OKLAHOMA CITY, OK :: Trey Marcham finished seventh in Sunday’s Myrtle Beach 400 at Myrtle Beach Speedway after a wild race which saw an up and down race for the Oklahoma City driver. Marcham ran towards the front in much of the 200-lap Late Model race.
Marcham had started the race in the seventh position by virtue of his finish in the Dash for Cash race which he qualified for as a result of his wins back on July 4th. Marcham began saving tires early and rode around in the middle of the pack in the first half of the race before working his way up to the ninth position at the halfway break.
“Honestly, I’m not quite sure what happened,” Marcham said. “At the beginning of the first set, I felt like the car was really fast. I wasn’t trying to pass anyone, just riding then everyone went sooner than I thought they would. I wasn’t trying to contend and it hurt us because we got behind too many cars. We got back to eighth before the break.”
After getting four new tires at the halfway break, Marcham approached the second half the same way – saving tires until around 30 to go before dropping the hammer.
“The second set, it was kind of the same thing – get up front and ride,” Marcham explained. “A lot of people began racing hard – they were running three wide. They were racing hard early which helped us out because they used their stuff up. We didn’t get back where we needed to be. We still had a good weekend. It would’ve been better if we had a top three or brought the trophy home.”
Trey Marcham finished the race in seventh. Earlier this year, in the 2012 Myrtle Beach 400 race which was run in March 2013, Marcham was taken out by a lapped car while running inside the top-10.
Marcham intends to race at Myrtle Beach Speedway again in 2014 as well as at Martinsville and other big Late Model Stock Car races.
