6.10.22 World of Outlaws Sprints Results
A win at Knoxville Raceway is special anytime a driver can get one. But to Brent Marks, it’s more than just another Victory Lane stage – it’s long-awaited success at a place he’s been trying so hard to improve at.
“This ranks right up there for me,” said Marks, of Myerstown, PA. “I’ve spent a lot of time here and struggled a lot; been working really hard to get a good program here. I felt like we had some strength last year at the Nationals. I just couldn’t wait to come back.”
After 30 career attempts, Marks finally broke through Friday night for his first-ever win at The Sprint Car Capital of the World, collecting $10,000 for his efforts on night #1 of the Brownells Big Guns Bash.
Better yet, he did it in dominating fashion, a clean sweep of the program – collecting his first career Slick Woody’s Quick Time Award for fastest overall lap in My Place Hotels Qualifying, winning his Heat Race, the DIRTVision FAST PASS Dash and leading all 25 laps of the NOS Energy Drink Feature.
But to do it, he had to hold off the best of the best all throughout the program. A grand total of 52 World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series competitors packed the infield pit area, consisting of full-time Outlaws, Knoxville 410 Sprint Car regulars and even a fellow Pennsylvanian in Anthony Macri – the winningest Sprint Car driver in the nation so far this year.
With all the big guns in the house, Marks never let the pressure get to him. He gassed it at the drop of the green and took off, opening a nice advantage over Brian Brown and Logan Schuchart before hitting lapped traffic on Lap 8.
While Marks zoomed through lapped traffic, Brown was not as quick getting by the slower cars and allowed Marks to widen the gap. Schuchart took advantage of the situation and made a move for second on Brown but gave it right back two laps later. As they approached the checkered, in came the wrench to crash everyone’s plans.
A red flag was displayed after track points leader Austin McCarl took a tumble in Turns 1-2 with 22 laps complete, resetting the field and erasing Marks’ lead. With only three laps remaining, everyone knew it was go-time.
“When that red came out, I was kind of licking my chops, just because Brent doesn’t run here a lot,” Brown said. “But he’s a smart racecar driver, I knew that, so it’s like ‘I’m gonna dig in my bag of tricks here and figure out anything I’ve ever did here to try and win.’”
While Marks pulled away slightly again on the restart, Schuchart pulled the trigger to the low side for second when Brown checked-up on the cushion. They came around to take the white and Schuchart gave it everything he had but was unable to catch Marks as he crossed the stripe for the win.
“We didn’t need that red, that’s for sure,” Schuchart said. “I felt like we had a very good chance at getting Brent before the red came out, even after we went down the backstretch almost side-by-side. He made the smart move in taking away my line.”
Even for the guy who had dominated all night, sitting idle in the car waiting for the incident cleanup was concerning for the restart.
“Sitting there under red, I think we just lost too much air pressure or something and I got really tight,” Marks said. “I just went into defense mode there. With Brian [Brown] being behind me – I know how good he is here, how he can win these races at the very end – I was just trying to block all lanes as much as I could so he couldn’t get a run on me.”
Marks is trying to be a contender at Knoxville come Nationals time in August. Though he’s struggled at Knoxville in the past, he traveled way out of his way, past closer races, to come and compete with the best and get better this weekend. And it’s paid off.
“It’s a very difficult racetrack, and you’ve gotta be a really smart driver in order to win races here,” Marks said. “I feel like I’m getting to that point.”
Schuchart crossed in second to record his seventh-straight top-10 finish. After debuting a brand-new car at Bristol in April, the Shark Racing #1s squad has been one of the most consistent teams on the tour and continued it with their sixth podium of the season Friday.
Brown crossed the stripe third in his Casey’s/FVP #21, matching his best finish of the season against the Outlaws. He and crew chief Danny Lasoski put their heads and loads of experience together Friday and bagged a solid run as the highest-finishing Knoxville regular in the field.
“I’m a Knoxville guy, true and true,” Brown said. “To be able to represent them… I don’t care if it’s an Outlaws race or not, it’s just a race that’s got tougher crowd.
