August 26, 2025 | By Brian Walker, High Limit Racing PR

Brent Marks stands tall at Oregon's Douglas County Dirtrack

ROSEBURG, Ore.—Through three years on the World of Outlaws tour from 2017-19 and two seasons with Kubota High Limit Racing in 2024-25, Brent Marks of Myerstown, Pennsylvania has seen his fair share of racing on the west coast; and his thoughts on it were no secret.

That was until 2025 rolled around and something flipped for the Murray-Marks Motorsports #19 team, almost as if it were a light switch. To start the year, they rattled off a top-10 at Las Vegas, a podium in Bakersfield, a top-five in Perris, and more top-10s in Arizona. That set the tone for a summer surge out west.

A preliminary podium and lock-in performance at the Gold Cup Race of Champions sent Brent and his boys trucking to the Pacific Northwest with lots of confidence, and it all finally paid off on Monday night at The Douglas County Dirtrack in Roseburg, Oregon.

A third-place effort in Capitol Renegade Qualifying led to a BR Motorsports Heat 3 transfer and subsequent FK Rod Ends Dash win. The #19 lost the lead on the initial start of the 35-lap Feature and trailed Justin Sanders for the opening six circuits.

An early dose of lap traffic allowed Marks to pounce on Sanders' #87 and take command of the lead on Lap 7. From there, the east coast ace hammered the west coast curb and survived a pair of restarts and then more lap traffic to win in the Western United States for the first time in his life.

The $12,000 score in the Showdown on the River presented by Seven Feathers Casino marked the third trip to Whiskey Myers Victory Lane this year for Brent Marks and his sixth-career win with Kubota High Limit Racing. It snapped a 15-race dry spell for the team, their first win since Port Royal Speedway in May.

Tanner Thorson continues to knock, beat, and pound on the door of his first-career Kubota High Limit Racing victory - driving from fifth-to-second, even with wing issues on Monday night. It's his fourth runner-up of the year with the series and moves the Rod Gross Motorsports #88 up to sixth in the championship standings.

After qualifying dead last (27th of 27 cars), Corey Day did what Corey Day does and put on a thrilling charge in the 35-lap Feature. The reigning Gold Cup Race of Champions winner drove the Jason Meyers Racing #14 all the way from 18th-to-3rd to round out the podium at Douglas County.

Closing the top-five was two championship contenders with Giovanni Scelzi and the Clauson-Marshall Racing #7BC in fourth, followed by Brad Sweet and the Kasey Kahne Racing #49 in fifth.

Rounding out the top-10 on Monday was James McFadden, Rico Abreu, Justin Sanders, Cory Eliason, and Daison Pursley.


THE ALL-IN NOTEBOOK (8/25/25)
Douglas County Dirtrack (Roseburg, OR)

Dirt Draft Fastest in Hot Laps - Justin Sanders (12.394)
Capitol Renegade QuickTime - Tanner Thorson (12.252)
TJ Forged Heat One Winner - Max Mittry
DMI Heat Two Winner - Giovanni Scelzi
BR Motorsports Heat Three Winner - Blaine Cory
FK Rod Ends Dash Winner - Brent Marks
Winters Performance B-Main Winner - Justin Peck
Jake's Golf Carts Fastest Lap Award - Justin Sanders (12.772)
Rod End Supply Hard Charger - Corey Day +15 (18th-to-3rd)
Lap Leaders - Justin Sanders 1-6, Brent Marks 7-35


Kubota A Feature (35 Laps): 1. 19-Brent Marks[1]; 2. 88-Tanner Thorson[5]; 3. 14-Corey Day[18]; 4. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[4]; 5. 49-Brad Sweet[13]; 6. 21-James McFadden[10]; 7. 24-Rico Abreu[7]; 8. 87-Justin Sanders[2]; 9. 45-Cory Eliason[14]; 10. 13-Daison Pursley[9]; 11. 2XM-Max Mittry[3]; 12. 42-Sye Lynch[12]; 13. 26-Justin Peck[19]; 14. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr[24]; 15. 21L-Landon Brooks[11]; 16. 7-Tyler Thompson[15]; 17. 21P-Robbie Price[8]; 18. 5-Brenham Crouch[20]; 19. 21W-Jake Wheeler[23]; 20. 24D-Danny Sams III[21]; 21. 7O-Colin Mackey[16]; 22. 5K-Blaine Cory[6]; 23. 21S-Jesse Schlotfeldt[17]; 24. 18T-Tanner Holmes[22]

