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IndyCar: Pippa Mann tipped to drive for Clauson-Marshall Racing in 2019 Indianapolis 500

By Asher Fair

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - MAY 27: Pippa Mann of Great Britian, driver of the #63 Susan G. Komen Dale Coyne Racing Honda, prepares to drive on Carb Day ahead of the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motorspeedway on May 27, 2016 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - MAY 27: Pippa Mann of Great Britian, driver of the #63 Susan G. Komen Dale Coyne Racing Honda, prepares to drive on Carb Day ahead of the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motorspeedway on May 27, 2016 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) /
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Indianapolis 500 veteran Pippa Mann has been tipped to drive for Clauson-Marshall Racing in this year’s running of IndyCar’s most famous race.

Pippa Mann has competed in the Indianapolis 500 in five of the last six and six of the last IndyCar seasons, and she has attempted to qualify for it in each of the last six and seven of the last eight seasons. She ultimately came up short in her attempt to qualify for the race last year and ended up being one of the two drivers to be bumped from the field.

In Mann’s seven Indy 500 attempts, she has only not driven for Dale Coyne Racing on one occasion. She drove for Conquest Racing in her first Indy 500 start back in 2011. But the 35-year-old Briton is expected to drive for a different team — in fact, a completely new team — in the 103rd running of the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing” this May.

Mann is expected to drive a Chevrolet-powered car for Clauson-Marshall Racing in an attempt to qualify for this year’s running of the 200-lap race around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana.

The team announced on Twitter than an official announcement regarding their entry in this year’s Indy 500 is scheduled to come at 2:00 p.m. ET tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/ClausonMarshall/status/1100084005918121985

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RACER’s Marshall Pruett revealed not only that Mann will likely be the team’s driver in this race but that the team may form a technical alliance with A.J. Foyt Enterprises, which are one of the sport’s four full-time Chevrolet-powered teams.

In her six career Indy 500 starts, Mann has finished the race five times, as she crashed and finished in 30th place in 2013. Her career-high finish in the race is her 17th place finish in 2017. Her career-high starting position in the race is 22nd, which is where she started it in 2014. Excluding her failure to qualify for the 2018 Indy 500, she has improved her result in the race from one year to the next after crashing in the 2013 Indy 500. She finished in 24th in 2014 before finishing in 22nd in 2015, 18th in 2016 and, as referenced above, a career-high 17th in 2017.

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NBC is set to broadcast the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 live from Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This race, which is the sixth race on the 2019 IndyCar schedule, is scheduled to take place on Sunday, May 26, and the live broadcast of it is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. ET from the Speedway, Indiana track, so be sure to tune in to it.

The qualifying sessions for the race are scheduled to be broadcast live on NBC beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, May 18 and Sunday, May 19, so be sure to tune into them as well. To see the full 2019 IndyCar schedule, click here.