May 4, 2024 | By Brian Walker, High Limit Racing PR

Sweet tops High Limit weekend opener at Lakeside

KANSAS CITY,, Kansas — The stars were out in full force as Shane Stewart's Heartland of America Showdown opened on Friday night at Kansas City's Lakeside Speedway with 39 of the nation's best beginning their quest for a $50,000 payday.

Altoona, Iowa's Austin McCarl earned the pole position by winning the FK Rod Ends Dash and was joined by Parker Price-Miller on the front row of the 25-lap A-Main. McCarl led the opening five circuits before it became a three-way battle for the lead and things really heated up.

Third-starting Tyler Courtney officially took the lead on Lap 6 and promptly brought fifth-starting Brad Sweet with him as the duo split McCarl and formed their own fight for control of the field. Officially, "Sunshine" and "The Big Cat" only swapped the lead four times - but there were countless exchanges and slidejobs that won't go down in the box score.

Courtney controlled the next three laps before Sweet edged ahead, then Country cruised back to lead another four before Sweet finally stole it for good on Lap 14. The Kasey Kahne Racing, NAPA Auto Parts #49 ran off into lap traffic and officially won by a 2.818-second margin of victory.

Sweet's third win of the year ties him with Corey Day as the winningest driver with Kubota High Limit Racing in 2024.

Championship leader Tyler Courtney claimed his eighth podium win the opening 11 races as the Clauson-Marshall Racing, NOS Energy Drink #7BC finished P2 behind Sweet.

Kyle Larson began his double duty weekend with a strong 12th-to-3rd bid in Paul Silva's #57 - his first podium with Kubota High Limit Racing since winning the season opener. He'll Qualify his Hendrick Motorsports #5 at Kansas Speedway tomorrow, then haul back to Lakeside Speedway to chase a $50,000 win.

Brent Marks kept his streak alive with his 11th top-10 in the 11th race of the year, finishing 4th aboard the Murray-Marks Motorsports #19. Marks, along with Sweet, Courtney and Larson, is locked-in for Saturday's Heat Races as a top-four preliminary finisher.

Rounding out the top-10 at Lakeside was Austin McCarl, Parker Price-Miller, Sam Hafertepe Jr, Spencer Bayston from 23rd, Rico Abreu, and Kasey Kahne.


THE ALL-IN NOTEBOOK (5/3/24)
Lakeside Speedway (Kansas City, KS)

Capitol Custom Trailers QuickTime - Tyler Courtney (14.738 seconds)
TJ Forged Heat One Winner - Kaleb Johnson
DMI Heat Two Winner - Austin McCarl
BR Motorsports Heat Three Winner - Joe B. Miller
Winters Performance Heat Four Winner - Brad Sweet
FK Rod Ends Dash Winner - Austin McCarl
B-Main Winner - Chris Windom
Jake's Golf Carts Fastest Lap Award - Tyler Courtney (14.866 seconds)
Hard Charger - Spencer Bayston +15, 23rd-to-8th
Lap Leaders - McCarl 1-5; Courtney 6-8; Sweet 9; Courtney 10-13; Sweet 14-25


Kubota A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 49-Brad Sweet[5]; 2. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[3]; 3. 57-Kyle Larson[12]; 4. 19-Brent Marks[7]; 5. 88A-Austin McCarl[1]; 6. 9P-Parker Price Miller[2]; 7. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[9]; 8. 5-Spencer Bayston[23]; 9. 24-Rico Abreu[11]; 10. 9-Kasey Kahne[6]; 11. 51B-Joe B Miller[8]; 12. 1A-Jacob Allen[14]; 13. 14-Corey Day[17]; 14. 21-Brian Brown[19]; 15. 13-Justin Peck[18]; 16. 5T-Ryan Timms[24]; 17. 88-Tanner Thorson[13]; 18. 26-Zeb Wise[15]; 19. 83-James McFadden[10]; 20. 55-Chris Windom[21]; 21. 1-Brenham Crouch[25]; 22. 12X-Paul Nienhiser[20]; 23. 5B-Karter Sarff[22]; 24. 22K-Kaleb Johnson[4]; 25. 19H-Hunter Schuerenberg[16]

