Clauson-Marshall Racing Adds Powerful Lineup to BC39 Entry List
August 09, 2019 | By Paul Kelly, Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The four-driver lineup for Clauson-Marshall Racing, the winningest team this season in USAC Midget National Championship this season, leads the latest entry update for the Driven2SaveLives BC39 Powered by NOS Energy Drink on Sept. 4-5 at The Dirt Track at IMS.
Clauson-Marshall Racing has entered its four full-time USAC competitors: Tyler Courtney, Chris Windom, Zeb Wise and Andrew Layser. The team is co-owned by Tim Clauson, the father of late USAC champion and Indianapolis 500 veteran Bryan Clauson, the namesake of the showcase USAC event on the quarter-mile dirt oval at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Defending USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car champion Courtney, from Indianapolis, leads all drivers with six USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget feature wins in 2019 and has led the standings since the start of the season. His CMR teammate Windom, from Canton, Illinois, is second in the standings. Windom, the 2016 Silver Crown and 2017 National Sprint Car champion, has won his first two National Midget races over the past two months.
Wise, a 16-year-old from Angola, Indiana, is fourth in the standings with two recent victories during Pennsylvania Midget Week. He won the Stoops Pursuit race on opening night of the BC39 last year. Layser, from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, is in his first year for CMR and tops the series’ rookie points as he seeks to make his first BC39 feature start.
Michael Pickens, the winningest driver from New Zealand in the USAC National Midget history with four series wins, will drive for the RMS LLC team at the BC39 alongside teammate Thomas Meseraull, a nine-time winner in the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car series.
David Prickett, the 2012 USAC Western States Dirt Midget champ, will drive for Neverlift Motorsports in his second BC39 appearance. Trey Osborne, a veteran of Kenyon Midget racing and the Little 500 at Anderson (Indiana) Speedway, will drive the famed yellow No. 61 for Mel Kenyon, USAC’s winningest National Midget driver with 111 career victories and a four-time top-five finisher at the Indianapolis 500 between 1966 and 1973.
Those drivers join a talented list of entries, which also includes 2017 USAC National Midget champion Spencer Bayston, 2018 Jason Leffler Memorial winner Tyler Thomas, USAC National Sprint Car feature winners Brent Beauchamp and Matt Westfall, plus past USAC Western States Midget champion Shannon McQueen, among many others.
More entries are expected to be filed leading into the second annual Driven2SaveLives BC39 Powered by NOS Energy Drink. Tickets are on sale at www.ims.com.
On-track action begins Wednesday, Sept. 4 at the quarter-mile Dirt Track at IMS. Public gates open at 3 p.m., with cars on track for practice at 4 p.m., followed by opening ceremonies at 7 p.m. Heat races and the Stoops Pursuit race will conclude the night’s racing action.
Public gates will open at 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5 for the second and final night of action. Cars will be on track for practice at 4 p.m., with qualifying races at 5 p.m. Opening ceremonies are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. and followed by the main feature events, starting with multiple D-Mains and C-Mains, the semi-feature and the 39-lap main event.
BC39 ENTRY LIST (38 cars as of Aug. 7)
1NZ MICHAEL PICKENS/Auckland, NZ (RMS LLC)
1ST TBA (Daryl Saucier)
2 RYAN HALL/Midlothian, TX (Mark Bush)
2x MATT LINDER/Hoschton, GA (Mark Bush)
3N JAKE NEUMAN/New Berlin, IL (Jim Neuman)
7BC TYLER COURTNEY/Indianapolis, IN (Clauson/Marshall Racing)
7u KYLE JONES/Kennedale, TX (Trifecta Motorsports)
7x THOMAS MESERAULL/San Jose, CA (RMS LLC)
8 RANDI PANKRATZ/Atascadero, CA (Wally Pankratz)
9 CHRIS BAUE/Indianapolis, IN (Chris Baue)
11L AARON LEFFEL/Springfield, OH (Chuck Taylor)
11T TBA (Chuck Taylor)
14H TBA (Mike Dickerson)
15J JEFF WIMMENAUER/Indianapolis, IN (Jeff Wimmenauer)
15s SHANNON McQUEEN/Bakersfield, CA (Broc Garrett)
15x CARSON GARRETT/Littleton, CO (Broc Garrett)
17 JUSTIN PECK/Monrovia, IN (Bus Racing Team)
17BC CHRIS WINDOM/Canton, IL (Clauson/Marshall Racing)
19 SPENCER BAYSTON/Lebanon, IN (Brodie Hayward)
20 CODY WEISENSEL/Sun Prairie, WI (Kevin Weisensel)
21D JUSTIN DICKERSON/Pittsboro, IN (Mike Dickerson)
22Q DAVID PRICKETT/Fresno, CA (Neverlift Motorsports)
28 ACE McCARTHY/Tahlequah, OK (Jim Neuman)
39BC ZEB WISE/Angola, IN (Clauson/Marshall Racing)
41 OLIVER AKARD/Ft. Myers, FL (Dan Akard)
43 BRENT BEAUCHAMP/Avon, IN (Kevin Arnold)
47BC ANDREW LAYSER/Collegeville, PA (Clauson/Marshall Racing)
50 TONY DiMATTIA/Malvern, PA (Tony DiMattia Motorsports)
54 MATT WESTFALL/Pleasant Hill, OH (Steve Bordner)
56A COLTEN COTTLE/Kansas, IL (Travis Young)
57A TBA (Bill Ecker)
57D DANIEL ROBINSON/Ewing, IL (McCreery Motorsports)
57K KEVIN STUDLEY/Plainfield, IN (Kevin Studley)
61 TREY OSBORNE/Columbus, Ohio (Mel Kenyon)
71s CODY SWANSON/Norco, CA (Marcie Campbell)
88 TYLER NELSON/Olathe, KS (Tyler Nelson)
91T TYLER THOMAS/Collinsville, OK (Brian Thomas)
97A AUSTIN O’DELL/Rochester, IL (Patrick O’Dell)