2014 Driver Reviews: No. 23 Marcos Ambrose

After doing exit interviews for Sprint Cup Series drivers in 2013, we’re turning the tables. We want the drivers to sell themselves. So here are the resumés for all full-time Sprint Cup Series drivers in 2014. Then, at the end, we’ll provide a summation of the driver’s season in 150 words or less.

Name: Marcos Ambrose

NASCAR Experience: Six full seasons in the Sprint Cup Series and two consecutive wins at Watkins Glen in 2011 and 2012.

Most recent team: Richard Petty Motorsports.

Most recent season finish: 23rd.

2014 accomplishments: Top fives at Bristol and Martinsville to start the season, and eighth at Sonoma and a second at Watkins Glen.

Most memorable moment: The battle with AJ Allmendinger to try to secure a berth in the Chase. Watch it again, will you?

Oh, and this, which gave us a teaser of what was to come in the Chase.

Strengths: This doesn’t need to be explained, does it?

2015 goals: Kick some ass in V8 Supercars.

FTM’s Take: One of the road course drivers in recent memory will be especially missed when the Cup Series heads to Sonoma and Watkins Glen. We’ll remember the two wins at Watkins Glen, and we’ll remember his misses of other wins too There was the time he stalled the car going uphill at Sonoma. The way his dominance in 2013 was snatched away. The duel with Allmendinger at the end of this year’s race.

But let’s flash back to 2012, shall we? What a freaking final lap. This is going to be our favorite memory of Ambrose in the Cup Series.