Garvey Scores GMP Victory

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.

“I’ve got to thank Cole for running me clean,” Garvey said in victory lane. “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.”

Michael Lance was flagged in third place but was disqualified after failing post race technical inspection. That moved Preston Peltier to third, with D.J. Vanderlay and Ricky Sanders completed the top-five finishers.

Garvey wasn’t the only driver to clean up Saturday at GMP as Hoyt Stephens, Jody Trivette, Andy Gaddis 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, Trivette won a slam-bang affair holding off Tony Newman, Brian Beckner, Jeremy Dills and Rodney Cox at the checkered flag. Meanwhile, After Alexander Fox was flagged the winner of the truck event, his truck failed to pass post-race tech, giving the win to Andy Gaddis. Aaron Calvert finished second, followed by Cecil Flowe, Brian Huff and Bill Hoose.