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February 28, 2019 | By Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Tim Clauson has experienced the Indianapolis 500 as a father - watching his son, Bryan Clauson, compete in the race three times. This May, he will experience the race in a whole new way. Clauson-Marshall Racing, which fields entries in the USAC National Midget series and won USAC’s Sprint Car title in 2018, will enter the 103rd Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge with Pippa Mann driving the team’s No. 39 Driven2SaveLives Chevrolet. “In 2012, it was a privilege to come to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as a dad to a driver who was competing in his first Indy 500,” said Clauson, who along with longtime short-track supporter Richard Marshall co-owns the team, which races in memory of Bryan Clauson, who died in August 2016 in a racing accident. “Now we are honored to have an entry in ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.’” The team’s Indianapolis 500 entry is just part of a long-term plan Clauson-Marshall Racing has to have USAC standouts follow the steps of Bryan Clauson from dirt tracks to the Indianapolis 500 and NTT IndyCar Series. Clauson Marshall Racing’s short-track drivers, Tyler Courtney, Zeb Wise and Chris Windom, all attended the announcement to support the team’s effort. “Merging our dirt programs with the Indy 500 program is very important to our future,” Tim Clauson said. “If you race, no matter what you’re racing, the dream is to be at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. We got to do that with the dirt track team with the BC39 last year. We’ve talked about (an Indy 500 entry), but now it’s just become a little more real. As everyone talked about it, and worked through the whole process, it all came together.” The team couldn’t have found a better driver to help spread the message of organ donation promoted by title sponsor Driven2SaveLives and the Indiana Donor Network than Mann. The Englishwoman was teammate with Bryan Clauson in his final Indy 500 start in 2016, and the pair intended to reunite as teammates for Indy the following season. Tim Clauson said seeing how Mann handled the disappointment of missing the Indy 500 last year yet still supporting her partners with Indiana Donor Network to honor his son made her the first and only choice - not only as Bryan’s dad, but as a potential team owner. “We wanted someone with experience here,” Tim Clauson said. “We as a family have been through the gauntlet of the motorsports world. Bryan started as a 5-year-old kid racing quarter-midgets, and the first year he qualified for Indy someone said: ‘You’ve lived it all. You’ve done it all in racing.’ And as strange as it sounds, I knew I truly hadn’t lived it all. When we lost Bryan, I had truly lived it all. “It’s important to me to go racing with people who I think have the opportunity to have success in the race car but also the same values that we all have as a family.” Said Mann, who will seek to make her seventh “500” start this May: "I am so thankful for this opportunity to join Clauson-Marshall Racing for their first Indianapolis 500. This is more than just a car entry to me, and the journey has been an emotional one. Carrying the No. 39 and the Driven2SaveLives campaign on my Chevy entry is an honor that I don't take lightly, and I'm grateful to Tim Clauson, Richard Marshall and Stanley Ross for believing in me." The car will carry 39, a number that is synonymous with Bryan Clauson in short-track racing, something not lost on Clauson, either. “We hope we have a great experience with this thing and can grow it into something like Bryan did in 2012 and come here as a USAC guy,” Clauson said. “To think for a second that Bryan doesn’t have his hands all over this would be disingenuous. “Someone brought to my attention that it’s been 39 years since a USAC National Sprint Car championship team made the field for the Indy 500. The 39 registers there. It’s Bryan telling us the time is right.”