The BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors will feature a two-night format for USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship competitors on June 30-July 1 at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The Tuesday, June 30 opener concludes with a 30-lap feature. That’s followed by the finale Wednesday, July 1, culminating in a 39-lap main event featuring a $20,039 winner’s purse.
The event honors late USAC champion and three-time Indianapolis 500 starter Bryan Clauson.
The details of the format:
Tuesday, June 30
- Heat race positions will be selected during the heat race draft at 5 p.m. ET.
- Heat races will be held with starting positions based on their selections during the heat race draft. Each heat race is eight laps.
- Points for heat races will be accumulated by finishing position and total number of positions advanced.
- Heat race winners and the top point earners will be locked into Tuesday’s feature. Drivers who are 17th through 48th in points will advance to one of the two semi-features; drivers 49th and lower in points will race in the C-Main.
- The top 16 locked-in drivers will start straight-up based on overall points in the first 16 positions of the feature – rows 1-8.
- The top four finishers from one C-Main (or top two finishers from two C-Mains) will transfer to the tail of the semi-feature(s). Each C-Main is 10 laps. Non-transfers will receive points toward Wednesday’s qualifying race lineups.
- The top four finishers from each of the two semi-features will transfer into the feature. Each semi-feature is 12 laps. Non-transfers will receive points toward Wednesday’s qualifying race lineups.
- The semi-feature transfers will line up in positions 17-24 of the feature lineup, rows 9-12, based on their finishing order in the semi.
- The 30-lap feature pays $5,000 to win. The feature also will pay points toward Wednesday’s qualifying race lineups.
Wednesday, July 1
- Qualifying races will be held and will be lined up based on Tuesday’s heat race and feature points. Each qualifying race is 10 laps.
- The top six (36 total) in heat race points will start inverted in each of their respective qualifying races.
- Points for the qualifying races will be accumulated by finishing position and total number of positions advanced.
- Drivers ranking first through 18th in overall points following the qualifying races will lock into Wednesday’s feature and will start the feature straight-up based off overall points. The driver with the most points will start on the pole. Second-most points will start outside and so forth.
- Drivers ranking 19th through 30th in overall points following the qualifying races will compete in a semi-feature event.
- Drivers ranking 30th or lower in overall points following the qualifying races will compete in one of two C-Main events.
- The top four finishers from each of the two C-Mains will transfer into the semi-feature and will start at the tail of the field according to their C-Main finishing order. Each C-Main event is 12 laps.
- The top six finishers from the semi-feature will transfer to the feature and will start in positions 19-24, rows 10-12. The semi-feature event is 15 laps.
- The 39-lap feature pays $20,039 to win.
Public gates open at 4 p.m. ET Tuesday, with hot laps at 6:30 p.m. and opening ceremonies at 7 p.m. Fans then can enter the track after the 30-lap feature and talk with drivers and see race cars up close.
Championship night of the BC39 is Wednesday, with gates opening at 4 p.m. ET, with a driver autograph session scheduled at that time in the Fan Zone, followed by a public drivers’ meeting at 5 p.m. Hot laps start at 6:30 p.m., with opening ceremonies at 7 p.m.
Tickets are on sale at ims.com/BC39. Spectators must enter IMS via Gate 10 off 30th Street to access The Dirt Track. No entrance will be allowed through Gate 2.
For more spectator information, fans should visit the Plan Ahead site for the BC39.
