PORT ROYAL, Pa. — Brent Marks won Saturday night’s Greg Hodnett Classic, which opened the Bob Weikert Memorial weekend at Port Royal Speedway.
The 25-lap A-main event saw Brent Marks start alongside Anthony Macri on the front row against a stout field of PA Posse and High Limit Racing competitors with Marks jumping out to the early advantage.
Over the opening 15 laps, the only challenge for the driver from Myerstown Pennsylvania would be the lapped traffic eating up the real estate in front of him as he would be out to a comfortable advantage over Macri.
With 10 laps to go however, Macri would close the gap and peak to the inside of Marks for the race lead with Justin Peck looming not far behind in third.
Macri would look to the inside of Marks repeated over the next 3 laps but would be unable to make the pass before a caution would come out for a spinning car with 7 laps remaining.
The restart would see Marks open his advantage back up in bit now back in clean air with Justin Peck taking advantage over the gained track position to keep Anthony Macri in his sights for a battle for the runner up spot.
Peck would use the middle side of turns 1 and 2 to build momentum and chase down Macri on the back straightaway making the pass for 2nd and setting his sights on Marks.
A caution would once again reset the field with 2 laps to go for a spinning Lucas Wolfe and that would allow Peck a chance to take a shot for the lead.
However, Marks was too good on the final restart of the race, opening up to a comfortable advantage for the final 2 laps, and picking up his second Greg Hodnett Classic title to go alongside his win from back in 2022.
Peck would finish in the runner up spot and Macri finished third
In wingless sportsman competition for the Hess Iron 30, Steve Wilbur would be the class of the field leading by as many as 6.5 seconds over the rest of the field to pick up the win.
The finish:
Feature (25 laps): 1. 19-Brent Marks[1]; 2. 26-Justin Peck[4]; 3. 39M-Anthony Macri[2]; 4. 69K-Ryan Smith[9]; 5. 23-Chase Dietz[3]; 6. 55W-Logan Wagner[22]; 7. 24-Rico Abreu[5]; 8. 87-Aaron Reutzel[6]; 9. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[11]; 10. 55-Kerry Madsen[8]; 11. 29-Danny Dietrich[16]; 12. 67-Justin Whittall[17]; 13. 27-Troy Wagaman Jr[12]; 14. 8-Lance Dewease[18]; 15. 9-Daison Pursley[7]; 16. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[10]; 17. 5-Brenham Crouch[19]; 18. 21-James McFadden[13]; 19. 22H-Doug Hammaker[26]; 20. 13-Tanner Holmes[27]; 21. 42-Sye Lynch[14]; 22. 1A-Cameron Smith[21]; 23. 9R-Chase Randall[23]; 24. 88-Tanner Thorson[25]; 25. 39-Lucas Wolfe[24]; 26. 71R-Logan Rumsey[15]; 27. 35-Buddy Schweibinz[28]; 28. 66-Ryan Newton[20]
