The Headline(s)
Brent Marks does his best Brandon Overton impression, scoring his second six-figure payday of the weekend at Eldora Speedway in the 39th Kings Royal.
We’ve seen a couple unbelievable individual performances in the past year.@Boverton76 swept the ’21 Double #DLMDream week and hauled out $273,000 in the process@bmracing19 put the Sprint Car world on notice this weekend with his $275,000 sweep of the #HB100K & #KingsRoyal
— ELDORA SPEEDWAY (@EldoraSpeedway) July 17, 2022
How it Happened
2022 Kings Royal
Where: Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio (streamed on DirtVision)
Winner’s Purse: $175,000
Brent Marks’s 13th win of the 2022 season was the biggest of his career, as a lap 22 pass of Brian Brown for the race lead landed him the Kings Royal crown, a $175,000 paycheck that marked his second six-figure race win in three days at Eldora after winning the $100,000 Historical Big One Thursday night.
“By the power bestowed upon me, I hereby crown thee King Brent the 39th.” pic.twitter.com/CQPQk6IuO4
— World of Outlaws (@WorldofOutlaws) July 17, 2022
With Marks running an independent schedule and not needing World of Outlaws show-up points, Marks and his team actually opted to skip the preliminary feature that ran Saturday morning after a Friday rainout. That decision paid off, with Marks winning his heat race and proving unstoppable in his charge to the front of the field in the Kings Royal A-main.
Former Kings Royal winner Kerry Madsen led the opening seven laps, with Knoxville Raceway regular Brian Brown blowing past him on a lap 8 restart to lead until Marks got to the front. Defending Kings Royal champions Tyler Courtney and Kyle Larson never factored in for the race win in 2022, though Larson did charge from 10th to fourth over the final 15 laps.
Marks’s victory made him the first driver in Eldora Speedway history to sweep both the Kings Royal and Historical Big One in the same weekend.
Success Stories
Marks really is the sprint car equivalent of Brandon Overton. Running a true outlaw schedule this year as opposed to a national tour, Marks already has a double-digit win total and is in the neighborhood of a half-million dollars in winnings with months left to go in the season. But perhaps most significant, and the accomplishment that had very audible chants coming from the Eldora grandstand post-race, Marks scored another major victory for the Pennsylvania…
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