8th. Gary Miller Sr.
8,949.0 Points | 6 Wins (7%) | 83 Feature Races [2010 Season Last Updated] |
DRIVER PROFILE FOR GARY MILLER SR. (2005-10) |
Name:
Gary Miller Sr.
Years Racing Go-karts at Galletta’s:
2005-2010. — Retired and come out of retirement several times per season, finally retiring for good after the 2010 Klassic 200, where he led late but low-fuel issues took him out of contention, and surgery due to past work-related injuries ended his racing career for good.
All tagged feature wins by Gary Miller Sr. + Race Videos
6/7/2010 – Gary Miller Sr. Unretires, Wins 11-Kart/45-Lap Opener, Then Retires Again (+YouTube Videos)
6/7/2010 – Gary Miller Sr. Unretires, Wins 11-Kart/45-Lap Opener, Then Retires Again (+YouTube Videos) June 7th, 2010 – Gary Miller Sr. came out of his 29th self-imposed retirement to hop into the Galletta’s Greenhouse #0 before the 2nd heat and…
6/14/2009 – NCC News Report Night Twin-30s won by Gary Miller Sr. & Matt Stevens! (+YouTube)
Galletta’s Kart Club – 2009 Season, Week 2: Sunday, June 14th, 2009 in Oswego, NY Above are highlights of the Twin-30 races on 6/14/2009 at John J. Galletta Memorial Backyard Karting Speedway. Below is a report on our racing club…
6/3/2007 – Gary Miller Sr. wins 12th Annual Opener (15-karts, 45-laps) +YouTube
Galletta’s 2007 45-Lap Opener (6/3/2007): Gary Miller Sr. (posing with his #1 fan & son, Colin Miller) after winning the 45-Lap opening event of 2007 consisting of fifteen karts! Gary’s new #24, his former backup frame, was rebuilt by Dick Dann, the…
6/18/2006 – Gary Miller Sr. Leads all 50-Laps in 14-Kart Feature! +YouTube
2006 Race #2 results: Sunday, 06/18/2006 2006 Volumes #1 & 2 DVD set: Contains the June 11th, 2006, June 18th, 2006 and June 25th, 2006 races at Galletta’s. Two discs. Two camera angles of each race. Price $5 each disc. On this DVD: (Left)…
9/18/2005 – Gary Miller Sr. wins 12-kart Non-Winner’s Feature as Galletta’s Karting Score Tower Unveiled! +YouTube
1st ANNUAL NON-WINNERS CLASSIC QUALIFIER/ INAUGURAL GALLETTA’S SPEEDWAY SCORING TOWER EVENT This weekend was not only the debut of the newly refurbished “Treeless Treehouse”, “Fort Chrusher/Chrusher Coliseum Headquarters”, which has now become officially re-christened as “Galletta’s Speedway Official’s Scoring Tower”, but it was our…
Career Highlights
On September 18th, 2005, Gary Miller Sr. wins 12-kart Non-Winner’s Feature as Galletta’s Karting Score Tower Unveiled! The race is best known for not just that, but Brian Bortel ATTACKING Kelly Miller with a freakin’ Go-Kart!!! See it all on YouTube!
On June 18th, 2006, Gary Miller Sr. held off the brothers of Oswego Karting Terror — Matt and Chris Stevens — to win the 14-kart 50-lapper! The entire race–along with almost every Galletta’s race since mid-2005–is completely available via our embedded YouTube videos!
Gary Miller Sr. (posing with his #1 fan & son, Collin Miller) after winning the 45-Lap opening event of 2007 consisting of fifteen karts! Gary’s new #24, his former backup frame, was rebuilt by Dick Dann, the motor was purchased off eBay by Chris Stevens and tuned-up by Matt Stevens.
He did not win a feature in 2008, but he took a Twin-30 feature on 6/14/2009 (picture above) and won the 2010 Season Opener, albeit around 20-30 lbs. light based on our new minimum weight requirement rules. Gary was pretty miffed about this, but some drivers at both Galletta’s and Oswego Kartway’s insisted Matt would not win as much is he weighed as much as some others (and Matt proved the doubters wrong as his win percentage remains higher than anybody else’s – weight or not).
Also, Gary raced the 15th Annual 2010 Galletta’s Karting Klassic 200, and did spend a most of the 200 lapper in the top-3 (leading many laps) and looked destined for a sure-fire top-5 finish when he angrily pulled off the track in 3rd, nearly hitting spectators (including his own son), and vowed to never come back. Gary came back the next day, but has continually voiced his displeasure over the way Matt and Chris operate their own track in their own backyard.
- Gary raced super stocks at Oswego Speedway before taking up kart racing.
