Justin Marks Biography
Justin Marks (born March 25, 1981) is an American racing driver, entrepreneur, and owner of Trackhouse Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 10 Chevrolet Camaro for Kaulig Racing.
Marks has competed in sports car and stock car racing, competing in the ARCA Racing Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He also served as a road course ringer in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and Cup Series.
Early years
Marks was born in St. Louis, Missouri. During his youth, he went with his grandfather (who lived in Iowa), to see local Midwest racers such as Dick Trickle, Ken Schrader, and the Wallace brothers battle on dirt tracks. His family moved to Menlo Park, California, when Marks was eight. Marks attended race school while in high school and in 1998 competed in his first race, in the street stock division at Altamont Raceway Park in Tracy, California. At the same time as his racing career was beginning, he was attending California State University with the intention of obtaining a degree in sports marketing. Marks withdrew from college 14 credits shy of completing his degree to focus on racing.
Racing career
Sports car racing
At 18, Marks entered the SCCA Regional Racing Series, and later the Speed World Challenge Series. With success in the SCCA, Marks moved to the Rolex Sports Car Series GT Cl* in 2004 where he met good friend Joey Hand. Switching between the GT cl* and the World Challenge, Marks racked up four wins, eight podiums, and thirteen top tens between the two series. In 2005 Marks again raced in the Rolex Sports Car Series where he won 3 races with teammate Joey Hand. At the same time, Marks teamed with Bill Auberlen in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge for Turner Motorsport, finishing 3rd in points with 5 poles and 5 wins in 9 starts.
NASCAR
Marks' No. 9 truck for Germain Racing in the garage at Lowe's Motor Speedway in 2008.Marks during qualifying for the 2010 NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.In 2006, Marks left road racing to pursue a career in NASCAR. In 2006, Marks raced for RAB Racing in the ARCA RE/MAX Series, driving their No. 65. Although he did not pick up any wins in his two years there, Marks turned many heads with his driving ability. In 2007 he was picked up by Germain Racing of the Craftsman Truck Series to drive their No. 03 truck. Marks again impressed many with an eighth-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway. This cemented his future as the driver of the No. 9 Crocs/Construct Corps Toyota for 2008, running for Rookie of the Year.
In 2008, Marks raced in the Truck Series, the Nationwide Series, and the ARCA RE/MAX Series for a number of teams. He won the pole position for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway as well as the ARCA RE/MAX Series season opener at Daytona International Speedway. Marks returned to the Camping World Truck Series for 2011, driving for Turn One Racing in the No. 66 Chevrolet.
Marks during the 2013 Toyota/Save Mart 350In 2013, Marks made his Sprint Cup Series debut at Sonoma Raceway in the 2013 Toyota/Save Mart 350, driving the No. 7 of Tommy Baldwin Racing, subs*uting for Dave Blaney. Marks had little experience in the Generation 6 cars, having run the cars only once in a road course test at Virginia International Raceway.
Marks racing at Road America in 2014.The following year, Marks was signed by Turner Scott Motorsports to run the No. 31 in the Nationwide Series at Road America and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
On February 10, Marks announced he would return to the Cup Series in 2015, driving the No. 29 for RAB Racing in the Daytona 500, while also running the No. 29 in the Xfinity Series and the No. 35 with Win-Tron Racing in the other Daytona races. However, Marks failed to qualify for the 500, and crashed out of both the Xfinity and Truck races, finishing last in the latter. In June, he joined Front Row Motorsports for the Toyota/Save Mart 350.
In the summer of 2015, Marks ran the road course races at Road America and Mid-Ohio in the Xfinity Series, driving the No. 42 Chevrolet for Chip Gan*i Racing, owned by Harry Scott, Jr.
Marks' 2016 Xfinity car.In 2016, Marks expanded his Chip Gan*i Racing schedule in the Xfinity Series, driving the No. 42 in several races starting at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. At the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Marks led a race-high 43 laps in a race plagued by rain to claim his first NASCAR victory; he dedicated the win to former Gan*i driver Bryan Clauson, who had died earlier in the week in an accident.
