Race Driver Bryan Clauson, who has raced several times at the Knoxville Raceway in the past two years, died of injuries suffered in a midget race at Belleville, Kansas over the weekend.
Clauson was running in the A-Main of the Belleville Midget Nationals on Saturday and had just taken the lead when he crashed into the guard rail and was hit at high speed by another car. He was airlifted to a Lincoln, Nebraska hospital where he passed away Sunday night. Clauson won the 2014 Chili Bowl Midget Nationals and was a multiple USAC champion. He had qualified for the A-Main of the Knoxville Nationals the last two years and was scheduled to compete this week in the Thursday preliminary qualifier. Clauson was scheduled to run 200 races by the end of 2016 calling it the Circular Insanity Tour. He was 27 years old.