Todd Marcus

Todd Marcus is a former Piston Cup racer that raced part-time from 1999 to 2001 and full-time from 2002 to 2015, and the first eleven races of 2016 for No Stall. He was mostly a mid-pack driver during his career but had some really good seasons, such as his 2003 and 2007 seasons. He was replaced by Jonas Carvers after the 2016 Palm Mile 300. He is a three-time Florida 500 champion, in 2002, 2007, and 2015.

## Career

### 1998 and 1999 Busch seasons

Todd raced full-time in the Busch Series in 1998, scoring a win but finished seventh in points. In 1999, he improved to sixth but with no wins.

### Part-time beginnings

After Larry Smith's retirement after the 1999 Piston Cup Dash 600, Marcus was tapped to drive the last twelve races of the season, where his one top ten was enough to land a part-time gig for 2000 after finishing 32nd in points. 2000 was an improvement scoring two top tens in twenty starts and beating other part-timer Mac iCar for 27th in points. 2001 was a down year, in nineteen events, he scored no top tens and was the lowest of the part-timers in the standings, in 30th.

### Rookie Year

2002 was announced to be Marcus' rookie year, along with Mac iCar, and Marcus jumped right out, winning the Nightdona 500 in his first attempt. He got a decent thirteen top fives and sixteen top tens on the season but four DNFs lowered him to seventeenth in points, winning Rookie of The Year.

### Prime (2003-2008)

Though Marcus was mostly mid-pack, his 2003 season says otherwise, winning the second race and leading the points for a bit along with twenty top tens on the year, finishing ninth in points. 2004 was a big down year, though he won the Brake Dock 400 late in the season, he was plagued with inconsistency, with six top tens on the season, five were runner-ups, finishing twenty-second in points. The 2005 season for Marcus was a good season, winning the Fei 400, and getting ten other top tens and finishing thirteenth in points. After signing an extension, Todd won the Easy Idle 450 and had three DNFs with six poles, and eight top tens, and finished twentieth in his 2006 campaign. 2007 was Todd's career year, winning his second Nightdona 500 on a last lap wreck dodge, and being a top five contender all season. He won the Dinoco 400 and for the first time in his career, had multiple wins in a season. His 2007 season had, two wins, ten top fives, twenty-three top tens, four poles, and a career-best sixth in points. 2008 was a big regression compared to 2007. He had no wins for the first time in his full-time career, but had thirteen poles. He had only nine top tens on the season and finished seventeenth in points.

### After Prime (2009-2013)

The 2009 season for Marcus was pretty much forgettable, other than nearly winning his third Nightdona 500, he had only four top tens on the season and finished a dismal thirtieth in points. 2010 was a very minimal improvement, having six top tens but no wins and two DNFs and a twenty-ninth place points finish. Todd did very good at the short tracks in 2011 after changing his body style getting a top ten in each (six) and getting two other top tens he rallied to a twenty-seventh in points. 2012 was abysmal, mostly running at the back of the pack, getting one top ten in the BnL 500, and finishing thirty-first in points. 2013 screamed inconsistency, winning the Las Vegas 400 for his first win since 2007 and later winning the No Stall 350 but only had nine top tens on the season and had five DNFs, and the media after him after the RPM 350 incident. He would go on to finish twenty-seventh in points again.

### Final Years (2014-2016)

2014 was another season as a backmarker, getting three top tens and another twenty-seventh place points finish. 2015 started off great of Marcus, getting his third Florida 500 after passing Bobby Swift on the last lap, and getting ten top tens in the first half of the season. Though he got only five more top tens the rest of the season, he won the Mood Springs 350, finishing nineteenth in points, in what would be his final full-time season. the 2016 season was set to be his final season but after having no top tens, he was replaced by Jonas Carvers for the rest of the season and accumulating Marcus' and Carvers' points, they were twentieth in points.

## List Of Wins

1. 2002 Nightdona 500
2. 2003 Pizza Planet 400 at Las Vegas
3. 2004 Brake Dock 400
4. 2005 Fei 400
5. 2006 Easy Idle 450
6. 2007 Nightdona 500
7. 2007 Dinoco 400
8. 2013 Las Vegas 400
9. 2013 No Stall 350
10. 2015 Florida 500
11. 2015 Mood Springs 350

## Points Finishes

* 1999 - 32nd
* 2000 - 27th
* 2001 - 30th
* 2002 - 17th
* 2003 - 9th
* 2004 - 22nd
* 2005 - 13th
* 2006 - 20th
* 2007 - 6th
* 2008 - 17th
* 2009 - 30th
* 2010 - 29th
* 2011 - 27th
* 2012 - 31st
* 2013 - 27th
* 2014 - 27th
* 2015 - 19th
* 2016 - 20th\*

\*- His and Carvers' points accumulated, led to 20th