“We had a really good car tonight,” added Pope.  “I really owe it to all the guys that come and help me out at the track.  I couldn’t do this with out my parents (Irvin and Debbie Pope). They help us pull money together so we could come here and race. I really want to thank Mike Garvey for helping us out as well.”

Michael Pope will be back in action on November 9th at the Peach State Speedway for the World Crown 300. Pope has won at the half-mile track and would love add another Peach State Speedway victory to his list of achievements.  

“The car was really getting into the corners tonight,” said Pope.  “We got up to fourth and then we got spun by a lap car.  There’s not much you can say when something like that happens. We then messed the nose up under yellow when a car stopped on the track in front of us.”

The incident, putting him towards the back of the back, turned out to be a good omen for Pope as several leaders got tangled up over the course of the next 40 laps.  Pope went from 14th on the track to inside the top ten.  As the tires wore off a bit, the car picked up in the closing laps.  Pope worked his car up to fourth before the checkered flag flew, broken nose and all.

Pope Soldiers to Top-Five Finish at Cordele

Hometown Track Results in Solid Finish

Sometimes in racing you can finish in the top five and wonder how you avoided the mess along the way.  For Michael Pope, it was a night where a negative became a positive at the Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia, as he drove his machine to a top-five finish.

Pope was making his first ASA Southeast Asphalt Tour start in several months.  Things were going his way early as he was running down the third place competitor, but trouble sent him into the spin cycle.