Died 30 April 2011 | ||
Matthew marker olympus rally 2011
Matthew Noble Marker (16 September 1979 - 30 April 2011) was a rally car driver from Elk Rapids, Michigan and a competitor in Rally America. He was killed in an accident at the Olympus Rally in 2011 in only his third event in the series.
Marker, a Subaru fanatic, bought his first Subaru when he was 15 and owned over 50 of them.
On 30 April 2011, during the Olympus Rally, the third round of the 2011 Rally America season, the #65 Impreza driven by 31-year-old Marker and co-driver Christopher Gordon went off the road on a right turn during the 6th competitive stage of the event and impacted a tree on the driver’s side, thus leaving Marker with unsurvivable injuries. Gordon was uninjured, fortunately enough. Marker was the first driver to be killed in North America since 2003, after the deaths of Mark Lovell and Roger Freeman. He was the third driver to die in the US championship since 1992. Also, he was the first driver to be killed in the Rally America series since its takeover from SCCA in 2005.
In September 2012, the family and friends of Matthew Noble Marker attempted a Guinness World Record attempt for the longest parade of Subarus in his memory.