Name: Mike Gular
Birthdate: 5-29-83
Marital Status: Girlfriend, Cassie
Occupation: Machinist and racer
Home Tracks: Grandview/Penn-Can
Divisions: 358 and big-block Modified
Modified Wins: 9 (Most recent 4/12/08 Grandview)
Favorite Driver: Tony Stewart
Hobbies other than racing: Snowmobiling, fishing,
hunting
Most memorable racing moment: First NASCAR
358-Modified win at Grandview - July 2005; First Modified
championship - Penn-Can -2007
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Career at a glance:
Mike Gular began his racing career on the Grandview Speedway high
banks in 2000. He's received Most Improved Driver recognition
twice from Grandview management (2001 and 2004), earned the
'Horizon Award' as a talented young ambassador of the sport from
Penn-Can Speedway (2005). Last October, he was named one of the
top young talents in dirt Modified racing by Area Auto Racing
News, a widely-circulated auto-racing trade newspaper that
spans the East Coast. He has been a top-five points finisher at
both Grandview and Penn-Can and cracked the top-10 on the
traveling Race of Champions Dirt Modified Tour (2005). In
2006, Gular took the championship in the special-event ‘Thunder on
the Hill’ Series at Grandview, winning an Aug. 22 series race over
multi-time track champion Jeff Strunk. He won three ’06 features
at Penn-Can. Gular's career took another upward swing in 2007 when
he clinched the Modified track championship.
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