1/14/2014
Marcham Excited to Compete Amongst World’s Best at This Week’s Chili Bowl Midget Nationals
Vying to win what is often dubbed the Super Bowl of racing, rising racing star Trey Marcham of Oklahoma will be gunning for the coveted Golden Driller trophy along with over 280 of the best racers from the World at the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals this week.
Manning the Josh Ford Motorsports #73x Pinnacle Energy Services/. Marcham Energy/Best Western Tulsa Airport TCR/Esslinger, Marcham practices on Monday, Jan. 13 and competes in Wednesday, January 13th’s River Spirit Casino Qualifying night.
Trey’s final Midget race of 2013 was at the 73rd Annual Turkey Night Midget Grand Prix where he competed against the best racers in the World in one of the most fabled racing events in the country. After starting at the rear of the field (32nd) after suffering a broken brake hub in the first qualifying race, Marcham worked his way from a provisional starting position into the top 15 before retiring as the engine began overheating with five laps remaining. Due to the engine woes, McQueen Racing was unable to field an entry for Marcham at the Chili Bowl, and team owner Shannon McQueen assisted Trey in landing another entry, the JFM, Inc. entry. The JFM team has numerous accolades, including being a former Chili Bowl car owner winner and also being the winning car owner of Turkey night with driver Dave Darland.
“I’m really excited that I have the opportunity to participate in such a prestigious event and to race against some of the best drivers from all across the World. I can’t thank Josh Ford Motorsports and Shannon McQueen Racing and all of my sponsors enough for making this opportunity become reality,” says Marcham.
Among the nearly 300 entries in the prestigious event include racing stars from an array of disciplines, including NASCAR star Kasey Kahne, numerous NASCAR Nationwide and Camping World Truck series veterans and racers from numerous types of racing, Marcham will be competing against the best of racing’s veterans and rising young stars, all on a tight, quarter-mile bullring inside the QuikTrip Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
During his initial Midget campaign in 2013, Marcham battled many of the best Midget racers in the West en route to claiming the USAC-Western States Midget Rookie-of-the-Year laurels, despite running a partial schedule.
Driving the McQueen Racing #37 Spike/Esslinger by Duane McQueen,
Marcham impressed veteran peers all season, passing many cars with poise and patience beyond his years. Marcham claimed five Top 10s, three Top fives, one main event win and one Heat race win in his debut Midget season and claimed ninth in the USAC-WS overall Midget standings and tenth in the USAC-WS Dirt standings.
Marcham’s first Midget win came on August 10, 2013 at the 3/8-mile Petaluma Speedway in Bay Cities Racing Association Midget action, in which he dominated the field in a decisive green-to-checkered main event in which he moved from sixth to first by the second lap and claimed the win by an entire straightaway in a record seven minutes, 38 seconds, in his first-ever appearance at the track.
Showing versatility, in addition to his success on Dirt bullrings in open-wheel action in the Midget, Marcham performed a clean sweep on pavement, sweeping a pair of Late Model features at Myrtle Beach Speedway in July 2013 where he scored his first and second career Late Model Stock Car wins.
A senior Engineering student at Oklahoma University, with over 11 years of experience in Micro Sprints, Ford Focus Midgets, 360 Non-Wing Sprint Cars and asphalt Late Models, Marcham has shown amazing poise and talent en route to amassing six Championships at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Newcastle, Oklahoma, as well as having claimed both the A-Class and Non-wing A-Mains at the Inaugural Donnie Ray Crawford Memorial/Race4Life in Tulsa in 2012. Marcham has compiled several wins and podium finishes in 2013.
Select Coatings, RD Marcham Energy, Inc., Simpson Race Products, Pinnacle Energy Services, Best Western Tulsa Airport, Metals Supermarket Oklahoma City, J & B Digital Graphics, Madden Steel Buildings, and Mud-X support Marcham.
Article Credit: Robert Haugh
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