B Feature (12 Laps): 1. 55-Chris Windom[1]; 2. 5B-Karter Sarff[2]; 3. 5-Spencer Bayston[5]; 4. 5T-Ryan Timms[3]; 5. 17JR-Ricky Stenhouse Jr[9]; 6. 27B-Jake Bubak[8]; 7. 8-Cory Eliason[10]; 8. 52-Blake Hahn[11]; 9. 1-Brenham Crouch[6]; 10. J2-John Carney II[17]; 11. 45X-Jace Park[15]; 12. 44-Chris Martin[18]; 13. 95-Tyler Drueke[12]; 14. 36-Jason Martin[16]; 15. 97-Scotty Milan[13]; 16. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[14]; 17. 74-Xavier Doney[19]; 18. 55V-Kerry Madsen[4]; 19. 10-Scott Bogucki[7]

FK Rod Ends Dash (7 Laps): 1. 88A-Austin McCarl[1]; 2. 9P-Parker Price Miller[2]; 3. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[7]; 4. 22K-Kaleb Johnson[3]; 5. 49-Brad Sweet[6]; 6. 9-Kasey Kahne[4]; 7. 19-Brent Marks[8]; 8. 51B-Joe B Miller[5]

TJ Forged Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 22K-Kaleb Johnson[2]; 2. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[1]; 3. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[4]; 4. 88-Tanner Thorson[3]; 5. 14-Corey Day[7]; 6. 5T-Ryan Timms[5]; 7. 10-Scott Bogucki[9]; 8. 17JR-Ricky Stenhouse Jr[8]; 9. 97-Scotty Milan[6]; 10. J2-John Carney II[10]

DMI Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 88A-Austin McCarl[1]; 2. 9P-Parker Price Miller[2]; 3. 24-Rico Abreu[3]; 4. 26-Zeb Wise[5]; 5. 21-Brian Brown[6]; 6. 5-Spencer Bayston[8]; 7. 55-Chris Windom[4]; 8. 52-Blake Hahn[7]; 9. 45X-Jace Park[9]; 10. 74-Xavier Doney[10]

BR Motorsports Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 51B-Joe B Miller[1]; 2. 83-James McFadden[2]; 3. 9-Kasey Kahne[4]; 4. 19H-Hunter Schuerenberg[5]; 5. 12X-Paul Nienhiser[3]; 6. 55V-Kerry Madsen[6]; 7. 1-Brenham Crouch[7]; 8. 8-Cory Eliason[8]; 9. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[9]; 10. 44-Chris Martin[10]

Winters Performance Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 49-Brad Sweet[1]; 2. 57-Kyle Larson[6]; 3. 1A-Jacob Allen[2]; 4. 13-Justin Peck[5]; 5. 19-Brent Marks[4]; 6. 5B-Karter Sarff[3]; 7. 27B-Jake Bubak[7]; 8. 95-Tyler Drueke[9]; 9. 36-Jason Martin[8]

Capital Custom Trailers Qualifying A: 1. 7BC-Tyler Courtney, 00:14.738[19]; 2. 55-Chris Windom, 00:14.811[1]; 3. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 00:14.900[8]; 4. 88A-Austin McCarl, 00:14.908[4]; 5. 22K-Kaleb Johnson, 00:14.909[9]; 6. 9P-Parker Price Miller, 00:14.980[11]; 7. 88-Tanner Thorson, 00:14.998[6]; 8. 24-Rico Abreu, 00:15.068[20]; 9. 5T-Ryan Timms, 00:15.078[16]; 10. 26-Zeb Wise, 00:15.084[15]; 11. 97-Scotty Milan, 00:15.143[2]; 12. 21-Brian Brown, 00:15.146[17]; 13. 14-Corey Day, 00:15.165[14]; 14. 52-Blake Hahn, 00:15.188[5]; 15. 17JR-Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 00:15.201[10]; 16. 5-Spencer Bayston, 00:15.203[18]; 17. 10-Scott Bogucki, 00:15.231[13]; 18. 45X-Jace Park, 00:15.266[7]; 19. J2-John Carney II, 00:15.301[3]; 20. 74-Xavier Doney, 00:15.892[12]