In 2017, Marks returned to the Xfinity Series driving the No. 42 for Chip Gan*i Racing at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course finishing 9th and at Road America finishing 4th. On October 15, Marks joined Tommy Baldwin Racing's No. 7 for his return to the Cup Series at Talladega Superspeedway. It was his first non road course start in the Monster Energy series. However he finished last after getting into an incident.
In 2018, Marks ran the season opening Daytona 500 in the No. 51 for Rick Ware Racing with support from Premium Motorsports. He brought the car home 12th, which was by far his best oval track finish in the Cup series. He later partnered with Premium Motorsports to drive the No. 15 at Sonoma and the Charlotte Roval.
In 2022, he returned to NASCAR, competing in the No. 41 Chevrolet for Niece Motorsports at Mid Ohio.
On June 20, 2023, Kaulig Racing announced that Marks would drive the No. 10 Chevrolet in the inaugural Xfinity Series race on the Chicago Street Course.
Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series return
Marks returned to the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series for the 2009 season driving the TRG No. 67 No Fear/Construct Corps Porsche with teammate Andy Lally. The team began the season with an impressive victory in the GT cl* at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.
ARCA Racing Series
On December 17, 2009, Lakeville, Minnesota's Win-Tron Racing announced that Marks would drive their No. 32 Toyota in the 2010 ARCA Racing Series season.
Entrepreneurial career
Marks' father, Michael, is a partner in the private equity firm Riverwood Capital, board member of GoPro and a minority owner in the Golden State Warriors. He also served as an executive at Crocs and the interim CEO of Tesla Motors.
Marks and Michael McDowell operate a karting facility called the Trackhouse Motorplex, located 30 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina. The facility opened in October 2012, and was inspired by another karting track located in Parma, Italy.
In 2015, HScott Motorsports owner Harry Scott Jr. took control of TSM's K&N Pro Series East team, and partnered with Marks to field four cars under the banner HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks for Scott Heckert, William Byron, J. J. Haley, Dalton Sargeant, and Rico Abreu. Marks also owned a World of Outlaws team, Larson Marks Racing, with Kyle Larson before relinquishing his stake to Larson in 2018 to focus on sports car racing.
In August 2020, Marks partnered with former NASCAR executive Ty Norris to create Trackhouse Racing, a Cup Series team that debuted in 2021. The team operates on a cause marketing strategy that includes a STEM education program for minority populations in the United States.
On June 30, 2021, Trackhouse announced their purchase of the NASCAR operations of Chip Gan*i Racing, with its two charters for the No. 1 and the No. 42 teams, therefore announcing the team will be two cars in 2022. A driver, sponsors, and number would be announced later. It was later announced that the 1 car would turn to Trackhouse with Ross Chastain driving it. Marks got his first win as a car owner on March 27, 2022, with Chastain, winning at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
On January 9, 2023, a consortium consisting of Trackhouse, DEJ Management, Jeff Burton Autosports, Inc., and Kevin Harvick Incorporated purchased the CARS Tour.
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.)
NASCAR Cup Series
Daytona 500
Xfinity Series
Camping World Truck Series
ARCA Racing Series
(key) (Bold:– Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics:– Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. *:– Most laps led.)
Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Superstar Racing Experience
(key):*:– Most laps led. 1:– Heat 1 winner. 2:– Heat 2 winner.
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Justin Marks.- Official website
- Justin Marks driver statistics at Racing-Reference
- Zane Smith
- Shane van Gisbergen
- Connor Zilisch
- (25) Raúl Fernández
- (88) Miguel Oliveira
- Kimi Räikkönen
- Travis Mack
- 2022 (Chastain)
- Niece Motorsports
- Pinnacle Racing Group
- Richard Childress Racing
- Spire Motorsports
- Aprilia (MotoGP)
- Chip Gan*i Racing
- RNF Racing (MotoGP)
- Jeb Burton
- Kyle Busch
- Landon C*ill
- Ross Chastain
- Jonathan Davenport
- Austin Dillon
- Joe Graf Jr.
