By Rick Houston
Mark Martin burst upon the NASCAR landscape in 1981 with a world of talent and all kinds of promise. Two years later, he was hanging on by a thread. He’d been hired by the fledgling Morgan-McClure Motorsports, and things didn’t exactly go the way anybody might’ve hoped. Crew chief G.C. Spencer wasn’t a huge Martin supporter, and it showed. After six races together, the two sides parted. It would be another eight years before Martin returned to the Winston Cup tour, this time with another new team, Roush Racing. And so began, again, a career that would eventually land Martin in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. This is Larry McClure’s story.
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