Capital Custom Trailers Qualifying B: 1. 9-Kasey Kahne, 00:15.174[2]; 2. 19-Brent Marks, 00:15.283[18]; 3. 51B-Joe B Miller, 00:15.327[1]; 4. 49-Brad Sweet, 00:15.354[5]; 5. 83-James McFadden, 00:15.380[14]; 6. 1A-Jacob Allen, 00:15.406[8]; 7. 12X-Paul Nienhiser, 00:15.458[4]; 8. 5B-Karter Sarff, 00:15.572[7]; 9. 19H-Hunter Schuerenberg, 00:15.601[17]; 10. 13-Justin Peck, 00:15.613[16]; 11. 55V-Kerry Madsen, 00:15.615[12]; 12. 57-Kyle Larson, 00:15.617[15]; 13. 1-Brenham Crouch, 00:15.640[11]; 14. 27B-Jake Bubak, 00:15.669[6]; 15. 8-Cory Eliason, 00:15.706[13]; 16. 36-Jason Martin, 00:15.802[10]; 17. 3-Ayrton Gennetten, 00:15.924[9]; 18. 95-Tyler Drueke, 00:16.020[3]; 19. 44-Chris Martin, 00:16.142[19]


HIGH LIMIT SERIES AS OF 5/3/2024

Pos Competitor Points
1 Tyler Courtney 751
2 Brad Sweet 739
3 Brent Marks 694
4 Corey Day 682
5 Spencer Bayston 612
6 Jacob Allen 586
7 Rico Abreu 586
8 Parker Price Miller 567
9 Justin Peck 529
10 Zeb Wise 525


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DAVID ISAACS EDGES DON MARRS IN VINTAGE CAR THRILLER AT LAKESIDE SPEEDWAY

By Rick Staley

KANSAS CITY, Kans. --Special thanks to Justin Lawson for the moving invocation and Kyndal Romero for the outstanding performance of our National Anthem!
  Being the support class for High Limit Sprint Cars, the pressure is on to put on a stellar performance and Vintage would do just that on this night of competition.  Heavy hitters would start throughout the field with heat race winners #00K Don Marrs, #3 Eddy Neil and #54 Larry Waters putting on a show with last lap passes and photo finishes. 

Feature time would see a hard-fought battle with Marrs and #66 David Isaacs battling both high and low for position. Isaacs would lead and then Marrs would charge back by with hard charger Waters running down the leaders. Jim Thorne #113 and Chad Eickleberry #09 would duel to the checkers with all twenty competitors earning a salute from the crowd. Laps would wind down, but the action never ceased as Marrs appeared to have the upper hand as lap traffic came into play. Isaacs, being the veteran driver he is, would use the traffic to perfection and challenge Marrs in the closing laps.

As they came to the checkers Isaacs and Marrs would race side by side and wheel to wheel with Isaacs taking the thriller of a race by .0009 of a second over Marrs at the line.  Isaacs would celebrate in Victory Lane as Marrs would have to settle for second.  The capacity crowd would be on their feet and show their appreciation for the great performance. Big mover of the race Waters would race his way to third with Thorne fourth and Eickleberry rounding out the night’s top five.


VINTAGE FULL BODY STOCK CARS

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 66-David Isaacs[4]; 2. 00K-Don Marrs[6]; 3. 54-Larry Waters[13]; 4. 113-Jim Thorne[5]; 5. 09-Chad Eickleberry[10]; 6. 88-Beth Martin[2]; 7. 58-John Martin[8]; 8. 9D-Bryant Moyer[7]; 9. 60-Don Marrant[18]; 10. 35-BILL BERENS[11]; 11. 3-Eddie Neil[9]; 12. 8X-Gary Proskocil[14]; 13. 14-Mickie Cook[1]; 14. 42-Rob Brash[16]; 15. (DNF) 6-Damon Clevenger[17]; 16. (DNF) 74-Rodney Ashworth[3]; 17. (DNS) 1-Angela Ashworth; 18. (DNS) 2D-Brandon Jordan; 19. (DNS) 71-Mike Lawless; 20. (DNS) 8-Dan Schmidt

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 00K-Don Marrs[4]; 2. 113-Jim Thorne[3]; 3. 9D-Bryant Moyer[6]; 4. (DNF) 66-David Isaacs[2]; 5. (DNF) 88-Beth Martin[1]; 6. (DNF) 6-Damon Clevenger[7]; 7. (DNF) 2D-Brandon Jordan[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 3-Eddie Neil[2]; 2. 09-Chad Eickleberry[3]; 3. 35-BILL BERENS[4]; 4. 58-John Martin[1]; 5. 8X-Gary Proskocil[5]; 6. (DNF) 60-Don Marrant[6]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 54-Larry Waters[4]; 2. 74-Rodney Ashworth[3]; 3. 8-Dan Schmidt[6]; 4. 14-Mickie Cook[1]; 5. 42-Rob Brash[5]; 6. 71-Mike Lawless[2]; 7. 1-Angela Ashworth[7]