Battling with the leaders throughout the race and even taking the lead at times, Oklahoma’s Trey Marcham was looking to duplicate his Midget triumph earlier this year in the McQueen Racing #37 Spike/Esslinger by Duane McQueen. After battling for the lead, Marcham claimed a solid fourth place run in the 30-lap USAC-Western States Midget feature at the 1/3-mile Bakersfield Speedway on Saturday, September 21.
Starting fourth on the grid that included his car owner/teammate Shannon McQueen starting in fifth, Marcham jumped into a multiple-car battle for the lead, passing for the lead twice, but both passes were called back to the unfurling of yellow flags.
Pushing the McQueen entry as hard as he could, Marcham jumped the cushion late in the feature, falling back to finish a strong fourth, another Top five run, his third such in limited Midget starts.
Improving in each start, Trey was third fastest qualifying, his best qualifying run in the Midget to date – and just two tenths off of fast time and only six hundredths behind his veteran teammate McQueen. Marcham started fourth in his Heat race, and claimed third.
Marcham will return to the cockpit of the 350+HP, 900-pound Midget this Saturday, September 28 in USAC-Western States competition in USAC-Western States competition at the 1/5-mile Ventura Raceway.
“I’m excited for the race this weekend at Ventura,” says Marcham, who is practicing for the Virginia is for Racing Lovers 300 Late Model race at Martinsville that will be held Oct. 4-6, then heads home for a day and off to Ventura for the Midget race.
Though competing only a limited USAC-Western States Midget schedule, Marcham is just a few tallies behind the current Rookie-of-the-year leader, and has cracked the Top 10 in the USAC-WS Dirt Midget point standings.
Marcham, a senior Engineering student at Oklahoma University, with experience and wins in Micro Sprints, Ford Focus Midgets, 360 non-wing Sprint Cars and asphalt Late Models is a 6-time point champion and two-time Rookie of the Year at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Recent honors include sweeping two twin late model feature races on July 4, 2013 at Myrtle Beach Speedway, winning the Bay Cities Racing Association (BCRA) Midget race at Petaluma Speedway on August 10, 2013, and winning both the A-Class and Non-wing A Features at the 2012 Inaugural Donnie Ray Crawford Memorial/Race4Life in Tulsa in 2012.
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- Article Date: 9/24/2013 by Robert Haugh