INDIANAPOLIS — The third night of the fifth annual Driven 2 Save Lives BC39 is upon us. Night 1 was canceled, but is being tacked on to the end of tonight’s activity with the Stoops Pursuit Race being ran now after the A-Main tonight is done.

To be a part of the Shootout, the top-10 drivers in points (Logan Seavey, Bryant Wiedeman, Justin Grant, Ryan Timms, Daison Pursley, Jade Avedisian, Jacob Denney, Gavin Miller, Cannon McIntosh and Taylor Reimer) are locked into the event.

Among the next 14 spots, they’ll go Thursday’s and Friday’s heat race winners and qualifying race winners.  Promoters options will start at the rear of the 24-car field.

How the race will work itself is the 24 cars will start by qualifying inversion. There’s (5), 5-lap segments. Each 5 laps will have a caution. Cars that have been passed will exit. Cars that did the passing will stay. That will get you to just one winner to which receives $1500 prize and $100 additional for cars passed.

Past winners: 2018-Zeb Wise, 2019-Kyle Larson, 2020-Not Held, 2021-Kyle Larson, 2022-Dominic Gorden.

Prior to the Pursuit race, will be the normal preliminary race action.

Last night saw Thomas Meseraull take home the $5k bonus by winning the opening prelim night. The podium finishers of Meseraull , Taylor Reimer and Chase McDermond clinch a spot among the 24-car field for Saturday night’s 39-lap A-Main.

Friday night will be a carbon copy of Thursday night to send three more drivers to the A-Main.

This time, there’s 36 new drivers.

Friday night has arguably the most all around USAC talent in the field. Justin Grant who is 3rd in Midget points, 3rd in Silver Crown points and the current Sprint Car points leader is on this night. So is Brady Bacon (2nd in Sprint Car points), the inaugural race winner. Kyle Cummins is fourth in Sprint Car points and here. Current Midget and Silver Crown points leader and reigning Chili Bowl winner and 4-crown sweeper, Logan Seavey, is also on this night.

Grant and Bacon are the only drivers left that have attempted to make all five BC39’s. Grant has finished 7th, 10th, 2nd 4th. Bacon was 1st, 16th, 3rd, 8th.

Seavey is the hottest driver in USAC. 6 wins in his last 14 Midget tries including a top 5 finish in each, to go along with sweeping the 4-crown last weekend in Eldora.

Overall, 4 of the top 5 in Midget points are on this night if you include Ryan Timms (4th in points) and Daison Pursley (5th in points) too. Timms was 6th last year and enters on the heels of a 3-win season. Timms has finished 6th, 1st, 9th, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 11th, 1st, 9th, 8th, 10th, 8th over the last 12 races and in a KKM car. Pursley finished 4th in his lone start here in 2021. He also has just 3 top 5’s this season but has been consistently in the top 10 with 11 of them including 5 in-a-row (9th, 7th, 4th, 6th, 6th).

Gavin Miller (8th in points), a KKM driver that like Denny, is a rookie here. Still, Miller has been solid with 13 top 10 finishes in 19 tries. In fact, he’s finally grasping a Midget now with finishes of 5th, 2nd, 2nd, 10th, 14th, 8th, 4th over the last 7 races.

You also have the active wins leader in Midgets (29), Tanner Thorson on this night. So is Emerson Axsom. The Franklin native is in a KKM car and has been stout this season in a part-time Midget role. He had a stretch during Midget week of finishes of 5th, 2nd, 2nd. .In fact, he has 3 runner-up finishes in only 12 starts this season.

Public gates open on Thursday at 4 p.m. ET with hot laps at 6 p.m. ET, followed by qualifying, opening ceremonies, heat races (8 laps each), the C-Main (10 laps), the Semi-Feature (12 laps), the Feature event (30 laps) that pays $5k to win, then the Stoops Pursuit Race (25 laps).

Points for the heats will be accumulated by finishing position and total number of positions advanced.  Cars will be positioned into qualifying races based on the passing points accumulated in the heats. Total points from the heat races and qualifying races will be added to set the starting lineups for the prelim main events on Thursday and Friday.  The top-16 overall in accumulated points will start straight-up in the first eight rows of Thursday and Friday’s A-Main feature.

Prelim night finishers 4-17 will be slated for one of two semi-features on Saturday night.  Prelim night feature finishers 18-22, plus finishers 7-15 in the semi-feature, will start in Saturday’s C-Main.  Prelim night semi-feature finishers 16th on back will start in Saturday’s D-Main.

All USAC National Midget licensed drivers and entrants will receive 50 appearance points during each night of their participation on Thursday and Friday.