Winters Performance B Feature (12 Laps): 1. 26-Justin Peck[1]; 2. 5-Brenham Crouch[2]; 3. 24D-Danny Sams III[4]; 4. 18T-Tanner Holmes[7]; 5. 21W-Jake Wheeler[3]; 6. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr[5]; 7. 9-Chase Randall[9]; 8. 22K-Kayden Smith[8]; 9. 27C-Camden Robustelli[6]

FK Rod Ends Dash (7 Laps): 1. 19-Brent Marks[2]; 2. 87-Justin Sanders[4]; 3. 2XM-Max Mittry[1]; 4. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[3]; 5. 88-Tanner Thorson[6]; 6. 5K-Blaine Cory[5]

TJ Forged Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 2XM-Max Mittry[1]; 2. 24-Rico Abreu[2]; 3. 88-Tanner Thorson[4]; 4. 21-James McFadden[3]; 5. 49-Brad Sweet[6]; 6. 7O-Colin Mackey[5]; 7. 21W-Jake Wheeler[8]; 8. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr[7]; 9. 22K-Kayden Smith[9]

DMI Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[2]; 2. 87-Justin Sanders[4]; 3. 13-Daison Pursley[1]; 4. 21L-Landon Brooks[3]; 5. 45-Cory Eliason[5]; 6. 21S-Jesse Schlotfeldt[9]; 7. 24D-Danny Sams III[8]; 8. 27C-Camden Robustelli[7]; 9. 5-Brenham Crouch[6]

BR Motorsports Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 5K-Blaine Cory[1]; 2. 21P-Robbie Price[2]; 3. 19-Brent Marks[4]; 4. 42-Sye Lynch[6]; 5. 7-Tyler Thompson[3]; 6. 14-Corey Day[9]; 7. 26-Justin Peck[5]; 8. 18T-Tanner Holmes[7]; 9. 9-Chase Randall[8]

Capital Custom Trailers Qualifying (2 Laps): 1. 88-Tanner Thorson, 00:12.252[13]; 2. 87-Justin Sanders, 00:12.285[17]; 3. 19-Brent Marks, 00:12.319[5]; 4. 2XM-Max Mittry, 00:12.411[1]; 5. 13-Daison Pursley, 00:12.433[16]; 6. 5K-Blaine Cory, 00:12.445[14]; 7. 24-Rico Abreu, 00:12.455[6]; 8. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi, 00:12.463[20]; 9. 21P-Robbie Price, 00:12.490[11]; 10. 21-James McFadden, 00:12.495[21]; 11. 21L-Landon Brooks, 00:12.527[4]; 12. 7-Tyler Thompson, 00:12.531[27]; 13. 7O-Colin Mackey, 00:12.541[18]; 14. 45-Cory Eliason, 00:12.550[26]; 15. 26-Justin Peck, 00:12.566[22]; 16. 49-Brad Sweet, 00:12.581[7]; 17. 5-Brenham Crouch, 00:12.614[2]; 18. 42-Sye Lynch, 00:12.650[12]; 19. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr, 00:12.697[19]; 20. 27C-Camden Robustelli, 00:12.717[10]; 21. 18T-Tanner Holmes, 00:12.721[25]; 22. 21W-Jake Wheeler, 00:12.758[8]; 23. 24D-Danny Sams III, 00:12.761[3]; 24. 9-Chase Randall, 00:12.772[15]; 25. 22K-Kayden Smith, 00:12.798[9]; 26. 21S-Jesse Schlotfeldt, 00:12.853[23]; 27. 14-Corey Day, 00:12.856[24]


NEW 2025 Kubota High Limit Racing Championship Standings (After 33/51 Races):

1  Kasey Kahne Racing #49 (1,807 PTS... -)
2  Ridge & Sons Racing #87 (1,786 PTS...-21)
3  Clauson-Marshall Racing #7BC (1,776 PTS... -31)
4  Rico Abreu Racing #24 (1,732 PTS... -75)
5  Murray-Marks Motorsports #19 (1,701 PTS... -106)
6  Rod Gross Motorsports #88 (1,583 PTS... -224)
7  Rudeen Racing #26 (1,566 PTS... -241)
8  Buch Motorsports #13 (1,358 PTS... -449)
9  Jason Meyers Racing #14 (1,353 PTS... -454)
10  Chase Randall Racing #9R (1,248 PTS... -559)
11  CJB Motorsports #5 (1,224 PTS... -583)
12  Mosites Lynch Racing #42 (1,191 PTS... -616)
13  Randerson Racing #24D (1,155 PTS... -761)

UP NEXT: The west coast swing continues with the richest race in Kubota High Limit Racing history this weekend. Washington's Skagit Speedway hosts the $126,000-to-win Skagit Nationals from Thursday-Saturday, August 28-30. Fans can buy tickets at HighLimitRacing.com.