George Gorham Jr wins Bigley Memorial in epic beatdown

It’s the biggest win of George Gorham’s career and he did it in the Bill Bigley Sr. Memorial 128 in the most dominant fashion imaginable.

George Gorham Jr.
Ty Majeski -8.425
Carson Hocevar -12.042
Nick Neri -1

To spell it out, Gorham won by eight seconds over one of the best to ever race modern Super Late Models whom also has a Truck Series championship and 12 seconds over a Cup Series driver. Together, they all lapped the field on a track that is a third-mile around the apron and a half-mile around the wall.

It was a tremendous pace, made only more impressive that he won from 12th after an inversion reset the starting lineup, and he drove through the top-10 and took the lead on Lap 67 and never looked back. The final 126 laps were all run without another caution and it allowed Gorham to just settle in.

“The car was perfect,” Gorham told Short Track Scene after the race. “I can’t thank (crew chief) Mike Garvey enough for giving me a hot rod … Mario Gosselin and you know, my sister-in-law, Michelle Gosselin and all the guys that helped me, Lamar, Vince Jackson, the car was just on the rail when we unloaded.

“We never really made much changes. We worked on race trim and we were just so consistent as practice showed. We bolted on tires and ran an .80-something, and we just concentrated on our race trim.”

Gorham said the win was a tribute to his father-in-law, Mike McCreary, the venerable Florida racer that meant a lot to the greater Gorham and Gosselin families.

“I wish he was here to see this but with the NASCAR offseason, my brother-in-law (Mario) and sister-in-law (Michelle) were here to see it,” Gorham said. “The whole family was here to experience it.”

Gorham knew his car was that good two laps into the race when the only caution waved for an incident involving Dustin Dunn, Michael Atwell and Jesse Dutilly.

“Oh, 100 percent,” Gorham said. “I could just turn under people so good. Mario told me ‘we have the best car’ and ‘just relax.’ He said ‘it turns so good in the center and just drives off,’ and by time we got the lead, I was just backing off and trying to save it just in case.

“I would run an .08 and he would run an .06. He ran a .10 and I was just trying to match whatever he ran. I was worried what would happen if a caution would come out but thank god it never did.”

For Majeski, who finished second, it came in a backup car which is actually his primary car for this coming week at the Snowball Derby due to a oil pump belt failure that forced them to switch cars. As it turns out, Majeski said it didn’t matter what car he ran against Gorham.

“Yeah, honestly, I don’t know that there was really anything we could do to match what the 10 car had tonight,” Majeski said of Gorham said. “It’s not like we were a shock or a spring or a track bar change away. I don’t know that there was much fruit for us to grab to run with the 10 car so they just nailed it tonight.

“Congratulations to them. I’m not going to use the backup car as an excuse because I just don’t think we were going to get there.”

With all of that said, Majeski was proud of what he and crew chief Toby Nuttleman were able to do to get this car swapped over to race Freedom Factory instead of Five Flags Speedway.

“It’s the same style car and everything so they’re close, but from the time we blew up to the time we had this car on the track, it was about 25 minutes,” Majeski added. “Toby was doing some stuff in the rear and I swapped over all four shock and springs from that car to this car, changed the gear and the team was doing all the little things that needed to be done.

“Really proud of the effort and really cool to unload this car with no time on the race track and mock up with a P3. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite enough.”

Hocevar was the only other driver to finish on the lead lap and accomplished that driving for Richie Wauters Motorsports.

“It was a lot of fun. I was reminding myself that we were still passing cars, because I think second and third were checked out from fourth. The 10 was way checked out on us, so I just reminded myself that my stuff’s not driving good, but there’s a lot more people that are driving way worse.

“There were no stages or comp cautions or whatever, which was a lot of fun. You just get to go 128 straight, so that was really fun.”

Despite the lap two crash, Atwell claimed the UARA championship, which is not determined by points but money earned over the course of the season.

“I can’t thank all these guys behind me enough. We worked our butts off this weekend. I thought we had a really good car there. Just checked up in front of me. I was wide open, and there was nowhere we could go.

“These guys have worked their butts off all year, got some great notes. Obviously, George was really fast. Super happy for the team and everybody that supports this organization, being able to bring this home.”

Bill Bigley Memorial 128 X
Freedom Factory
November 29 2025