Martin takes wreck filled Southern 500

Posted: 05.09.2009 at 11:02 PM

Read more: Nascar, Racing, Mark, Martin, Jimmie, Johnson, Darlington, Raceway, Southern, 500

DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) - If Mark Martin keeps winning like this,
even he might have to concede that he's racing for a Sprint Cup
championship.

The 50-year-old Martin won for the second time in four races,
outlasting Jimmie Johnson in a wreck-filled show at Darlington
Raceway on Saturday night.

Martin's only other win here came at the 1993 Southern 500, a
16-year stretch.

Martin's victory ended a long, hot Saturday for NASCAR that
began with the sobering news of Jeremy Mayfield's failed drug test
and indefinite suspension, which was announced about two hours
before the start of the race.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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