- Noah Gragson
- Kaz Grala
- Justin Haley
- Blake Koch
- Derek Kraus
- Kyle Larson
- Justin Marks
- Layne Riggs
- Elliott Sadler
- Chandler Smith
- Zane Smith
- Daniel Suárez
- Jordan Taylor
- Ryan Truex
- Richard Childress Racing
- SS-Green Light Racing
- Trackhouse Racing
- Jeffrey Abbey
- Lawless Alan
- Morgan Alexander
- Trevor Bayne
- Logan Bearden
- T. J. Bell
- Kyle Benjamin
- Danny Bohn
- James Buescher
- Jeb Burton
- Tyler Carpenter
- Chad Chastain
- Conor Daly
- Erik Darnell
- Spencer Davis
- Natalie Decker
- Justin Fontaine
- Colin Garrett
- Victor Gonzalez Jr.
- Matt Gould
- Kaz Grala
- Chris Hacker
- Carson Hocevar
- Landon Huffman
- Gary Klutt
- Kyle Larson
- Ty Majeski
- Justin Marks
- Max McLaughlin
- Brett Moffitt
- Jett Noland
- Travis Pastrana
- Timothy Peters
- Angela Ruch
- Austin Wayne Self
- Casey Smith
- Mark Smith
- Garrett Smithley
- Dean Thompson
- Ryan Truex
- Shane van Gisbergen
- Reid Wilson
- Kris Wright
- Faction46
- Jordan Anderson Racing
- Trackhouse Racing
- (51) Colin Braun
- (51) Eric Lux / Pietro Fittipaldi / Devlin DeFrancesco / Austin Cindric
- (51) Mason Maggio
- Ford Performance
- RFK Racing
- Dale Coyne Racing
- Premium Motorsports
- 2000 (Montoya)
- 2008 (Dixon)
- 2010 (Franchitti)
- 2012 (Franchitti)
- 2022 (Ericsson)
- 1996 (V*er)
- 1997 (Zanardi)
- 1998 (Zanardi)
- 1999 (Montoya)
- 2003 (Dixon)
- 2008 (Dixon)
- 2009 (Franchitti)
- 2010 (Franchitti)
- 2011 (Franchitti)
- 2013 (Dixon)
- 2015 (Dixon)
- 2018 (Dixon)
- 2020 (Dixon)
- 2021 (Palou)
- 2023 (Palou)
- Ron Hornaday Jr.
- Matt Kenseth
- 2010 (McMurray)
- 2010 (McMurray)
- 2014 (McMurray)
- 2019 (Larson)
- 2016 (Hand/Müller/Bourdais - LMGTE Pro)
- 2006 (Dixon/Wheldon/Mears)
- 2007 (Montoya/Durán/Pruett)
- 2008 (Montoya/Franchitti/Pruett/Rojas)
- 2011 (Hand/Rahal/Pruett/Rojas)
- 2013 (Montoya/Kimball/Pruett/Rojas)
- 2015 (Dixon/Kanaan/Larson/McMurray)
- Patrick Racing
- Team SABCO
- Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
- Trackhouse Racing
- Laurel Hill Tunnel (testing facility)
and affiliations
- Honda Performance Development (IndyCar)
- Cadillac / Dallara (IMSA)
- NASCAR operations of Chip Gan*i Racing
- Kirk Shelmerdine
- Richard Childress Racing
- Germain Racing
- Hillman-Circle Sport
- Jordan Anderson Racing
- JR Motorsports
- NEMCO Motorsports
- NY Racing Team
- Spire Motorsports
- Tommy Baldwin Racing
- HScott Motorsports
- Michael Waltrip Racing
- Phil Parsons Racing
- Rick Ware Racing
- Anthony Alfredo
- John Andretti
- Tony Ave
- Stanton Barrett
- Dave Blaney
- Chad Blount
- Todd Bodine
- Chris Buescher
- Landon C*ill
- Chad Chaffin
- Ted Christopher
- Kevin Conway
- Chris Cook
- Derrike Cope
- Matt Crafton
- Kertus Davis
- Bill Elliott
- David Gilliland
- Jeff Green
- Larry Gunselman
- Bobby Hamilton Jr.
