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May 2nd, 2012- David Earl Gentry and the Gentry Motorsports team found themselves in Abany, GA this past weekend April 27th & 28th for a pair of NeSmith Dirt Late Model Series points races. Friday nights performance produced an 11th place finish and the team rebounded on Saturday to take home the Victory and the first win of the 2012 season. Friday the team qualified 6th out of the 31 competitors in attendance for the $2000 to-win event.. Starting 6th on the field, Gentry settled in and began to work with the CSB Consultants/Eades Farms/ Hardy and Asscioates/Warrior Chassis, gaining the fifth spot. Track conditions wasn't favorable for passing. On lap 14 Gentry was running fifth, but got out of shape coming off the second turn on lap 14 and lost several spots. The race was halted by four cautions and the Gentry Motorsports team would wind up with an 11th place finish. Saturday was a different ballgame & game plan. Gentry and Team prepared their Warrior Chassis carefully after watching track prep on the Albany Motor Speedway. The team would go out and qualify
9th on the 29 car field. Franklin
took the lead at the start of the race from the pole position
followed by Sanders, Jake Teague of Oliver Springs, TN in the
Wade’s Body Shop Special, the 2011 VP Racing Fuels Rookie of the
Year Chase Edge of Lafayette, AL in the Jones Welding Supply
Special and Breuer. Cantrell brought out the first yellow flag
when he cut down a tire and spun in turn three. When the field went back to green flag action,
Breuer pulled up to race side-by-side with Edge for the fourth
spot. By lap five, Franklin held an eight car-length lead over
Sanders. Tom Maddox of Centre, AL spun the Meeks Truck and
Trailer Rocket in turn two on lap seven to bring out the second
caution flag. Franklin led Sanders, Teague, Breuer, Edge,
Gentry, Turner, Harrod, White, and Justin Summers of Greenback,
TN in the J.T. Kerr Racing Equipment Stinger back to the green
flag. On the restart, Gentry drove under Edge for the fifth
spot, and Harrod got around Edge for the sixth position on lap
ten. Gentry continued his charge to the front of the
pack by driving under Breuer for the fourth spot on lap 12. The
caution lamp was fired up for the third time on lap 14 when J.R.
Moseley of Columbus, GA in the Moseley Auto Repair Special
caused Sealy to spin in turn three. Moseley was ticketed for the
caution, and Sealy got his spot back for the restart. When the field went back to green, Sanders,
Teague and Gentry busted out three-wide in a fierce battle for
the second spot. Sanders was able to hold the position, but
Gentry got by Teague for the third spot. One lap later, Gentry
sailed underneath Sanders to grab the second spot, and was in
hot pursuit of the leader Franklin. Franklin’s lead evaporated when the caution
flag came out on lap 17 when Mark Tice stalled the Precision
Marine Trak-Star in turn four. Franklin led Gentry, Sanders,
Breuer, White, Teague, Harrod, Thomas, Johnny Stokes of
Columbus, MS in the Bassett Hound Motorsports GRT, and Edge down
for the restart. Gentry dove under Franklin down the front
straightaway into turn one, and the lead duo raced side-by-side
for two laps until the caution flag came out on lap 19 when
Turner stopped after cutting down a tire. Franklin still held
the point over Gentry for the restart, and Sealy had charged
from the 24th starting spot and into the top ten for the first
time in the race. The restart saw Gentry once again dive under
Franklin going into the first turn, and Gentry made it stick by
taking the lead coming off the second turn. Breuer followed
Gentry’s tire tracks on the bottom for the track, and passed
Sanders to take over the third spot. White also passed Sanders
on lap 20 to take command of the fourth position. By lap 23, Breuer moved inside his AES Racing
Teammate Franklin to battle side-by-side for the second spot,
and made the pass before the next caution flag on lap 25 when
Lavon Sloan of Moultrie, GA nosed the Weeks Farm Machinery
Special into the turn two wall. Gentry led Breuer, Franklin,
White, Thomas, Sanders, Teague, Stokes, Harrod, and Sealy back
to the green flag. While the top three drivers settled into their
respective positions, business was picking up behind them among
the rest of the drivers in the top ten. Sanders came from the
sixth spot to pass Thomas and White and move back up to fourth
on lap 27. Sanders, White, Thomas, Teague and Stokes were
waging war for the fourth spot, but Teague became a casualty on
lap 29 when got a piece of the fourth turn wall to bring out the
caution flag. Stokes also had to give up a top ten spot during
the caution period with a cut down right-rear tire. That earned
Stokes the Dominator Race Products Hard Luck Award. When the field went back to green flag action,
White worked his way around Sanders for the fourth spot on lap
32, as Gentry and Breuer began to pull away from Franklin in
third. On lap 34, Gentry worked his way through lapped traffic
and then pulled out to a half-straightaway lead over Breuer. Just when it looked like Gentry would cruise to
the checkered flag, the caution flag came out on lap 39 when
Edge spun in turn two to enable Breuer to close in on Gentry and
set up a green-white-checkered dash to the finish of the race.
Gentry was up to the challenge, as he pulled away at the drop of
the green flag. Behind the leaders, the action was fast and
furious, as Thomas got by White for the fourth spot and Turner
charged back up into the top ten. Gentry took the checkered flag
with a 1.367 second advantage over Breuer.
