INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - The newest entry into the 2019 Indianapolis 500 is driven to save lives.
Clauson-Marshall Racing unveiled their race car in honor of Bryan Clauson, a three-time Indy 500 starter who died in a dirt track crash in Kansas in 2016. Clauson was an organ donor and his gift saved five other lives.
LIVE: Clauson-Marshall Racing is making an announcement.
Posted by WTHR-TV on Wednesday, February 27, 2019
His mission to help others will live on this May in the number 39 car driven by Pippa Mann.
"For me, it is an absolute honor to be standing here today, not only as a driver of Clauson-Marshall Racing, but representing this cause, representing Driven 2 Save Lives and helping them register more donors than ever before," Mann said.
"It wasn't just on the race track that Bryan Clauson thought big, he thought big in the way he wanted to give back, he was a donor. He had no idea that just that simple decision, that big decision, was going to make such a huge impact on people once Bryan Clauson was no longer here to do all those things we know he loved to do so well," said IMS President Doug Boles.
114,000 people nationwide are in need of a life-saving organ transplant - 1,300 of them are right here in central Indiana. Click here to register to be an organ donor.