PORT ROYAL, Pa. Toting his HANS device and a look of frustration, Brent Marks stormed out of his car and into his massive hauler, through the glass sliding doors in the very back.

He and crew chief Barry Jackson went into debrief, a confidential conversation on what they couldve possibly deployed to fight back and not become the latest victim of a Kyle Larson victory attack.

Honestly, I dont know, Marks said after finishing second to Larson on Saturday in night one of the Bob Weikert Memorial at Port Royal Speedway. We were just as fast. He was just able to work his way around me.

Were really good right now and its a little frustrating.

This is, quite simply, a snippet of the aftermath over these last few weeks in central Pennsylvania.

On the very weekend that happens to honor legendary car owner Weikert, as well as his storied drivers like Doug Wolfgang, Larson and Paul Silva are pressuring teams to evolve, or at least act similarly to what Weikert and Wolfgang did all those years ago.

While the paths are incomparable, the streaks and win percentages are. In 1985, Weikert and Wolfgang won 53 races together in more than 100 races, with some guy named Davey Brown as crew chief.

On Saturday night, with a pair of Weikert trophies in hand, Larson won his 19th race in his past 32 starts. Thats roughly 50 percent versus 59 percent, with Larson as the latter.

Larsons doled plenty of exhilaration and headaches since his first stop in Pennsylvania on June 24, and Marks hasnt been the only one left vexed in this wake.

On Friday at Williams Grove Speedway, Anthony Macri had everything go his way until Larson rushed in like a bat out of hell. Two weeks before that, Larson started his Pennsylvania Speedweek title runaway by blitzing Freddie Rahmer at Grandview, his home track, prompting Rahmers accomplished father to say, Son, you need to match that.

Larson then denied Lance Dewease of win No. 100 at Williams Grove, flipping the script for his first victory at the speedway. He capped it all off by bettering one of the Posses finest in Danny Dietrich by 323 points in the final Pennsylvania Speedweek standings.

I watched Doug Wolfgang come in and changed the way people did things, Fred Rahmer said in a recent phone interview. Now, style wise, it looks to me like Kyle Larson is doing it again.

Weikert, Wolfgang, and Brown forged their place in sprint car racing royalty through unmatched grit and their revolutionary mechanical approach.

Larson, however, is as distant as one could be from having such knowledge.

While Silva and crew toil away at the race car in between on-track moments, Larson sits inside the trailer, on a bench behind one of the black cabinets, hunched over and watching maintenance from afar.

Hes not burdened with the knowledge of what it takes to fix the car if its not right, Fred Rahmer said. He just finds a way to drive it.

In a way, its probably one of the reasons behind this dominant run, that Larson has simply made do with what hes been given.

Wolfgang, according to his mechanic Davey Brown, built everything and anything behind Weikerts race shop walls, often housed with cars that were lighter than most and engines more powerful than any other team around.

We were just ahead of everyone else, Brown said. But Kyle, I wish he wouldve stayed in NASCAR.

Brown laughed, and then carried on with his assessment.

Hes hard to beat, he said. Hes a heck of a driver. Theres nobody that cant be beat, but well have to try a little harder. Everyones trying harder to catch him, I guess.

Thirty some years later, after competitors relentlessly chased Brown, Weikert, and Wolfgang, everyone else, including Brown in a way, is now chasing Larson and Silva in an age where sprint cars seem so equal to one another.

Its pretty impressive when in a time people say, You cant have a dominant car, Fred Rahmer said. Yeah, well somebody tell him. Hopefully a group of us will learn from it.

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