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.

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

“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