Gundaker Teams With Millard Family Racing Eyeing MLRA Rookie Title
MLRA driver, Trevor Gundaker had a high hopes going into his rookie season last year. Gundaker was aiming for the Lucas Oil Midwest Late Model Racing Association (MLRA) Sunoco Race Fuels Rookie of the Year honor. But a busy family racing schedule that saw him and brother Gordy going in different directions proved to be challenging and brought an early end to his points chasing aspirations and forced him to withdraw from the rookie battle.
For the 2023 season, “T-Rev” has returned, this time with a new team, a new car and even bigger goals for the upcoming season. The 20 year-old driver has teamed up with long time family friend and fellow late model racer Reid Millard in a full time opportunity as part of Millard’s Jefferson City, Missouri based race team, ‘Millard Family Racing’ (MFR).
“It’s going to be really helpful having him, having all of the resources he brings and the resources with my parents as well. It will be nice now to where if we need something we can go get it more or less. It’s not like we’re going to go out there and get all new stuff and spend a lot of money, but we are going to use our funds and resources wisely to where we are smart in the money spending range, but we are also still using enough resources to be competitive.”
In 2022 Gundaker made a total of seven MLRA starts, with a 12th-place run topping the charts in his first four starts. But the driver from St. Charles, MO made sure to finish strong, ending the season with three straight top ten finishes including his $5,000 triumph during MLRA championship weekend. “We had good momentum rolling out of last year and learned a lot which is good, and now we have a bit of a notebook heading into Wheatland (Lucas Oil Speedway), Tri-City, and the Lake (Lake Ozark Speedway).”
“I really enjoy going to Wheatland, it’s usually a really good feature racing track and you can usually race all over it. Then we go to Granite which is home for me, so I know that place like the back of my hand. The first couple of weekends for us are looking promising more or less, being able to go to race tracks that we know will be really nice.”
Adding to a potentially strong start to the season will be an April 13th stop off at the Davenport Speedway in Davenport, IA where Gundaker brought home a strong 4th place finish last season in a field of 39 cars during the Summer Nationals tour.