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Sexton/Gatlin Racing
[email protected]
[email protected]
(619) 454-6945
For Immediate Release
SEXTON/GATLIN RACING ENTERING FOUR CARS THIS SATURDAY AT BARONA!
(Lakeside, CA, May 15, 2019) When the POWRi California Lightning Sprint Car Series takes to the track at the Barona Speedway this Saturday, May 18th, Sexton/Gatlin Racing will be expanding as it enters a fourth car into the competition. Joining father Brent Sexton and his sons Dalton and Grant on Saturday will be San Diego’s David Bezio.
For Saturday’s event, Bezio, who formerly raced in the CLS and USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series,’ will be in the same #2 that NASCAR Truck Series regular Sheldon Creed drove to an impressive third-place finish at Barona on April 6th. It will be the past CLS main event winner’s first racing appearance in an open-wheel car in several years.
For Dalton and Grant, it will be their second appearance at Barona in 2019. At the first race there in April, Dalton stayed around the top five all race long before being shoved into the wall late in the going. That knocked him out of competition and saddled him with a frustrating 18th place finish. Likewise, Grant got off to a good start in the same main event and was in fourth place when he hit a rut in turn four on the sixth lap and broke a radius rod. Unable to steer, he clipped the front straight wall and turned over. Fortunately, he was uninjured, but the car was done for the night. He got credit for 20th place.
While it will be the second race of the year at Barona for the Sexton siblings, like Bezio, it will be Brent Sexton’s first race at the track this season. Plagued with mechanical ills, he sat out the April race on the San Diego County dirt oval. The Tennessee native, who has two CLS championships to his credit, recorded his best finish of the year two weeks ago when he placed eighth at the Ventura Raceway.
Coming off a fifth-place finish at Bakersfield and a sixth at Ventura, Dalton is 10th in the championship standings and that is the highest of the Sexton/Gatlin drivers thus far in 2019. Grant, the 2018 CLS Rookie of the Year, is 14th and Brent is 23rd.
For fans who wish to attend Saturday’s race at the Barona Speedway, gates will open at noon and the first race will take the green flag at 5:00. The track is located at 1754 Wildcat Road in Lakeside (92040). The track website is https://baronaspeedway.com/ and the office phone number is (619) 749-8115.
To keep up with all the exploits of the Sexton/Gatlin Racing Team, be sure to visit it’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Sexton-Gatlin-Racing-1173560279445564/
Sexton/Gatlin Racing would like to thank the following companies for making the 2018 season possible. Scotty and Jimmy Keys, Sexton Fire Protection, BK Wings, Troy Dirt, Victory Graphix, Swift Powdercoat, Maxima Oil and Infiniti Shocks. If you or your company would like to be a part of the Sexton/Gatlin team for the 2019 campaign, please call (619) 454-6945 or E-mail [email protected]
2019 POWRi California Lightning Sprint Car Series
March 16 Bakersfield Speedway – Brent 12th B – Dalton 10th A – Grant 19th A
March 23 Ventura Raceway – Brent DNS – Dalton 11th A – Grant 7th A
April 6 Barona Speedway – Dalton 18th – Grant 20th – Sheldon 3rd – Brent DNR
April 20 Bakersfield Speedway – Brent 16th – Dalton – 5th – Grant 18th
May 4 Ventura Raceway – Brent 8th – Dalton 6th – Grant – 17th
May 18 Barona Speedway
June 1 Ventura Raceway
June 15 Bakersfield Speedway
June 29 Barona (Open Comp)
July 6 Ventura Raceway
July 13 Barona (Open Comp)
July 27 Santa Maria Raceway
July 27 Barona (Open Comp)
August 10 Barona Speedway
August 24 Ventura Raceway
September 7 Ventura Raceway
September 21 Bakersfield Speedway
September 21 Barona (Open Comp)
October 5 Ventura Raceway
October 26 Ventura Raceway
November 17 Bakersfield Speedway
Photo courtesy of Pit Princess Photography
This release produced by Scott Daloisio. Contact (909) 226-7768 mailto:[email protected]
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