Results speak for themselves.

Ginn Racing general manager Jay Frye maintains the organization’s success so far this season didn’t happen overnight, but built on the foundation of the 11-year existence of the organization.

Yet there is still little doubt Ginn Racing – formerly known as MB2 Motorsports – has already shown great improvement just two races into the 2007 Nextel Cup season.

Mark Martin, who left Roush Fenway Racing after 19 years to drive a partial schedule for Ginn, nearly won his first Daytona 500, losing in a drag race to Kevin Harvick.

Martin’s fifth-place finish last weekend at California left him the series points leader – the first time Ginn Racing has ever led the series standings and the first time Martin has led the points since Sept. 22, 2002.

Martin’s two top-10 finishes to open the season also match the top-10 total for that team for all of last season.

“We’ve had cars good enough to win in both of the first two races and that really says a lot about this organization and where it is going,” Martin said. “We still have a long way to go, but we sure are off to a great start.

“It’s really just been an awesome experience. I’m rolling and I’m having the time of my life.”

But Martin isn’t the only one. Teammate Joe Nemechek finished ninth at Daytona and 14th at California and is now seventh in points.

Even teammate Sterling Marlin has had good performing cars in the first two races, but an electrical problem in his No. 14 Chevrolet left him with a 35th place finish at California.

The strong start to the 2007 season has already buoyed the spirits of Ginn Racing’s employees and justified the faith many had about the potential of their program.

“It’s much more exciting to be working on planning on the next couple years rather than the next couple of weeks,” Frye said. “When you’re planning for two weeks your stress level is pretty high.

“When you’re planning for the next couple years, that’s exciting. That’s building an organization that plans to be around for a long time with a great future and a lot of success, hopefully.”

Driver Mark Martin, right, with Ginn Racing teammates Sterling Marlin, left, and Joe Nemechek, center, talks to the media during the first day of the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Media Tour in January.

In July of last year real estate developer Bobby Ginn purchased all of the shares owned by MB2 majority owner and founding partner Nelson Bowers. Frye, the organization’s general manager and chief executive officer since its formation, remained in the same capacity and retained his ownership in the company.

Ginn is president and founder of the Celebration, Fla.-based Ginn Resorts, a privately held resort development and management firm. His involvement immediately added much-needed financial resources to the company, which nearly double in size in the offseason.

“We had to get started quickly and our business plan is pretty much laid out for the next five years. We didn’t go into this with a short term attitude,” Ginn said. “We went into this with a plan and we knew it would take a long time to develop the shop and develop the way we work together in the shop.

“One of the things that I believe – in my own business, in life and in the race team, is that at the end of the day you can have all of the best sheet metal and all of the best motors, but if you don’t have great people you are never going to get there.

“That is what I saw here – that opportunity with Jay. I’m excited about it all and I know that he is, too.”

Although the organization still has many plans yet to come to fruition, after two of 36 races Ginn Racing is already turning heads and changing conversations.

While many in NASCAR questioned Martin’s move to the organization, after he took the points lead last weekend the question suddenly turned to asking whether Martin will make his ride full time.

“We could have won Daytona. We could have won California. We’re leading the points. That’s the system that’s in place and how success is judged in our sport and how you win in this sport. Right now, it shows we’re winning.

“We always thought of ourselves as a diamond-in-the-rough kind of team. Now, the diamond has a little shine to it.”