Lonnie Wheatley, WINCHESTER, Ind. (April 25, 2019) – Following an Easter weekend washout, Brady Bacon gets back to business as usual with three events over the course of two nights this weekend in Indiana.
Bacon will compete in Saturday’s Non-Wing Sprint Car portion of Lawrenceburg Speedway’s King of the Midwest event and then pull double-duty on Sunday night at Kokomo Speedway in both Non-Wing Sprint Car action and winged 410-ci FAST Sprint Car competition.
Saturday’s card at Lawrenceburg will mark Bacon’s first action since racing to USAC Sprint Car victory lane at Bloomington Speedway’s “Larry Rice Classic” on Friday, April 12.
Bacon started the evening out by timing in eighth-quickest aboard the Hoffman Racing / Mean Green No. 69 and then landed on the pole of the feature event after winning his heat race.
“The Macho Man” left little doubt about the triumph, leading all 30 laps en route to his first Sprint Car score of the year and second win overall.
“It was good to get Florida behind us,” Bacon commented. “It’s nice to know that we’re getting the car dialed in and should be able to contend every night out.”
It followed the previous weekend in which Bacon posted Non-Wing finishes of eighth at Kokomo Speedway on April 4 and then fourth at Lawrenceburg the following night before rounding out the weekend with a fourth-place 410-ci FAST series finish in his first winged outing of the year.
“We had to start at the back of both non-wing features and were able to pass a lot of cars, then a fourth-place run in our first winged start of the year was a really good sign,” Bacon explains. “Each of the cars felt really good so it was a promising weekend.”
Bacon will look to carry the weekend from his Bloomington triumph into this weekend’s events at Lawrenceburg and Kokomo.
Brady Bacon Racing is bolstered by the support of partners including Mean Green, Fatheadz Eyewear, Imperial Wagyu Beef, Gene Franckowiak, Drivewfx.com, Tel-Star Technologies, B&S Cattle, Lykins Oil, Elliott’s Custom Trailers, Triple X Race Co., Hoosier Tire, XYZ Machine, Factor4, Heath Clips Lawn Care, FK Indy, Engler Machine and Tool, Lucas Oil, FK Rod Ends, Keizer Wheels, Purple Heart Foundation, Brown and Miller Racing Solutions, Smiley’s Racing Products, DMI, Walker Filters, ProGlide Coatings, Chalk Stixx, Wilwood Engineering, Lajoie Seats, Smith Precision Products, Allstar Performance, Simpson Racing Products, Driver Websites, Schroth Racing, Saldana Racing Products, KSE Racing Products, King Racing Products, Schoenfeld Headers.
2019 Quick Stats: 23 races, 2 wins, 11 top-fives, 15 top-tens.
Up Next:
Saturday – Non-Wing Sprint Cars at Lawrenceburg (IN) Speedway
Sunday – Non-Wing Sprint Cars and FAST 410-ci Sprint Cars at Kokomo (IN) Speedway
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Penning the recurring series of “The Wheatley Chronicles” articles on www.sprintcarmania.com, Lonnie Wheatley provides media, public relations and more for select tracks, drivers and events. For more information, Wheatley may be contacted at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.
- administrator on Apr 25, 2019
- Article Date: 4/25/2019 by Lonnie Wheatley