April 10th, 2012 - David Earl Gentry wheeled the Eades Farm/CSB Consultants/Hardy and Associates/Mastersbilt super late model to a second place finish this past Saturday night at Duck River Speedways season opener. Gentry Motorsports returned to their home turf after a few weeks of no racing for the team. Gentry went out and qualified fifth on the field of eight cars in attendance in the super late model division. Starting fifth in the 25 lap
feature, When the green flag waved, Gentry made no haste to
start making moves to the front of the pack. As the laps click
down, Gentry worked his way up to fourth, as caution would wave
for the second place running of #17R of Brad Skinner, who
collected the wall and blew out a tire he would retire for the
night and that would bump Gentry up to the third spot for the
restart behind the #98 of Eric Hickerson.
Gentry
would get the jump on Hickerson on the restart and get by him
and take the second position . Gentry would make a run at race
the leader on the next lap and show Miller his nose coming out
of turn two on the bottom side of the track as Miller ran the
high side, Miller would have the momentum and pull ahead of
Gentry. As the last lap wound down Gentry would settle for a
second place finish on the night. The Gentry Motorsports team would like thank their sponsors for all their support: Eades Farms, Hardy and Associates, Pogue Body Shop, American Race Tires by Jimmy Smith, CSB Consultants, Maxium Signs & Graphics, 5150 Race Trailers, Stealth Racing Carbs, PPM Racing Products, RPI Racing Suspensions, B-LINE Fabrication, and JPM Promotions
February 4th, 2012- Gentry
Motorsports momentum continued on night #2 at Eastbay Raceway
Park in Tampa, Fla. of NeSmith Dirt Late Model Series Racing.
Coming off an 11th place finish the previous night, Gentry and
the team regrouped and set their sights on capitalizing on their
notes from night #1.
To rebound from night #1, Gentry would go out in
qualifying and lay down the fastest lap amongst the 50 car field
with a 15.627 second lap and the fastest of the weekend in
qualifying. This would set Gentry up to start on the pole of his
heat. Gentry cruised on to win his heat race, earning him the
pole position in the feature. As the green flag dropped on main event, Gentry took the lead at the start of the race from the pole position coming off the second turn followed by Hitt, Franklin, Devin Dixon of Apollo Beach, FL in the Mathis Farms Special and Horton. Franklin passed Hitt for the second spot on the first lap with an inside move coming off the fourth turn. Franklin chased down Gentry and was beginning to look inside to challenge for the lead by lap seven, as the leaders approach the cars on the tail of the lead lap. The first of four caution flags came out on lap nine when Thomas spun in turn one. With Gentry in the lead, Franklin chose the inside for the Dixie-Style double file restart behind the leader with Hitt to his outside in third. When the green flag came out, Franklin was able to find enough real estate on the inside to pass Gentry for the lead by the time they came off the fourth turn. Gentry would challenge a couple more times for the lead on restarts but would not make the pass, while also fending off challenges from third place running of Austin Hubbard. Gentry would finish second behind race winner Rambo Franklin. Complete results can be seen at www.nesmithracing.com
Gentry turned in his best career performance at East Bay
Raceway Park with his second-place finish while conducting R&D
work for Bilstein Shocks. Gentry was testing the new $150
Bilstein Spec Shocks for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model
Series, and showed that spending less can be faster.
“We were good last night before the power steering belt
came off on lap five, and Bilstein built be a new shock for
tonight that made the car even better,” Gentry said. “This new
$150 Bilstein Spec Shock is going to be a good thing for dirt
late model racing by saving a lot of people a lot of money and
still get great performance. Tonight, with these shocks, was the
best I’ve ever ran here.”
Gentry and Team will wrap up the weekend tonight at
Eastbay for the $3000 To-Win 50 lap NeSmith Dirt Late Model
Series Event.
“Disclaimer-some notes are from NeSmith.com” February 3rd, 2012 - David Earl Gentry and the Gentry Motorsports kicked off the 2012 race season at Eastbay Raceway Park in Tampa, Fl. Competing in the season openers of NeSmith Racings Dirt Late Model Series crate races Feb. 2-4, 2012. Gentry opened the season by qualifying 3rd quick in his group and 17th out of the 53 cars with a 16.306 second qualifying lap around Eastbay Raceway Park., Setting him up to start in the 3rd position of his heat race. In heat race action Gentry started in the 3rd position and quickly maneuvered the Eades Farms Warrior chassis out front to take the heat race win and earn the fourth starting spot in the main event. When feature time rolled to the grid, Gentry started out strong for the first five circuits until the power steering belt gave way, leaving Gentry to man handle the Eades farm Warrior chassis. Pursuing cars began to get past Gentry but he remained in the top-10 until lap 33, Gentry spun in turn 4 bringing out the caution. Gentry would restart on the tail end of the field. Gentry worked his way back through the field to the 11th spot and that would be the final position he gained, to finish on night #1 at Eastbay Raceway Park The Gentry Motorsports team will give it another go tomorrow night for round #2 of NeSmith Racings Dirt Late Model Series for a $2000 To-Win 40 lap event. The Gentry Motorsports team would like thank their sponsors for all their support: Eades Farms, Hardy and Associates, Pogue Body Shop, American Race Tires by Jimmy Smith, CSB Consultants, Maxium Signs & Graphics, 5150 Race Trailers, Stealth Racing Carbs, PPM Racing Products, RPI Racing Suspensions, B-LINE Fabrication, and JPM Promotions 2012 Warrior Chassis
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