“There’s been so many years I’ve been amped-up and try to do different stuff when the Outlaws come to town. As a team, we just wanted to stick to the basics and do what we do every single week here.”
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The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series continues the Brownells Big Guns Bash Saturday evening with another $10,000 check on the line. Tickets are available online or at the gate; DIRTVision goes live from Knoxville Raceway at 6:15pm CT.
A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 19-Brent Marks[1]; 2. 1S-Logan Schuchart[5]; 3. 21-Brian Brown[3]; 4. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[2]; 5. 41-Carson Macedo[9]; 6. 49-Brad Sweet[4]; 7. 2-David Gravel[7]; 8. 8-Aaron Reutzel[13]; 9. 15-Donny Schatz[18]; 10. 5-Spencer Bayston[10]; 11. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[17]; 12. 24-Rico Abreu[16]; 13. 27-Carson McCarl[11]; 14. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[12]; 15. 09-Matt Juhl[8]; 16. 39M-Anthony Macri[15]; 17. 83-James McFadden[22]; 18. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[21]; 19. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[25]; 20. 9-Kasey Kahne[19]; 21. 1A-Jacob Allen[24]; 22. 22-Riley Goodno[23]; 23. 25-JJ Hickle[14]; 24. 11K-Kraig Kinser[26]; 25. 88-Austin McCarl[6]; 26. 2J-Lynton Jeffrey[20]
Last Chance Showdown (12 Laps): 1. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[2]; 2. 83-James McFadden[6]; 3. 22-Riley Goodno[1]; 4. 1A-Jacob Allen[9]; 5. 3P-Sawyer Phillips[5]; 6. 11K-Kraig Kinser[4]; 7. 7-Justin Henderson[3]; 8. 11-Roger Crockett[7]; 9. 70-Sammy Swindell[8]; 10. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[10]; 11. 7S-Robbie Price[14]; 12. 7W-Dustin Selvage[19]; 13. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[13]; 14. 44-Chris Martin[16]; 15. 14T-Tim Estenson[15]; 16. 2KS-Tasker Phillips[11]; 17. 20-AJ Moeller[12]; 18. 12-Tyler Drueke[20]
C Feature 1: 1. 7W-Dustin Selvage[3]; 2. 12-Tyler Drueke[1]; 3. 5T-Presley Truedson[6]; 4. 1AU-Marcus Dumesny[10]; 5. 76-Nathan Mills[5]; 6. 20G-Noah Gass[13]; 7. 7B-Ben Brown[11]; 8. 6-Bill Rose[14]; 9. 09H-Landon Hansen[12]; 10. (DNF) 55T-McKenna Haase[2]; 11. (DNS) 49J-Josh Schneiderman; 12. (DNS) 14-Josh Higday; 13. (DNS) 2M-Matt Moro; 14. (DNS) 83JR-Kerry Madsen; 15. (DNS) 24X-Terry McCarl; 16. (DNS) 15M-Bobby Mincer
DIRTVision FAST PASS Dash (6 Laps): 1. 19-Brent Marks[1]; 2. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[2]; 3. 21-Brian Brown[6]; 4. 49-Brad Sweet[5]; 5. 1S-Logan Schuchart[8]; 6. 88-Austin McCarl[7]; 7. 2-David Gravel[4]; 8. 09-Matt Juhl[3]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Brent Marks[1]; 2. 2-David Gravel[2]; 3. 41-Carson Macedo[3]; 4. 8-Aaron Reutzel[4]; 5. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[7]; 6. 