Mark Green admits it easily. When you're a child born into a family of devout racers, chances are you'll gravitate toward involvement in racing.

That's what Green, the middle of the three racing brothers from Owensboro, Ky., found and gladly accepted as his son, Tyler, grew up. His daughter also works in the industry.

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If [Tyler] wants to [race], we'll give him the chances that we can afford to give him.

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-- MARK GREEN

These days, Mark Green, 49, finds going racing with Tyler, who just turned 20, is the perfect family activity for himself, wife Cathy and their daughter Rachel, now a college graduate and the sales coordinator at Lowe's Motor Speedway but a constant track companion as she grew up.

Mark Green was the last of the three brothers to hit the Carolinas, as he and his family relocated in 2000 to join older brother David, 51, and youngest brother Jeff, 46.

Last weekend at Bristol, Mark Green sat down to talk about maintaining his family's racing legacy, how he keeps up with his brothers, the Green Foundation golf tournament and what's on his docket this season.

Q: With everything you know and everything you and your brothers have experienced in their careers, when Tyler said he wanted to race, what did you think?

Mark Green: It's almost like he really didn't have a choice, because he goes [to the track] with me and both his uncles, you know? And I told him more than once; you know it's not all glitz and glamour? It's a lot of hard work and for the one Dale [Earnhardt] Jr. or Jimmie Johnson there's a thousand just like him that don't get that chance.

And unfortunately nowadays, with the way the economy is and all, it's more the financial part of it now. If you've got a young kid that's got money behind him he's going to go way farther than a kid that's got a lot of talent and no money.

So it's kind of disheartening for me, and I'm like every father I'm sure, because my son's pretty good at driving a race car, but I don't know if he'll get the chance to show it just because of the way the sport is now. (Continued)