Comments on: Driver Websites: Do They Know its 2008?

By: Ransey

Ransey — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:57:50 +0000

Kansas race; When Mears was leading the race in the No. 5 car and caution came out. Everyone pitted except Mears. They had already ran 17 laps on the tires. Mears had the same amount of laps as the rest of the field had on there race car. Why he stayed out was under order from Rick Hendrick Chiefs. They want to see how many laps the tires would holdup. He did this in order to pass it alone to his other drivers. Therefore taking Mears out of a chance to win the race. Now to Mark Martin. He will not have a chance to win a championship. Who else would you want to drive your R&D car other than Mark. Check it out in the past 200 races how many drivers over 45 has won a race. Mark will be doing nothing more than driving No. 5 Hendrick R&D car. I hate that for Mark.

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By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:05:36 +0000

DC and MM fan, he was just writing on the design, not contents.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:51:35 +0000

MM Fan & DC: You are certainly entitled to call me a “hack.” I never claimed to be an expert on web design, I just thought I’d throw my two cents out into the universe. As I explained in the post, my rankings were based on a first impression of the site. I didn’t go into content or interactivity because those could be different posts on their own. I’m sure MarkMartin.com has a lot to offer, but there is no doubt the site is not as visually appealing as KyleBusch.com or GregBiffle.com.

If you are content with the design of MarkMartin.com, great. But I feel like the internet is about as visual an experience as it gets, and I want some eye candy. Especially from a high caliber driver like Mark Martin. And with so many visually stunning websites these days, I feel like his site is a detriment to him gaining new, young fans. Websites need to draw people in and give them a reason to stick around to discover that great content. MarkMartin.com simply doesn’t deliver.

By: MM Fan

MM Fan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:46:32 +0000

Don’t really know what you are talking about with the mark martin site. Obviously you are a hack or something, as on the markmartin.com site it says plain as day across the top (news, blogs, recaps, photos, video), it has everything you say it does not.

It is extremely easy to naviagate and real fans don’t need flash and heavy metal music. The site is always up to date and full of news and insite and has a forum for all the fans to hang out and literally tons of behind the scenes blogs and pics each week.

Next time take three seconds to pay some attention (it is free), before you blast your uneducated and uninformed opinion.

By: DC

DC — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:19:17 +0000

I go to Markmartin.com everyday and have no problem with the site. Im sure its not the best but the worst?????????????? Give me a break pal. Maybe you should have spent a little more time on this.

By: Bette

Bette — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:43:03 +0000

Last year Jamie Mac had a much better site…it was pretty cool…don’t care for this years design…

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:49:05 +0000

Reuts is the worst. The top 4 are pretty close, they could be in any order. They spend a lot of time and money on their sites. Dale Jr’s is pretty good. I like it better then the bud website.

I don’t agree, however, with Carl Edwards being in the top 5 worst. I think he has had the same design for a couple of years, although it ain’t the best, I don’t think it is really one of the 5 worst.

But drivers that use uncommonthinking (Rowdy and June) are always the best. Every driver should have them do their site.