Wheatley will make his season debut at his home track of Skagit Speedway in Alger, Wash., which is only a 45-minute drive from his house.
Driver Kolt Walker will pilot the car on Friday at Lubbock Speedway in Lubbock and Saturday at Abilene Speedway in Abilene. In a trio of races at the tracks last season, Walker finished in the top six at all three races.
“The track went really, really dry, which is kind of unusual for Petaluma,” he said. “From the beginning of this year I was hoping for a dry track there because it gets pretty fun.”
Swindell has captured four consecutive top 10 results, which includes a trio of top fives and his first podium finish of the season last week.
Seth Bergman capitalized on that situation last Friday during the ASCS Sooner Region feature at West Siloam Speedway in West Siloam Springs, Okla., where a lengthy red flag for a crash allowed Bergman’s crew to make the needed changes.
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