- Kevin Hamlin
- Riley Herbst
- P. J. Jones
- Blake Koch
- Travis Kvapil
- Terry Labonte
- Randy LaJoie
- Kevin Lepage
- Carl Long
- Justin Marks
- Joey McCarthy
- Eric McClure
- Johnny Miller
- Brett Moffitt
- Joe Nemechek
- John Hunter Nemechek
- David Ragan
- Tony Raines
- David Reutimann
- Robert Richardson Jr.
- Greg Sacks
- Hermie Sadler
- Johnny Sauter
- Brian Simo
- Zane Smith
- Reed Sorenson
- Brad Teague
- Matt Tifft
- Cole Whitt
- Josh Wise
- J. J. Yeley
- Bill Elliott
- Terry Labonte
- 2021 (McDowell)
- 2013 (Ragan)
- Ford Performance
- Roush-Yates Engines
- Rick Ware Racing
- Team Penske
- BK Racing
- Hall of Fame Racing
- NY Racing Team
- Yates Racing
- Ron Hornaday Jr.
- Dale Jarrett
- Jimmie Johnson
- Richard Petty
- Richard Petty's 200th win and President Reagan at Daytona
- Biagi-DenBeste Racing
- Evernham Motorsports
- Richard Childress Racing
- Roush Racing
- ThorSport Racing
- Baker-Curb Racing
- CAA Performance
- Curb-Agajanian Performance Group
- Edge Performance Group
- Brewco Motorsports
- GC Motorsports International
- Rico Abreu
- Willie Allen
- Dakoda Armstrong
- Todd Bodine
- Chase Briscoe
- Jeb Burton
- Landon C*ill
- Chad Chaffin
- Terry Cook
- Hailie Deegan
- Jake Drew
- Kerry Earnhardt
- Christian Eckes
- Grant Enfinger
- David Gilliland
- Tina Gordon
- Cameron Hayley
- Tracy Hines
- Lance Hooper
- Andy Houston
- Shelby Howard
- Frank Kimmel
- Joey Logano
- Justin Marks
- Michael McDowell
- Paul Menard
- Brett Moffitt
- Travis Pastrana
- Buddy Rice
- Johnny Sauter
- Jason Small
- Myatt Snider
- Jimmy Spencer
- Paul White
- Mitch Gibson
- Shane Wilson
- 2013 (Crafton)
- 2014 (Crafton)
- 2019 (Crafton)
- 2021 (Rhodes)
- 2023 (Rhodes)
- 2013 (Kimmel)
- Ford Performance
- Ilmor NT1
- Anthony Alfredo
- Tyler Ankrum
- Kyle Benjamin
- J. P. Bergeron
- Harrison Burton
- Natalie Decker
- Hailie Deegan
- Tyler Dippel
- Drew Dollar
- Chris Eggleston
- Korbin Forrister
- Jake Garcia
- Ty Gibbs
- David Gilliland
- Todd Gilliland
- Noah Gragson
- Kaz Grala
- Kevin Harvick
- Riley Herbst
- Joey Iest
- Erik Jones
- Derek Kraus
- Bo LeMastus
- Raphaël Lessard
- Bill Lester
- Joey Logano
- Jesse Love
- Justin Marks
- Matt Mills
- Thad Moffitt
- John Hunter Nemechek
- Andrés Pérez de Lara
- Bubba Pollard
- Ryan Preece
- David Ragan
- Ryan Reed
- Layne Riggs
- Donny Schatz
- Sammy Smith
- Zane Smith
- Kyle Strickler
- Daniel Suárez
- Bubba Wallace
- Jason A. White
- Chris Windom
- 2018 (Ankrum)
- Toyota Racing Development
- Red Horse Racing
- Tyler Ankrum
- Michael Annett
- Kyle Benjamin
- Christopher Bell
- Alex Bowman
- Sean Caisse
- Ross Chastain
- Spencer Davis
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Jake Drew
- Brent Glastetter
- Austin Hill
- Trey Hutchens
- Ross Kenseth
- Jesse Little
- Justin Marks
- Max McLaughlin
- Brandon McReynolds
- Brett Moffitt
- Miguel Paludo
- Sergio Peña
- Lee Pulliam
- Chase Purdy
- Johnny Sauter
- Sammy Smith
- Austin Theriault
- Ryan Truex
- Bubba Wallace
- Chrissy Wallace
- Doug George
- Pat Tryson
- 2018 (Moffitt)
- Toyota Racing Development
- Justin Allgaier
- Caleb Armstrong
- Dakoda Armstrong
- Steve Arpin
- Chris Bailey Jr.
