Story By: TYLER ALTMEYER / ALL STAR CIRCUIT OF CHAMPIONS – MECHANICSBURG, PA – Brent Marks and Murray-Marks Motorsports made it look easy on Friday night at Williams Grove Speedway, not only leading every lap of the annual Tommy Hinnershitz Classic for a $6,000 payday, but securing his first Tezos All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1 victory of the 2022 season in the process, the fifth of his open wheel career and a first at famed half mile.
Relatively uncontested during the 30-lap program, Marks’ only real challenges were in the form of an early segment of heavy lapped traffic, as well as a trio of single-file restarts, surviving all of the above while keeping well-known speedster and National Sprint Car Hall of Famer, Lance Dewease, in his rearview mirror.
A fast closing Danny Dietrich, who advanced four spots, finished third on Friday night, followed by defending All Star Circuit of Champions champion, Tyler Courtney, and Bloomsburg Fair Raceway winner, Anthony Macri.
“We had a really good car all night. I could pretty much move around to wherever I wanted to, especially down in one and two where I could run the top and the bottom,” Brent Marks expressed, ace of the M&M Painting and Construction/BAPS Auto Paint and Supply/No. 19 sprint car. “I started to feel the top go away when I was racing in traffic, and after that last restart, I felt like I needed to start running the bottom. One thing about Lance, I know where he’s going to be around this place. To be able to beat a guy who is so strong here is pretty special.
“Just hats off to this whole team,” Marks continued. “We had a rough last few days with losing a race at Bridgeport due to a parts failure, and fighting gremlins all night last night at Bloomsburg…the guys just refuse to give up and continue to give me a great car. And here we are tonight.”
“Brent was definitely the class of the field tonight,” Lance Dewease said of Brent Marks. “We weren’t very good there and I tried a lot of different lines. We just decided to duck in behind him and hope to get lucky in traffic. He’s becoming a really good racer and for sure one of the fastest in the country.”
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The Tezos All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1 will conclude their first Central Pennsylvania sweep of the 2022 season with a visit to the “Speed Palace” at Port Royal Speedway on Saturday, April 23. The Keith Kauffman Classic, honoring National Sprint Car Hall of Famer and 13-time Port Royal Speedway track champion, Keith Kauffman, will be the main attraction headlined with a $10,000-to-win main event – the first of six All Star blockbusters at the Juniata County Fairgrounds this season including the historic Tuscarora 50 in September.ontingency Awards/Results: Williams Grove Speedway | April 22, 2022:
Event: Tommy Hinnershitz Classic | $6,000
Kistler Racing Products Pill Draw | Entries: 41
Nunzi’s Advertising Hot Laps: Brent Marks | 16.872
Dixie Vodka Fast Qualifier: Anthony Macri | 16.902
Hunt Brothers Pizza Heat #1 Winner: Danny Dietrich
Competition Suspension Inc Heat #2 Winner: Brent Marks
All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads Heat #3 Winner: Dylan Norris
Mobil 1 Heat #4 Winner: Ryan Smith
Kistler Racing Products Heat #5 Winner: Parker Price-Miller
Elliott’s Custom Trailers and Carts Dash Winner: Brent Marks
Classic Ink USA B-Main Winner: Justin Peck
Rayce Rudeen Foundation First Non-Transfer: Aaron Bollinger
Tezos A-Main Winner: Brent Marks
Hercules Tires A-Main Hard Charger: Lucas Wolfe (+12)
Carquest Perseverance Award: Cap Henry
Qualifying
Group (A)
7BC-Tyler Courtney, 17.075; 2. 48-Danny Dietrich, 17.124; 3. 13-Justin Peck, 17.175; 4. 10-Zeb Wise, 17.226; 5. 9K-Kevin Thomas Jr., 17.569; 6. 4-Cap Henry, 17.636; 7. 17-Steve Buckwalter, 17.675; 8. 12-Brent Shearer, 18.087; 9. 19R-Matt Campbell, NT
