Garvey Rolls To Victory In Thomas Concrete 100 At Gresham Motorsports Park

Mike Garvey and his wife Lisa in Victory Lane (Photo Courtesy of Speed51.com)

Garvey Rolls To Victory In Thomas Concrete 100 At Gresham Motorsports Park
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JEFFERSON, GA (October 9, 2010) – “Last night, we were really, really good. Tonight, we were only about 70 percent, but that was good enough.”

That’s how Mike Garvey summed up his weekend after winning back-to-back Pro Late Model events at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, FL and at Gresham Motorsports Park in Jefferson, GA this weekend.

The long-time Georgia favorite had to work extra hard to take the win in Saturday’s Thomas Concrete 100 at GMP. Garvey and runner-up Colt James waged a furious battle over the 100-circuits on the half-mile GMP oval swapping the lead three times before Garvey took the top spot for good just short of the half-way point.

Running nose-to-tail over the final laps, James stuck a fender under Garvey’s racer several times only to come up a half-car length short of the victory. Michael Lance, Preston Peltier and D.J. Vanderlay completed the top-five finishers.

“Gosh, I got tight at the end of the race,” Garvey stated. “I was a little tight at the start of the race and when it started to get worse, I thought ‘oh no.” Then I found a different line and that started working. Then that went away.

“I gotta thank Cole for running me clean,” Garvey continued. “He could have knocked me out of the way several times and he didn’t. That’s that way you should race. You shouldn’t have to run over people. I really appreciated him not doing that to me and you can be sure I won’t do it to him. It was a really good race. I’m sure the fans enjoyed it.”

Garvey wasn’t the only driver to clean up Saturday at Gresham Motorsports Park as Hoyt Stephens, Jody Trivett, Alexander Fox and William Earnest all scored main event wins.

Stephens, who has had more than his share of bad luck in the past at GMP, came out on the right side of the ledger this time around edging Jason Bates, Terry Martin, David Murphy and Brian Hardman for the win in the 35-lap Outlaw Late Model feature event.

In the Renegade Street Stock main, Trivett won a slam-bang affair holding off Tony Newman, Brian Beckner, Jamie Dills and Rodney Cox at the checkered flag. Meanwhile, Fox got the best of the 13 other starters in the Truck Series headline event taking top honors in front of Andy Gaddis, Aaron Calvert, Cecil Flowe and Brian Huff.

Finally, Earnst won a wild Mini-Stock main event beating Bill George, Allen Cantrell, Ken Candiotti, Sr. and Avery Burgess to the checkered flag.

Remember – all results are unofficial. We’ll post the official race results and the 2010 GMP Pro Late Model, Truck, Mini Stock and Renegade division championship standings Tuesday on www.GreshamMotorsportsPark.com

Next up at Gresham Motorsports Park will be the first-ever Gresham Motorsports Park Road Course event on Saturday, October 16.

It will be a full day of action as the US Legends International Legends and Bandoleros along with the Mini-Cup cars tour the Gresham Motorsports Park oval and the all-new GMP Road Course.

Pit gates open at 7 a.m. with the Legends being the first to take to the GMP quarter-mile oval for practice at 9 a.m. Racing in all divisions on the oval track begins approximately at 11 a.m. next Saturday.

The afternoon session will include practice, qualifying and racing for all divisions on the GMP .075-mile road course. The layout utilizes the full GMP layout including the quarter- and half-mile ovals as well as pit road.

Don’t miss this great event. Spectator Gates open at 9 a.m. Adult Grandstand and Trackside General Admission is just $5.00. Trackside Parking is $5 per vehicle plus cost of general admission tickets.

Gresham Motorsports Park is located just off I-85 at Exit 140, next to the Jackson County Airport in Jefferson. GA.

For more information about Gresham Motorsports Park, please log on to www.GreshamMotorsportsPark.com.