Team History

The Martin Families venture into drag racing began in 1980 with Will's parents John & Debra Martin. The couple owned and operated a successful heating and air conditioning contracting firm based out of San Dimas, CA. The name of the business is what lead to the name of the race car: Jam-Air Special. Jam-Air standing for John A Martin Air Conditioning. John, was a work-a-holic and after the untimely passing of his father Art in July of 1980 decided to find a hobby to keep his mind occupied after his fathers passing. John reached out to long time friend Charlie Allen, track manager of Orange County Raceway who invited him down for a funny car race. Two weeks later John had purchased his first car, formerly the L.A Hooker owned by Gene Beaver (John Force's Uncle).

John and Debra fielded a series of Jam-Air Special cars from 1980 to 1989. The cars were originally driven by Henry Harrison till John could complete his license process in 1982. From there the Martin's would run primarily on the west coast until 1988. In 1988 the Martin's hired Ronnie Swearingen and Jimmy Prock to campaign a brand new Steve Plueger built Chevy Beretta for the full 1988 NHRA season. The team finished 10th in the world as an independent team with no corporate sponsorship.

In 1989 the Martin's decided to call it quits after the event in Atlanta. Unfortunately they became victim to a sport that was starting to grow and emerge into a corporate world and decisions were made against the independent team that benefited some of the sports largest teams both with sponsorship and on track rulings. The assets of the team were sold off to Wyatt Radke, Del Worsham, and Grame Cowin.

In 2005 Will Martin, the son of John and Debra decided it was time to follow in the footsteps of his parents and try his hand in racing. With the help of his mother, Will was able to purchase his first rolling chassis. Would take him a little over a year to complete and when all was said and done he made his debut behind the wheel of the Jam-Air Special Version 2.0 in August 2006 at Sacramento Raceway park running in the 7.50 index funny car class called CIFCA.

The martin's would spend from 2006 thru 2010 running both CIFCA & NHRA Heritage Series competition with their blown alcohol funny car. The team broke thru for their first career win in Redding in 2008 and would go on to claim the CIFCA Series championship in 2008. For 2009 NHRA began a 7.0 class that allowed funny cars. the Martin's with the help of Mark Platt put a 69 camaro body on the car so they could run CIFCA and NHRA that year. In total they ran 14 races that year and even with missing 2 races in the NHRA series, they would win the inaugural NHRA National championship and 2009 CIFCA championship. They would return in 2010 and dominated the NHRA series by winning 5 of 6 races taht year.

In 2011, thru the success of the Martin's on track accomplishments and business ventures, the team switched to Nostalgia Top Fuel with a new Murf McKinney built Mustang funny car funded by Multistack Chillers. The car was built for Will to relive a moment in his life he was too young to remember that his father had. They ran the car in various iterations until end of 2017.