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Martin so close, yet so far … again

By Ed Hinton
ESPN.com

Friday, November 6, 2009

FORT WORTH, Texas -- You could tell it was beginning to sink in -- again -- with Mark Martin on Friday. This likely will make five times. "We gave it a good effort," he said of this, the season he seemed most likely to break the bittersweet status his peers have given him: the best driver never to win the championship. "But we haven't quite matched his [teammate Jimmie Johnson's] performance, although we gave him a pretty good run. "And that's all -- that's all we can do …" Toughened b ...

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