05/28/2017 – Tommy Gale was a journeyman driver who accumulated 246 career Cup starts (and 4 top-10 finishes), most often behind the wheel of a Ford or Mercury owned by long-time Dearborn loyalist Elmo Langley.
For one race in 1983, Tommy was called upon by car owner Bud Reeder (who gave a young Arkansas driver named Mark Martin his first shot at Cup racing back in 1981, giving Martin and Pontiac 2 pole positions) to drive one of his Grand Prix’s for the Budweiser 500 at Dover. This would be Gale’s only career Pontiac start in Cup and it would mark the ending phase of Reeder’s presence in Cup as an owner (the car was self-sponsored under Reeder Racing, Reeder’s race cars would only make 5 more starts in 1983 after which he was then completely out as a Cup car owner) .
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