Stanton Barrett is again within the NASCAR Xfinity Sequence as he hopes to make his first begin since 2019 when he enters Saturday’s Street America occasion. He’ll drive the #35 Toyota GR Supra for Emerling-Gase Motorsports.
“Trying ahead to racing at my favourite street course and with a top quality group behind me,” stated Barrett. “This is a crucial race for my corporations and as properly for the group to realize useful factors.”
Barrett has competed in NASCAR for the reason that Nineties, making begins in all three nationwide divisions with over 200 on the Xfinity degree. His final race was at Watkins Glen in 2019 the place he completed twenty-third for MBM Motorsports after a two-year absence. He joined Mike Harmon’s group (now often called CHK Racing) for the 2022 Watkins Glen occasion however did not qualify.
In 5 Xfinity begins at Street America, his finest end is seventeenth on the inaugural race in 2010.
Between his final two Xfinity races run (2016 at Street America and the aforementioned 2019 Watkins Glen), he did a pair of Cup Sequence races for Rick Ware Racing however retired from each. The 2 begins have been his first at NASCAR’s prime degree in a decade, and he did one other Cup one-off on the Daytona Street Course in 2020.
Since 2021, Barrett has served as a street course ringer within the ARCA Menards Sequence and raced at Nashville within the Stadium Tremendous Vehicles. Throughout this era, he scored prime tens in each of his ARCA begins at Mid-Ohio and got here shut at The Glen the place he positioned twelfth. In SST, his finest end is a fourth within the second 2022 race.
“We’re excited to have Stanton and his companions on board for this weekend,” commented EGM co-owner Joey Gase. “His wealth of expertise is a big asset for the group, and we will’t wait to see what Stanton can do behind the wheel of the #35.”
Outdoors of racing, he works as a movie stuntman and director. Amongst his latest works are as a stunt driver in Black Panther: Wakanda Without end and NCIS: Hawaii, whereas additionally overseeing stunts for the upcoming thrillers 57 Seconds and Insurgent Ridge.
The #35 is thirty-second in proprietor factors with house owners Gase and Patrick Emerling, Parker Chase, Leland Honeyman, Alex Labbé, C.J. McLaughlin, and David Starr making begins. Gase holds its lone prime ten of a ninth at Talladega. Chase, Honeyman, and Labbé piloted the vehicles on the first 4 street course races of the yr, with Chase and Honeyman respectively lacking the present at COTA and Sonoma whereas Chase and Labbé completed thirty-fifth and twenty-first at Portland and Chicago.