- One of the highest point-scoring visiting drivers in Galletta’s Karting Club All-Time Point Standings History in addition to also being one of the All-Time winningest drivers on our track. If Gary applied himself and raced for full seasons, it wouldn’t even be close, he’d have a large lead on the next closest visiting driver. But he gave up too much, often times getting annoyed and angry over perceived problems that only he ever seems to talk about (and everyone else gets mad at him about).
- Won 1 regular feature race in each 2005, 2006, 2007, none in 2008 – barely losing a few here and there – then won again in 2009 and 2010.
- Won the first non-winners race ever in 2005, although several competitors in the race complained that he did not go to the rear after tapping a spun-out driver.
- Won the Highest Visitor Points-Per-Race Points Standings in 2005, although several competitors noted that at least one visiting driver had a higher point total and thought the points-per-race wasn’t a good way to give the title, so they shared it.
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Karts:
Team Miller Brewery Old #24 & New #24. Often repaired/race-prepped by Matt Stevens (for nothing), so we call it Galletta’s/Miller #24. Occasionally drives a Galletta’s rental, and seems to drive the Galletta’s #0 better than his own karts. Gary retired his 1st #24 kart after a bad weld job, and sold his 2nd kart (see below).
Nicknames:
Gearin’ Gary, Grumpy Gary, Grouchy Gary, Quitter Gary Miller, Backstabbing Gary, Gossipin’ Gary… (well, he didn’t like most of those…)
Gary in one of his two #24 karts before the Galletta’s Kart Klassic on September 23rd, 2006 – a kart that he retired after a bad weld job. Photo by Gene Galletta, Edited by Chris Stevens.
Career lowlights:
Retired almost every single race that he didn’t win in each of his seasons raced – 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Only one season, 2009, did he almost keep his head, but still angrily retired and came back. He often loses his head and gets too easily frustrated, which has cost him many high-scoring positions and even a few wins here and there. In 2009 he worked on this and was much better than he used to be, but reverted back to his old self in 2010, his final season racing (due to unrelated neck injuries).
Real (no foolin’?) Retirement: Gary was forced to retire from Karting after the 2010 season due to nagging neck injuries he suffered at a workplace accident years ago. He occasionally (actually, rarely) visits to watch a race.
Did you know? :
On Galletta’s track lingo, when you “Pull a Gary Miller” means that you throw an angry temper tantrum, pull out of a race and leave, though Ed has also done it several times too (of course, we love those racing both of guys and wish they wouldn’t do it). The habit has even spawned a parody of Gary when he asked me to take his name off of this website, so I did as a prank. You can see the comedic prank version here. Gary is always one of the top-runners and if he finished every race, he’d be in the top 3 to 5 in points competing for the title and have a handful of wins every single year if he just kept his cool and raced.
What’s new with Gary… and his kart:
Gary occasionally let his son Gary Miller Jr. race instead of him. But since Gary has 2 fast karts, we wanted him to race one and let his son race the other to form a potent 1-2-punch team, but he never did.
Gary moved to the Carolinas late in 2007, but returned to racing in 2008-09. He also planned to put his son Collin Miller behind the wheel of a kart that he has stored at Galletta’s for over two years, but never did.
After the 2010 Klassic, Gary claimed to be done with racing anything anywhere. And his nagging neck injuries (and surgeries) from a workplace accident actually did assure his full retirement this time.
Gary occasionally stops by to say hello, but never sticks around to watch a race. But even with out Gary…
Gary’s kart will go on… and onnnnnn….
Gary sold his primary #24 kart (which Matt repaired and stored for little to no thanks and less money) after the 2010 Klassic,
The #24 was bought by his friend (who purchased the kart after the 2010 Klassic — who then drove it in some rather humorous and accident-filled non-point rookie races narrated by Arnold “AJ” Nason after the Klassic), but then mysteriously retired before the 2011 point season even began! (Note: We could retroactively grant everyone in the race points if we had their names. We don’t. Anybody step forward with names or… don’t want your name attached to the most wreck-laden rookie races in our history?)
It was then sold again to Adam Lytle before the 2011 season opener. Adam drove it for years as the #33c and actually surpassed Gary’s impressive all-time wins and stats in his old kart.
When Adam semi-retired, he sold the kart to Chris and Matt, who now own it as one of the Galletta’s Karting Club house rental karts. It has always been fast and smooth machine, and since it is longer than most karts, taller drivers tend to prefer racing it.
And this, his kart keeps winning without him, and — as seen here — is one of the all-time winningest karts in our track’s history!
COMPLETE LIST OF RACES ENTERED BY GARY MILLER SR.
| Jun 12, 2005 | 6/12/2005 – Mark Miller Leads the OHV Invasion & Dominates the 14-Kart Field! |
| Jun 05, 2005 | 6/5/2005 – Ed Maynes takes the ’05 Season Opener (40-Laps/10-karts) |
