chevy																								BRI 27	DAR	RCH	DOV 20	KAN	CLT	MEM	ATL	PHO
	Jay Robinson Racing	39	Ford																																	CAR 27
		80																																			HOM 26
2004	ST Motorsports	47	Ford	DAY	CAR	LVS	DAR	BRI	TEX	NSH	TAL QL^‡																												40th	1097	^[16]
	Jay Robinson Racing	39										CAL 42						NSH 28	KEN 23	MLW 23	DAY	CHI
		28											GTY 35	RCH 43			DOV 39						NHA 35	PPR 41			BRI 42	CAL	RCH 41	DOV
		49													NZH 21	CLT									IRP 32	MCH
	Keith Coleman Racing	26																													KAN 34	CLT 24	MEM 34	ATL 23	PHO 33	DAR	HOM DNQ
2005				DAY DNQ	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL																															38th	1423	^[17]
		7							NSH 40	BRI 23	TEX DNQ
	Keith Coleman Racing	23										PHO 22	TAL 11	DAR 22	RCH 22	CLT 25	DOV 32	NSH 41	KEN 33	MLW 28	DAY DNQ	CHI DNQ	NHA 27	PPR 20	GTY 38	IRP 21	GLN DNQ	MCH 33	BRI 28	CAL DNQ	RCH DNQ	DOV 41	KAN DNQ	CLT DNQ	MEM DNQ	TEX	PHO	HOM
2006		4	Dodge	DAY 10	CAL 43	MXC	LVS 31	ATL 28	BRI 22	TEX 33	NSH 38	PHO 15	TAL 28	RCH 15	DAR 27	CLT	DOV	NSH																					45th	934	^[18]
	Michael Waltrip Racing	99	Dodge																KEN QL^±	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	MAR	GTY	IRP	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT
	Joe Gibbs Racing	18	Chevy																																MEM QL^¤	TEX	PHO	HOM
2007	ML Motorsports	70		DAY	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW 21	NHA	DAY 32	CHI 30	GTY 19				MCH 39	BRI 25	CAL	RCH 28	DOV	KAN 24	CLT	MEM	TEX 36	PHO	HOM 30	58th	705	^[19]
	Michael Waltrip Racing	99	Toyota																						IRP QL^±
	Fitz Racing	44	Dodge																							CGV 40	GLN
2008	ML Motorsports	70	Chevy	DAY 41	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI 24	NSH 26	TEX 28	PHO	MXC	TAL 5	RCH 22	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH 14	KEN 22	MLW 13	NHA	DAY 30	CHI 22	GTY 14	IRP 21	CGV	GLN	MCH 23	BRI 24	CAL	RCH 22	DOV	KAN 22	CLT DNQ	MEM 30	TEX 20	PHO	HOM DNQ	30th	1835	^[20]
2009				DAY 18	CAL	LVS	BRI DNQ	TEX																															36th	1498	^[21]
	JD Motorsports	0	Chevy						NSH DNQ	PHO 38		RCH 40	DAR 39	CLT 41	DOV 39	NSH 43	KEN 19
		04									TAL 43
	Jay Robinson Racing	49	Chevy															MLW 35	NHA 36	DAY 39	CHI 43	GTY 35	IRP 43	IOW 38	GLN 38	MCH 36	BRI 38	CGV 33	ATL 40	RCH 38	DOV 42	KAN 38	CAL 35	CLT 38	MEM DNQ	TEX 43	PHO 34	HOM 26
2010				DAY Wth		LVS 41	BRI DNQ	NSH 41		TEX 42	TAL 28	RCH 41				NSH 36	KEN 40			DAY 41	CHI 38	GTY 43	IRP 39	IOW 34		MCH 26	BRI 36			RCH 35		KAN DNQ		CLT 40	GTY DNQ	TEX DNQ		HOM 25	29th	1802	^[22]
	ML Motorsports	70	Chevy		CAL 32				PHO DNQ				DAR 22	DOV 31	CLT 43			ROA 22	NHA 33						GLN 24			CGV 19	ATL 32		DOV 26		CAL 27				PHO 38
2011	Jay Robinson Racing	49	Chevy	DAY	PHO	LVS	BRI	CAL	TEX	TAL	NSH	RCH	DAR	DOV	IOW	CLT	CHI	MCH	ROA	DAY	KEN	NHA	NSH 40	IRP 35	IOW 37	GLN 40	CGV	BRI 38	ATL 42	RCH 40	CHI 35	DOV 36	KAN DNQ	CLT DNQ	TEX DNQ	PHO 36	HOM DNQ		53rd	61	^[23]
^† - Qualified for Stacy Compton · ^‡ - Qualified for Robert Pressley · ^± - Qualified for David Reutimann · ^¤ - Qualified for J. J. Yeley

Craftsman Truck Series

ARCA Menards Series

(key) (

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

ARCA Menards 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		Pts	Ref
2001	Roulo Brothers Racing	39	Ford	DAY	NSH	WIN	SLM	GTY	KEN	CLT	KAN	MCH	POC	MEM	GLN	KEN	MCH	POC	NSH	ISF	CHI 21	DSF	SLM	TOL	BLN	CLT	TAL	ATL	149th	125	^[25]
2021	Young's Motorsports	02	Chevy	DAY	PHO	TAL	KAN	TOL	CLT	MOH	POC	ELK	BLN	IOW	WIN	GLN	MCH	ISF	MLW	DSF	BRI	SLM	KAN						102nd	27	^[26]

External links

• Mark Green.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: New Sprint Cup team to debut at RIR. Adamczyk. Jay. September 4, 2012. Jayski's Silly Season Site. ESPN. 2012-09-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20131116074512/http://www.jayski.com/cupnews.htm. November 16, 2013. dead.
2. Web site: ARCA: Mark Green’s ARCA return is short-lived at Mid-Ohio . LASTCAR.info. August 30, 2023.
3. Web site: Mark Green – 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
4. Web site: Mark Green – 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
5. Web site: Mark Green – 2005 Sylvania 300. Jayski. September 16, 2015.
6. Web site: Mark Green – 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
7. Web site: Mark Green – 1995 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
8. Web site: Mark Green – 1996 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
9. Web site: Mark Green – 1997 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
10. Web site: Mark Green – 1998 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
11. Web site: Mark Green – 1999 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
12. Web site: Mark Green – 2000 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
13. Web site: Mark Green – 2001 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
14. Web site: Mark Green – 2002 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
15. Web site: Mark Green – 2003 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
16. Web site: Mark Green – 2004 NASCAR Busch Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
17. Web site: Mark Green – 2005 NASCAR Busch Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
18. Web site: Mark Green – 2006 NASCAR Busch Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
19. Web site: Mark Green – 2007 NASCAR Busch Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
20. Web site: Mark Green – 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
21. Web site: Mark Green – 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
22. Web site: Mark Green – 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
23. Web site: Mark Green – 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
24. Web site: Mark Green – 1997 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
25. Web site: Mark Green – 2001 ARCA Re/Max Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 28, 2015.
26. Web site: Mark Green – 2021 ARCA Menards Series Results. Racing-Reference. June 4, 2021.