The Headline(s)
Score one for the Pennsylvania Posse, as Brent Marks’s red-hot summer streak scored his No. 19 team a $100,000 payday in the Historical Big One at Eldora.
How it Happened
2022 Historical Big One
Where: Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio (streamed on DirtVision)
Winner’s Purse: $100,000
Brent Marks’s scorching tear through sprint car racing this summer carried onto Eldora, with Marks blasting past leader and defending King’s Royal winner Tyler Courtney on a lap 25 restart, leading the last 16 laps to score the $100,000 win, his 12th of 2022 in a 410 sprint car.
They don’t call him the hottest Sprint Car driver in the country for nothing…
From 14th-to-1st, @BMRacing19 drives through the field for his 12th win of the season, netting him $100,000 tonight at @EldoraSpeedway! pic.twitter.com/NnP02vu5sv
— World of Outlaws (@WorldofOutlaws) July 15, 2022
The win came from the 14th starting position for Marks, who said in victory lane that his car didn’t feel like a winner until the surface slicked over during the second half of the feature. Marks did make interesting in the last couple laps, as he struggled to put James McFadden a lap down, allowing Courtney to close the gap in the final two laps.
Courtney led a rocky opening 18 laps of the feature that was stopped three times, including a lengthy stop under lap 9 that saw polesitter Sye Lynch lose an engine and top-five runners Kyle Larson and Kraig Kinser both forced to pit with flat tires. Rico Abreu was able to mount a mid-race challenge, leading laps 19-21 before yielding the point back to Courtney.
2022 HISTORICAL BIG ONE RACE RESULTS
David Gravel won Wednesday night’s Joker’s Wild preliminary feature.
Success Stories
The Historical Big One is sanctioned by the World of Outlaws, but their regulars had very little to say about the outcome of Thursday’s race, with non-Outlaw drivers sweeping the podium and taking four of the top-six finishing positions (Marks and Abreu run independent schedules while Courtney is full-time on the All-Star Circuit of Champions tour and sixth-place finisher Brian Brown is a track regular at the Knoxville Raceway).
We got “Posse” chants in the grandstands of @EldoraSpeedway! #HB100K
— The Grove Bridge (@TheGroveBridge) July 15, 2022
To see current series points leader Brad Sweet score the top finish for the WoO regulars in the Historical Big One, and to do so the night after fellow title contender David Gravel snapped a…
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