- Morgen Baird
- Amber Balcaen
- Phil Barkdoll
- Nicole Behar
- Christopher Bell
- Andrew Belmont
- Kyle Belmont
- Kyle Benjamin
- Rich Bickle
- Ryan Blaney
- John Blankenship
- Chad Boat
- Justin Boston
- Alex Bowman
- Harrison Burton
- William Byron
- Sean Caisse
- Nelson Canache Jr.
- Parker Chase
- Cody Coughlin
- Jake Crum
- Marc Davis
- Spencer Davis
- Natalie Decker
- Hailie Deegan
- Mason Diaz
- Drew Dollar
- Milka Duno
- Christian Eckes
- Bill Eversole
- Eddie Fatscher
- Taylor Ferns
- Ryan Fischer
- Kyle Fowler
- A. J. Frank
- Todd Gilliland
- Noah Gragson
- Clay Greenfield
- Max Gresham
- Jake Griffin
- Derek Griffith
- Darren Hagen
- Justin Haley
- Gavin Harlien
- Paulie Harraka
- Corey Heim
- A. J. Henriksen
- Tom Hessert III
- Sean Hingorani
- Brett Hudson
- Landon Huffman
- Alistair Jackson
- Jason Jarrett
- Brian Johnson Jr.
- Brandon Jones
- Conner Jones
- Erik Jones
- Rob Jones
- Mikey Kile
- Frank Kimmel
- Frankie Kimmel
- Clint King
- Buddy Kofoid
- Dylan Kwasniewski
- Scott Lag*e Jr.
- Bo LeMastus
- Raphaël Lessard
- Donny Lia
- Joey Logano
- Johanna Long
- Jesse Love
- Brandon Lynn
- Jeffery MacZink
- Justin Marks
- Kyle Martel
- Hal Martin
- B. J. McLeod
- George Miedecke
- Mason Mitchell
- Nate Monteith
- Leilani Munter
- John Hunter Nemechek
- Alli Owens
- Miguel Paludo
- Landon Pembelton
- Brennan Poole
- Ryan Reed
- Taylor Reimer
- Ben Rhodes
- Josh Richards
- Cole Rouse
- Kenzie Ruston
- Dalton Sargeant
- Ken Schrader
- Brian Scott
- Logan Seavey
- Michael Self
- Jonathan Shafer
- Peter Shepherd III
- Michael Simko
- Chandler Smith
- C. W. Smith
- Jesse Smith
- Mamba Smith
- Zane Smith
- Myatt Snider
- John Stancill
- Trista Stevenson
- Daniel Suárez
- Kevin Swindell
- Austin Theriault
- Dean Thompson
- Mark Thompson
- Tanner Thorson
- Matt Tifft
- John Wes Townley
- Gracie Trotter
- Ryan Unzicker
- Dominic Ursetta
- Will Vaught
- Bill Venturini
- Billy Venturini
- Bubba Wallace
- Cole Williams
- Brian Wong
- Alex Yontz
- Cayden Lapcevich
- 1987 (B. Venturini Sr.)
- 1991 (B. Venturini Sr.)
- 2019 (Eckes)
- 2023 (Love)
- 2023 (Hingorani)
- Joe Gibbs Racing
- Phoenix Racing
- Toyota Racing Development