Group (B)
69K-Lance Dewease, 16.939; 2. 19M-Brent Marks, 17.086; 3. 99M-Kyle Moody, 17.374; 4. 39-Chase Dietz, 17.413; 5. 19-Chris Windom, 17.460; 6. 28-Tim Shaffer, 17.478; 7. 7-Scott Bogucki, 17.685; 8. 33-Riley Emig, NT
Group (C)
11T-TJ Stutts, 17.178; 2. 67-Justin Whittall, 17.255; 3. 44-Dylan Norris, 17.278; 4. 1X-Chad Trout, 17.330; 5. 55K-Robbie Kendall, 17.355; 6. 8-Freddie Rahmer, 17.423; 7. 5W-Lucas Wolfe, 17.509; 8. 21-Dominic Scelzi, 17.795
Group (D)
91-Kyle Reinhardt, 17.124; 2. 6-Ryan Smith, 17.544; 3. 98-Jared Esh, 17.557; 4. 26-Cory Eliason, 17.575; 5. 23-Pat Cannon, 17.617; 6. 19W-Troy Wagaman Jr., 17.634; 7. 27-Devon Borden, 17.664; 8. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg, 17.768
Group (E)
39M-Anthony Macri, 16.902; 2. 11-Parker Price Miller, 17.225; 3. 5-Dylan Cisney, 17.303; 4. 18-Gio Scelzi, 17.309; 5. 1W-Aaron Bollinger, 17.521; 6. 17B-Bill Balog, 17.629; 7. O7-Bradley Howard, 17.676; 8. 27S-Alan Krimes, 18.169
Heat 1 (8 Laps) – Top 4 Transfer
48-Danny Dietrich [1]; 2. 10-Zeb Wise [3]; 3. 7BC-Tyler Courtney [4]; 4. 4-Cap Henry [6]; 5. 13-Justin Peck [2]; 6. 17-Steve Buckwalter [7]; 7. 9K-Kevin Thomas Jr. [5]; 8. 12-Brent Shearer [8]
Heat 2 (8 Laps) – Top 4 Transfer
19M-Brent Marks [1]; 2. 99M-Kyle Moody [2]; 3. 69K-Lance Dewease [4]; 4. 28-Tim Shaffer [6]; 5. 39-Chase Dietz [3]; 6. 19-Chris Windom [5]; 7. 7-Scott Bogucki [7]; 8. 33-Riley Emig [8]
Heat 3 (8 Laps) – Top 4 Transfer
44-Dylan Norris [2]; 2. 67-Justin Whittall [1]; 3. 11T-TJ Stutts [4]; 4. 8-Freddie Rahmer [6]; 5. 1X-Chad Trout [3]; 6. 55K-Robbie Kendall [5]; 7. 5W-Lucas Wolfe [7]; 8. 21-Dominic Scelzi [8]
Heat 4 (8 Laps) – Top 4 Transfer
6-Ryan Smith [1]; 2. 98-Jared Esh [2]; 3. 26-Cory Eliason [3]; 4. 91-Kyle Reinhardt [4]; 5. 27-Devon Borden [7]; 6. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg [8]; 7. 23-Pat Cannon [5]; 8. 19W-Troy Wagaman Jr. [6]
Heat 5 (8 Laps) – Top 4 Transfer
11-Parker Price Miller [1]; 2. 18-Gio Scelzi [3]; 3. 39M-Anthony Macri [4]; 4. 17B-Bill Balog [6]; 5. 1W-Aaron Bollinger [5]; 6. O7-Bradley Howard [7]; 7. 27S-Alan Krimes [8]; 8. 5-Dylan Cisney [2]
Dash (6 Laps)
19M-Brent Marks [1]; 2. 69K-Lance Dewease [2]; 3. 11-Parker Price Miller [3]; 4. 7BC-Tyler Courtney [5]; 5. 39M-Anthony Macri [6]; 6. 11T-TJ Stutts [4]; 7. 48-Danny Dietrich [10]; 8. 44-Dylan Norris [7]; 9. 6-Ryan Smith [8]; 10. 91-Kyle Reinhardt [9]
B-main (12 Laps) – Top 4 Transfer
13-Justin Peck [1]; 2. 5-Dylan Cisney [2]; 3. 1X-Chad Trout [3]; 4. 39-Chase Dietz [4]; 5. 1W-Aaron Bollinger [5]; 6. 27-Devon Borden [6]; 7. 55K-Robbie Kendall [7]; 8. 5W-Lucas Wolfe [12]; 9. 17-Steve Buckwalter [9]; 10. 19W-Troy Wagaman Jr. [17]; 11. 19-Chris Windom [8]; 12. 9K-Kevin Thomas Jr. [13]; 13. 12-Brent Shearer [19]; 14. 7-Scott Bogucki [15]; 15. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg [11]; 16. 27S-Alan Krimes [16]; 17. 23-Pat Cannon [14]; 18. O7-Bradley Howard [10]; 19. 21-Dominic Scelzi [18]
A-main (30 Laps)
19M-Brent Marks [1]; 2. 69K-Lance Dewease [2]; 3. 48-Danny Dietrich [7]; 4. 7BC-Tyler Courtney [4]; 5. 39M-Anthony Macri [5]; 6. 11-Parker Price Miller [3]; 7. 67-Justin Whittall [12]; 8. 44-Dylan Norris [8]; 9. 11T-TJ Stutts [6]; 10. 91-Kyle Reinhardt [10]; 11. 18-Gio Scelzi [13]; 12. 10-Zeb Wise [11]; 13. 6-Ryan Smith [9]; 14. 5W-Lucas Wolfe [26]; 15. 13-Justin Peck [21]; 16. 4-Cap Henry [20]; 17. 39-Chase Dietz [23]; 18. 17B-Bill Balog [19]; 19. 28-Tim Shaffer [18]; 20. O7-Bradley Howard [24]; 21. 99M-Kyle Moody [14]; 22. 5-Dylan Cisney [22]; 23. 26-Cory Eliason [16]; 24. 98-Jared Esh [15]; 25. 8-Freddie Rahmer [17]; 26. 1X-Chad Trout [25]; 27. 12-Brent Shearer [27] Lap Leaders: Brent Marks (1-30)