7-Justin Henderson[8]; 7. 11-Roger Crockett[6]; 8. 22-Riley Goodno[5]; 9. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[11]; 10. 12-Tyler Drueke[9]; 11. 76-Nathan Mills[10]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 88-Austin McCarl[1]; 2. 09-Matt Juhl[2]; 3. 27-Carson McCarl[3]; 4. 39M-Anthony Macri[4]; 5. 9-Kasey Kahne[6]; 6. 3P-Sawyer Phillips[7]; 7. 1A-Jacob Allen[5]; 8. 2KS-Tasker Phillips[9]; 9. 14T-Tim Estenson[8]; 10. 7W-Dustin Selvage[11]; 11. (DNS) 14-Josh Higday
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Brian Brown[1]; 2. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[2]; 3. 5-Spencer Bayston[4]; 4. 25-JJ Hickle[3]; 5. 15-Donny Schatz[9]; 6. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[5]; 7. 83-James McFadden[8]; 8. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[7]; 9. 7S-Robbie Price[11]; 10. 55T-McKenna Haase[6]; 11. 5T-Presley Truedson[10]
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 1S-Logan Schuchart[1]; 2. 49-Brad Sweet[2]; 3. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[4]; 4. 24-Rico Abreu[3]; 5. 2J-Lynton Jeffrey[6]; 6. 11K-Kraig Kinser[7]; 7. 70-Sammy Swindell[5]; 8. 20-AJ Moeller[8]; 9. 44-Chris Martin[11]; 10. 49J-Josh Schneiderman[9]; 11. (DNS) 2M-Matt Moro
Qualifying A (2 Laps): 1. 19-Brent Marks, 00:15.210[5]; 2. 88-Austin McCarl, 00:15.306[4]; 3. 2-David Gravel, 00:15.371[16]; 4. 09-Matt Juhl, 00:15.441[15]; 5. 41-Carson Macedo, 00:15.459[20]; 6. 27-Carson McCarl, 00:15.482[10]; 7. 8-Aaron Reutzel, 00:15.486[13]; 8. 39M-Anthony Macri, 00:15.486[8]; 9. 22-Riley Goodno, 00:15.530[3]; 10. 1A-Jacob Allen, 00:15.565[14]; 11. 11-Roger Crockett, 00:15.586[21]; 12. 9-Kasey Kahne, 00:15.588[7]; 13. 18-Giovanni Scelzi, 00:15.591[17]; 14. 3P-Sawyer Phillips, 00:15.603[11]; 15. 7-Justin Henderson, 00:15.668[24]; 16. 14T-Tim Estenson, 00:15.729[25]; 17. 12-Tyler Drueke, 00:15.747[6]; 18. 2KS-Tasker Phillips, 00:15.752[19]; 19. 76-Nathan Mills, 00:15.775[22]; 20. 14-Josh Higday, 00:15.813[23]; 21. 47X-Dylan Westbrook, 00:15.854[18]; 22. 24X-Terry McCarl, 00:16.135[2]; 23. 20G-Noah Gass, 00:16.246[12]; 24. 7B-Ben Brown, 00:16.491[26]; 25. 6-Bill Rose, 00:16.798[1]; 26. (DNS) 83JR-Kerry Madsen
Qualifying B (2 Laps): 1. 21-Brian Brown, 00:15.440[19]; 2. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 00:15.607[22]; 3. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild, 00:15.610[5]; 4. 49-Brad Sweet, 00:15.648[20]; 5. 25-JJ Hickle, 00:15.649[13]; 6. 24-Rico Abreu, 00:15.650[3]; 7. 5-Spencer Bayston, 00:15.676[12]; 8. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 00:15.703[23]; 9. 3-Ayrton Gennetten, 00:15.742[16]; 10. 70-Sammy Swindell, 00:15.811[7]; 11. 55T-McKenna Haase, 00:15.812[15]; 12. 2J-Lynton Jeffrey, 00:15.815[18]; 13. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss, 00:15.858[2]; 14. 