Based on the current entry list, the second BC39 Midget race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Dirt Track isn’t expected to be a letdown.
The current list is 55 strong and includes several NASCAR notables alongside the defending winner. There is no shortage of star-power for the midweek race that kicks-off NASCAR weekend at the world’s most-famous motorsports venue on September 4-5.
Brady Bacon won the inaugural event and will be joined by NASCAR Cup Series winner Kyle Larson, NASCAR Xfinity Series winner Christopher Bell and a host of dirt mainstays that includes Jerry Coons Jr., Dave Darland, Logan Seavey and Tanner Thorson.
Over 13,000 people attended the two-day USAC National Midget Championship event in 2018 on a temporary dirt track constructed inside turn 3 of the historic Indiana speedway. The race will include a unique format that concludes with a 39-lap feature Sept. 6 in honor of noted dirt star Bryan Clauson, who died in 2016 in a Midget crash in Belleville, Kansas.
Bacon will be joined by FMR Racing teammate Jason McDougal. Bacon is a two-time USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car champion and the leader of nine laps en route to his inaugural race victory at Indianapolis in 2018.
Three other series champions will be represented in the Keith Kunz Motorsports stable in Bell, Seavey and Thorson. Larson will also drive for Kunz alongside Tanner Carrick, Jesse Colwell, Holley Hollan and Tucker Klaasmeyer.
Coons and Darland are previous champions from the Petry Motorsports stable, that also includes perennial contender Kevin Thomas Jr., who finished third in the inaugural running at Indianapolis.
Clauson/Marshall Racing has entered their core group of four full-time USAC competitors for the event: Tyler Courtney, Chris Windom, Zeb Wise and Andrew Layser.
Courtney is the defending USAC champion and leads all driver with six feature wins thus far in 2019. His CMR teammate, Chris Windom is second in the standings, having won the 2016 Silver Crown championship and 2017 USAC Sprint Car championship.
Spencer Bayston, the 2017 USAC National Midget champion has entered, along with 2018 Jason Leffler Memorial winner Tyler Thomas, USAC National Sprint Car feature winners Brent Beauchamp and Matt Westfall.
On track action begins on Wednesday, Sept. 4, beginning with the drivers meeting in the IMS Media Room at 2pm. Public gates open at 3 p.m. with cars hitting the track for practice at 4 p.m., followed by opening ceremonies at 7 p.m.
The finale, on Thursday, Sept. 5, will have the public gates opening at 3 p.m. and cars on track for practice at 4 p.m., with qualifying races to follow at 5 p.m. Opening ceremonies are slated for 7:30 p.m. and immediately followed by the main feature events, starting with multiple D-Mains and C-Mains, the semi-feature and the 39-lap main event.
The complete entry list, as it currently stands, can be found below.
BC39 ENTRY LIST (55 cars as of 8/14/2019)
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)
4A JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (RAMS Racing)
4D ROBERT DALBY/Anaheim, CA (Ken Dalby)
5 KEVIN THOMAS, JR./Cullman, AL (Petry Motorsports)
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)
9H EMILIO HOOVER/Broken Arrow, OK (James Hoover)
11L AARON LEFFEL/Springfield, OH (Chuck Taylor)
11T TBA (Chuck Taylor)
14H TBA (Mike Dickerson)
15 DAVE DARLAND/Lincoln, IN (Petry Motorsports)
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)
21 CHRISTOPHER BELL/Norman, OK (Keith Kunz Motorsports/Curb-Agajanian)
21D JUSTIN DICKERSON/Pittsboro, IN (Mike Dickerson)
22Q DAVID PRICKETT/Fresno, CA (Neverlift Motorsports)
25 JERRY COONS, JR./Tucson, AZ (Petry Motorsports)
27 TUCKER KLAASMEYER/Paola, KS (Keith Kunz Motorsports/Curb-Agajanian)
28 ACE McCARTHY/Tahlequah, OK (Jim Neuman)
35 TBA (Petry Motorsports)
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)
67 LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Keith Kunz Motorsports/Curb-Agajanian)
67K HOLLEY HOLLAN/Broken Arrow, OK (Keith Kunz Motorsports/Curb-Agajanian)
71 JESSE COLWELL/Red Bluff, CA (Keith Kunz Motorsports/Curb-Agajanian)
71K TANNER CARRICK/Lincoln, CA (Keith Kunz Motorsports/Curb-Agajanian)
71s CODY SWANSON/Norco, CA (Marcie Campbell)
76E BRADY BACON/Broken Arrow, OK (FMR Racing)
76m JASON McDOUGAL/Broken Arrow, OK (FMR Racing)
88 TYLER NELSON/Olathe, KS (Tyler Nelson)
91T TYLER THOMAS/Collinsville, OK (Brian Thomas)
97 KYLE LARSON/Elk Grove, CA (Keith Kunz Motorsports/Curb-Agajanian)
97A AUSTIN O’DELL/Rochester, IL (Patrick O’Dell)
98 TANNER THORSON/Minden, NV (Keith Kunz Motorsports/Curb-Agajanian)
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