1,000 Greatest Drivers: Sterling Marlin

I've now come to realize restrictor plate dominance is correlated with passing ability elsewhere.

For much of my life, I belittled drivers who dominated restrictor plate races because after years of Michael Waltrip, David Ragan, and Trevor Bayne wins, I bought into the popular narrative that anyone could win one, which caused me to underrate drivers like Marlin, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Dale Jarrett, and Davey Allison who were generally at their best on…