11K-Kraig Kinser, 00:15.863[8]; 15. 83-James McFadden, 00:15.871[17]; 16. 20-AJ Moeller, 00:15.901[6]; 17. 15-Donny Schatz, 00:15.973[25]; 18. 49J-Josh Schneiderman, 00:16.023[9]; 19. 5T-Presley Truedson, 00:16.027[4]; 20. 2M-Matt Moro, 00:16.055[21]; 21. 7S-Robbie Price, 00:16.151[24]; 22. 7W-Dustin Selvage, 00:16.162[10]; 23. 44-Chris Martin, 00:16.316[26]; 24. 1AU-Marcus Dumesny, 00:16.403[1]; 25. 09H-Landon Hansen, 00:18.222[11]; 26. (DNS) 15M-Bobby Mincer
Non-Qualifier: 1. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[1]; 2. 7W-Dustin Selvage[4]; 3. 7S-Robbie Price[2]; 4. 44-Chris Martin[6]; 5. 83JR-Kerry Madsen[11]; 6. 1AU-Marcus Dumesny[8]; 7. 7B-Ben Brown[7]; 8. 09H-Landon Hansen[10]; 9. (DNF) 20G-Noah Gass[5]; 10. (DNF) 6-Bill Rose[9]; 11. (DNS) 24X-Terry McCarl; 12. (DNS) 15M-Bobby Mincer
Hot Laps: 1. 5-Spencer Bayston, 00:15.079[38]; 2. 21-Brian Brown, 00:15.137[45]; 3. 41-Carson Macedo, 00:15.147[20]; 4. 24-Rico Abreu, 00:15.250[29]; 5. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild, 00:15.268[31]; 6. 1A-Jacob Allen, 00:15.284[14]; 7. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss, 00:15.295[28]; 8. 18-Giovanni Scelzi, 00:15.301[17]; 9. 15-Donny Schatz, 00:15.358[51]; 10. 3-Ayrton Gennetten, 00:15.376[42]; 11. 27-Carson McCarl, 00:15.400[10]; 12. 7-Justin Henderson, 00:15.418[24]; 13. 2J-Lynton Jeffrey, 00:15.431[44]; 14. 2-David Gravel, 00:15.449[16]; 15. 8-Aaron Reutzel, 00:15.459[13]; 16. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 00:15.474[49]; 17. 09-Matt Juhl, 00:15.481[15]; 18. 1AU-Marcus Dumesny, 00:15.483[27]; 19. 49-Brad Sweet, 00:15.509[46]; 20. 70-Sammy Swindell, 00:15.511[33]; 21. 25-JJ Hickle, 00:15.518[39]; 22. 5T-Presley Truedson, 00:15.536[30]; 23. 20-AJ Moeller, 00:15.567[32]; 24. 14-Josh Higday, 00:15.583[23]; 25. 39M-Anthony Macri, 00:15.603[8]; 26. 47X-Dylan Westbrook, 00:15.614[18]; 27. 11-Roger Crockett, 00:15.639[21]; 28. 14T-Tim Estenson, 00:15.682[25]; 29. 76-Nathan Mills, 00:15.698[22]; 30. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 00:15.701[48]; 31. 11K-Kraig Kinser, 00:15.718[34]; 32. 49J-Josh Schneiderman, 00:15.721[35]; 33. 55T-McKenna Haase, 00:15.762[41]; 34. 2KS-Tasker Phillips, 00:15.778[19]; 35. 83-James McFadden, 00:15.782[43]; 36. 7S-Robbie Price, 00:15.783[50]; 37. 2M-Matt Moro, 00:15.801[47]; 38. 44-Chris Martin, 00:15.819[52]; 39. 88-Austin McCarl, 00:15.842[4]; 40. 19-Brent Marks, 00:15.861[5]; 41. 9-Kasey Kahne, 00:15.890[7]; 42. 22-Riley Goodno, 00:15.910[3]; 43. 7B-Ben Brown, 00:15.924[26]; 44. 7W-Dustin Selvage, 00:15.948[36]; 45. 20G-Noah Gass, 00:16.104[12]; 46. 15M-Bobby Mincer, 00:16.113[40]; 47. 3P-Sawyer Phillips, 00:16.118[11]; 48. 09H-Landon Hansen, 00:16.660[37]; 49. 12-Tyler Drueke, 00:16.749[6]; 50. 83JR-Kerry Madsen, 00:17.323[9]; 51. 6-Bill Rose, 00:23.297[1]; 52. 24X-Terry McCarl[2]