SALISBURY, N.C. – California’s Landon Brooks has his sights set on the ultimate prize entering this week’s Keith Kunz Motorsports Giveback Classic presented by Toyota Racing Development at Millbridge Speedway.

Brooks will be one of a host of grassroots racers seeking to win Wednesday’s $2,000 Open division feature at the sixth-mile dirt oval. If he can do so, he would also earn the privilege of joining Keith Kunz Motorsports for a dirt-midget event during the upcoming season.

At only 14 years old, Brooks isn’t eligible to take part in the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals in Tulsa, Okla., with KKM – as the minimum age for Chili Bowl participants is 16 – but the young gun is ready to take whatever he can get.

“I just want to put on a good show and get more people to hear my name,” said Brooks. “If I do my best, that’s all any of us can really ask for, but I’d love more than anything to have a shot at the win in the final laps on Wednesday.”

Brooks actually came out to the East Coast a week early, taking part in the points-season finale at Millbridge on Oct. 24 and finishing fourth in the 20-lap A main after timing in ninth-quick and steadily progressing throughout the night.

A former regular at Cycleland Speedway in his home state, Brooks has spent much of the summer and early fall preparing specifically for this event because of what it would mean to win it outright.

“We’ve been testing for this race a lot,” noted Brooks. “We went to Delta for the first time and won that, and we’ve just been testing a lot at Cycleland all year trying to get ready for this race.”

Brooks’ early impression of Millbridge last week brought a smile to his face when he discussed the track at the end of the night.

“I think it’s pretty fun to race here,” he said of the sixth-mile. “I like the cushion a lot, but the bottom’s pretty fun to race too. It’s really fast. You’re going into the corners with a lot more speed than we do at Cycleland, you have a lot more momentum and it’s a lot scarier all around.

“It should make for some great racing come Wednesday night.”

As young as he is, Brooks never anticipated that he would have the chance to compete on the stage he’s about to find himself on come Wednesday evening.

“I knew there was a possibility (of something big like this), but never dreamed a race like this and us driving in it would be a reality,” he smiled. “Hopefully we can make the most of it.”