Jimmy Mars
Hometown: Menominee, WI
Birthday: Feb. 28, 1972
Marital Status: Married (Krista)
Children: Son Samuel
Car: Deppe Enterprises/T.L. Sinz Plumbing/Keyes ChevyTown MasterSbilt
Car Owner: Mars Racing
Website: www.jimmymarsracing.com

WoO LMS History: Made first career start in a WoO LMS A-Main on July 4, 2004, at Portsmouth (Ohio) Raceway Park, finishing 26th. It was his only feature appearance with the tour in 2004… Took the green flag in four WoO LMS features in 2005: Feb. 19 at Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park (finished 15th); June 6 at Minnesota’s Deer Creek Speedway (sixth); Aug. 6 at Cedar Lake (Wis.) Speedway (11th); and Sept. 17 at Missouri’s I-55 Raceway (eighth)… Increased tour participation to eight events in 2006, qualifying for six. Scored a career-best WoO LMS finish of fourth at Missouri’s Lebanon I-44 Speedway on July 25 and Deer Creek Speedway on July 29…

Notable: Has been racing for 22 years… Biggest victory came in 1997 when he captured the $100,000 Dirt Late Model Dream at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway at the age of 25… Major-events wins include the Masters (2004), USA Nationals (1996) and WISSOTA 100 (1996) at Cedar Lake (Wis.) Speedway; the $42,000 Topless 100 at Batesville (Ark.) Speedway (2000); the Punky Manor Classic at Red Cedar (Wis.) Speedway (1994, 1995, 1996, 2004); the Prairie Dirt Classic at Fairbury (Ill.) American Legion Speedway (2005); and the Silver 100 at Proctor (Minn.) Speedway (1992)… Owns UMP DIRTcar Racing Summernationals victories at Fairbury (2006 and 2005) and Iowa’s 34 Raceway (2005) and finished a career-high second in the 2005 tour point standings… Captured the $12,000 Northern Xtreme DirtCar Series finale at Florida’s East Bay Raceway Park in 2004 and was the STARS East Bay Winternationals champion in 1999… Toured with the UDTRA/Xtreme DirtCar Series from 2000-2004, finishing progressively higher in the point standings each year (9-8-4-3-2)… Won 12 UDTRA/Xtreme features, including high-profile events in 2001 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway and The Dirt Track at Texas Motor Speedway… During short stint racing on asphalt, won the 1999 NASCAR RE/MAX Series Rookie of the Year Award… Nicknamed ‘The Iceman,’ Mars is an authorized dealer of MasterSbilt chassis Late Models. He sells ‘MasterSbilt from Mars’ cars and does other work for local and regional drivers at his Mars Racing shop…