Team Position: General Manager, Marketing Director, Mechanic, & Driver
Occupation: President/CEO of LM Marketing Group & Luis Martinez Racing
Hometown: Allentown, PA
Website: www.luismartinezdesigns.com & www.luismartinezracing.com
Hobbies: Racing, spending time with family & friends, building show & race cars, video games, and movies
About
Luis Martinez has always been around cars. His passion started at only 3 years of age when his father, Luis Martinez Sr., took him to his first race. Since then gasoline has been in Luis’s blood. When he was young Luis helped out his father building drag cars at the family shop. His father raced in NHRA sportman’s series for many years and at the age of 16 Luis took over the family hobby and began competing in the NHRA himself. Later Luis wanted to try his car building skills in a professional car show competition organization. He started Luis Martinez Designs, a marketing, consulting, & project car development company and has become a well-known car builder with many awards under his belt. In 2006 Luis became fascinated with a new sport arriving in the U.S. called “drifting”. Luis built his first drift car in 2007 and fell in love with the sport immediately.
Quick Facts
- From assistant to professional race team owner Luis has competed in many professional sanctioning bodies such as: NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION, SPORTS CAR CLUB OF AMERICA, AMERICAN DRAG RACING LEAGUE, FORMULA DRIFT, & XTREME DRIFT CIRCUIT
2009: LM Marketing Group Acura RSX was awarded best paint & best jdm car of 09 sport compact show season. DUB Magazine asked LM Marketing Group to display 2 of their vehicles in their Philadelphia Auto Show Expo (show was invitational only and had a total of 30 – 40 vehicles).
2008: LM Marketing Group Nissan S14 was featured in six different national magazines.
2007: Built 2 award-winning Scion XB vehicles for SEMA, Graduated from Skip Barber Racing School for indy car racing, Certified in BFGoodrich & Toyo Tires high performance tire line.
2006: Was asked by The Make A Wish Foundation to build a show vehicle for a client. Vehicle was featured in Euro Tuner Magazine
2004: Finished top 10 in the points of NHRA sportsman series (Heavy Class)
2003: Finished top 15 in points of NHRA sportsman series (Super Stock Series)
