LATEST ON AUG 18-19 EVENT AT INDY DIRT TRACK
2016 USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget champion Tanner Thorson (Minden, Nev.) is among the latest entries for the Aug. 18-19 USAC Driven2SaveLives BC39 Powered by NOS Energy Drink at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Steve Koletar Photo)
BC39 ENTRY LIST SURGES TO 68; WISE, THORSON & KOFOID ARE IN!
By: Richie Murray – USAC Media
Indianapolis, Indiana (August 11, 2021)………Zeb Wise, Tanner Thorson, Buddy Kofoid and more have added their names to the continuously growing entry list for the USAC Driven2SaveLives BC39 Powered By NOS Energy Drink, which has surged to 68 entries for the August 18-19 Midget racing event at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Wise (Angola, Ind.), who’ll wheel the Matt Wood Racing #37 in this year’s event, was victorious in the most recent BC39 held in 2019, making the winning pass seven laps from the finish to win the $15,000 event. He also scored the first midget victory of any kind at The Dirt Track at IMS during the Stoops Pursuit in 2018.
Thorson (Minden, Nev.) and Kofoid (Penngrove, Calif.) lead two of the top teams with the series and both are making their BC39 debuts this year. Thorson, the 2016 USAC National Midget Champion, is one of three Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports entries along USAC Rookies Chase Randall (Waco, Texas) and Hayden Reinbold (Gilbert, Ariz.).
Kofoid, the current USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget point leader, is one of seven entries from the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian MotorsportsTeam, all of whom are BC39 Rookies, with Kofoid being joined by two-time series winner Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.), Bryant Wiedeman (Colby, Kan.), Brenham Crouch (Lubbock, Texas), Kaylee Bryson (Muskogee, Okla.), Taylor Reimer (Bixby, Okla.) and Jonathan Shafer (Ashland, Ohio).
New Zealand Midget Champion Hayden Williams brings an international flair to the event in a BSL Racing machine while versatile wheelman Gary Taylor has filed his entry to compete for car owner Brian Dunlap.
Already previously entered for the BC39 are USAC’s three-time USAC AMSOIL National Sprintcar Champion and 2018 inaugural BC39 winner Brady Bacon (Broken Arrow, Okla.), who will be on hand as will newly-crowned 2021 Indiana Sprint Week champion Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman, Ala.).
Chris Windom (Canton, Ill.), the 2020 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National titleholder, aims to make his third start in the event following a 3rd place finish in 2019. Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) captured the 2018 series crown and will also be eying a third BC39 start after finishing a personal best 5th in 2019. Spencer Bayston (Lebanon, Ind.), the series’ 2017 king, will go after his second start in the event following a 20th place result in 2019.
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