Brady Bacon
USAC
Brady Bacon is years ahead of the competition. The dirt wizard has been racing since an early age and has gained great exposure because of his talent.
Bacon's only down fall is his age at this point as he is restricted from running on tracks over 3/4 of a mile. Not that he cant run on the larger tracks but rules are not allowing him.
His asphalt experience is limited but he should gain on his competitors quickly, running the USAC Sprint and Midgets this season with Kasey Kahne equipment. Highly recommended, Bacon could be the next open wheel standout but the competition is as fiece as any in the past 3 decades.
He’s a 17-year-old in a fireproof suit and he’s never had even so much as a B in school. He’s a full-on scholar who actually enjoys solving calculus problems, and will graduate a year early as valedictorian of his high school class this year.
The slight, humble, bordering-on-shy kid might look like captain of the high school chess team, but when the green flag drops, Brady Bacon is equal part surgeon and fearless teenage hero.
He may not think so, but the likes of Chip Ganassi do not just knock on any young racer’s door unless there is something special brewing.
Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Bacon made an immediate impact in USAC’s Midget Car Series in early 2006, taking a pair of runner-up finishes at Knoxville, Iowa, and two months later his first USAC victory at Kokomo, Ind., which prompted a driver development contract with Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS).
In 1994, he began to write his racing resume in Quarter Midgets at the age of five in the Junior Novice division. In 1998, Bacon won the Junior Honda Region 6 Championship in Quarter Midgets before moving into 250cc micro Sprints.
By 1999, he had secured the Senior Honda Region 6 title in Quarter Midgets, and had his sights on racing the 600cc restricted class, where at Port City (Okla.) Raceway he finished second in the point standings.
The 2002 season was a breakthrough for the12-year-old as he moved up to the National Modified Midget Association in their restricted classes, taking 10 feature wins and capturing the Region 11 point standings. The next season Bacon won his second straight Region 11 championship race as well at the Central States title event, in addition to four other feature victories
In 2005, he raced in a variety of divisions, including the Southern Midget Racing Series, where he claimed Rookie of the Year honors, the OCRS winged Sprint Car division, and several NMMA races. Without missing a beat, he won the 2006 SMRS championship after dominating the season, winning more than half of the series' races.
This season Brady Bacon will contest a full USAC Sprint Car and Midget schedule in the CGRFS development program behind the wheel of NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne’s factory-backed Mopar cars
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