Richard Garvie
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Richard Francis Garvie[1] (born June 7th, 1984 in Kettering, England)drives the #69 Ford Fusion in the ARCA Re/Max Series.
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[edit] Personal
A successfull broadcaster in his own right, Richard is a relative late comer to the ARCA Re/Max Series at the age of 23. Richard developed an interest in Motorsport at an early age, and became interested in SuperSpeedway racing with the construction of a 1.5mile Speedway in Corby, England[2].
[edit] SCSA
Richard Garvie [3] and his Tallboy Motorsport team competed in the European stock car series SCSA (previously ASCAR / Days of Thunder) with sponsorship from GCap Media and the Gold Network. Additional sponsorship came from 2D Media Design and 2D Modelling Agency. With financial support withdrawn by Rockingham Speedway, the SCSA series is now a club based series competing on road courses and sanctioned by the Motor Sports Association. Richard is among a group of former supporters of the series looking at ways to bring back the popular "Thunder Sunday" package to Rockingham and an anouncement is due in April 2008.
[edit] ARCA
Richard makes his ARCA Re/Max Series debut in the Pennsylvania 200 at Pocono on August 2nd 2008, with further races at Nashville, Chicagoland and Talladega with a view to running a full schedule in 2009.
Richard has signed to drive with **** ******* ****** and will have experienced crew chief ***** **** to guide him through the transition to the ARCA Re/Max Series. Full details of his team, sponsor and crew chief will be released at testing for the Nashville Toyota ARCA 150 on July 22nd. [4]
