It’s All Marks In Texas High Limit Tilt

FORT WORTH, Texas — Brent Marks has found a second home at the Texas Motor Speedway.

The Myerstown, Pa., native now owns three victories in five tries at the Texas dirt track, including back-to-back wins with Kubota High Limit Racing.

On Thursday, he added a Stockyard Stampede score to go along with his $50,000 check from last year’s All-In Championship Weekend.

Starting from the pole on Thursday, Marks controlled all 25 laps but had his hands full dealing with several early-race restarts, one close call with Brad Sweet, and a load of lapped traffic in the closing stages.

The win gave the Murray-Marks Motorsports No. 19 team their first victory of the season and fourth career High Limit triumph.

Chasing Marks for the entirety of the race and coming close to overtaking him on a lap-nine restart was Sweet, who finished second by 1.420 seconds.

It was the sixth podium in seven High Limit races for the Kasey Kahne Racing No. 49 team, which debuted a new-look gold design to celebrate 100 years of NAPA Auto Parts.

Completing the podium was Sam Hafertepe Jr. with a stellar performance in his home state. A third-place finish for the Hill’s Racing No. 15h puts them alongside Kyle Larson and the Silva Motorsports No. 57 as the only non-full-time teams to podium with both Kubota High Limit Racing and the World of Outlaws this season.

Closing out the top five was another Texan Chase Randall with a season-best finish of fourth and Tyler Courtney in fifth aboard the Clauson-Marshall Racing No. 7bc.

The finish:

Feature (25 Laps): 1. 19-Brent Marks[1]; 2. 49-Brad Sweet[2]; 3. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[4]; 4. 9R-Chase Randall[8]; 5. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[3]; 6. 9-Kasey Kahne[6]; 7. 45X-Landon Crawley[18]; 8. 24-Rico Abreu[9]; 9. 57-Kyle Larson[13]; 10. 88-Tanner Thorson[22]; 11. 87-Aaron Reutzel[19]; 12. 13-Daison Pursley[16]; 13. 14-Spencer Bayston[17]; 14. 42-Sye Lynch[11]; 15. 5-Brenham Crouch[23]; 16. J2-John Carney II[21]; 17. 4-Austin Mundie[15]; 18. 84-Ty Gibbs[10]; 19. 88W-Austin McCarl[12]; 20. 22M-Rees Moran[20]; 21. 69K-Christopher Bell[5]; 22. 36-Jason Martin[24]; 23. 24D-Danny Sams III[7]; 24. 26-Justin Peck[14]