By Robert Haugh
Photo by Michael Grosswendt
Rising racing star Trey Marcham of Oklahoma recently collected the 2013 USAC-Western States Midget Rookie-of-the-Year honor as well Top 10 finishes in the USAC-WS Dirt and overall standings at the 2013 USAC Western “Night of Champions” banquet at the Santa Maria (Calif.) Museum of Flight on Feb. 7.
“Our main goal at the beginning of the season was to get the Rookie of the Year award, so we were really excited to actually pull it off at the end. We had a great year, getting to experience all of the awesome race tracks and scenery in the West coast and to get to come to the awards banquet and bring home all of the hardware we worked so hard for was just the icing on the cake! I can’t wait to come back next year and run all of the tracks that we had to miss and get to race with all the great folks in the series,” stated Marcham.
Held at the museum located at the former Allan Hancock Air Field, the event touted many racing champions and race winners in 2013 on the West Coast, with an array of racing luminaries in attendance.
Marcham battled many of the best Midget racers in the West and the country in 2013 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. In his maiden Midget season, Marcham claimed five top 10s, three top fives, one main event win and one heat race win while claiming ninth in the USAC-WS overall Midget standings and tenth in the USAC-WS Dirt standings.
Marcham thanks McQueen Racing for the opportunity and experience of contending for the Western States rookie crown and looks forward to his 2014 racing slate. Marcham’s 2014 Midget season kicks off on February 28 and March 1 when he will compete in the Copper on Dirt event at Canyon Speedway Park in Peoria, Arizona aboard an always-potent JFM entry.
In addition to his success on dirt bullrings in open-wheel action in the Midget, Marcham showed versatility, performing a clean sweep on pavement, sweeping a pair of Late Model features at Myrtle Beach Speedway in July where he scored his first and second career Late Model Stock Car wins.
Marcham, a senior Engineering student at Oklahoma University, with over 12 years of experience in Micro Sprints, Ford Focus Midgets, 360 Non-Wing Sprint Cars and asphalt Late Models, has shown amazing poise and talent has been seen passing drivers with thousands more laps and experience than he in a Midget. Marcham has amassed 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.
For up to date information on all of Marcham’s race activities, “like” him on Facebook and follow him on Twitter, or visit www.marchamracing.com.
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- Article Date: 2/19/2014 by Robert Haugh