Marlin’s daughter plans to race: Sutherlin Marlin, the 19-year-old daughter of Sterling Marlin, this season launches her racing career at Fairgrounds Speedway [Nashville], the historic track where her grandfather Coo Coo won four championships in the 1960s and her dad collected three more in the 1980s.”I attended my first race there when I was two weeks old,” says Sutherlin.”Ive been around racing all my life and I cant wait to give it a try.” A student at Columbia State, Sutherlin is bright and vivacious, and inherited her familys keen sense of humor.”Shes got talent,” says her dad.”When she was 5 or 6 we went to a go-kart track in Panama City and she raced against (big brother) Steadman and a bunch of other boys and beat them. Shes been on to me to get her a race car and finally we cut a deal.” The deal: Sutherlin goes to college and works on her race car.”Ill help,” Sterling says,”but shes gotta work, too.” Sutherlin plans to race in the Speedways truck series, a white-knuckle division that runs the swift, high banks of the five-eighths-mile track. It would seem breathless for a beginner.(Nashville City Paper)(3-27-2009)
