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NASCAR podcast: Maury Gallagher
As GMS Racing chases a second champion on the track, team owner Maury Gallagher has been working on a book documenting its history. Gallagher joins The Racing Writer’s Podcast to discuss the newly released “Fueling a Legacy: The Long-Shot Success of GMS.”
Among discussion topics:
- Why he wanted GMS Racing’s journey documented now
- The important of Las Vegas and Las Vegas Motor Speedway to his team’s history
- How Gallagher became a compulsive notetaker and that helping the book
- The honest assessment in his notes about son Spencer
- If Gallagher had any second thoughts about entering NASCAR in the early going
- The emotions of going from the bottom to the top with ARCA and Truck championships
- How losing the Truck title in 2017 and ’18 did not sit well with the company and prompted changes
- Mike Beam’s influence and importance to GMS Racing
- If things are different without Spencer Gallagher racing
- Watching his teams from afar with the pandemic
- Having four trucks in the playoffs
Kelly Crandall
Kelly has been on the NASCAR beat full-time since 2013, and joined RACER as chief NASCAR writer in 2017. Her work has also appeared in NASCAR.com, the NASCAR Illustrated magazine, and NBC Sports. A corporate communications graduate from Central Penn College, Crandall is a two-time George Cunningham Writer of the Year recipient from the National Motorsports Press Association.
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