Lonnie Wheatley, WINCHESTER, Ind. (August 16, 2019) – Brady Bacon’s most recent outing aboard the Klatt Enterprises No. 6 USAC Silver Crown entry atop the central Pennsylvania Williams Grove Speedway clay oval in June resulted in the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma native’s first series win.
“The Macho Man” will try to make it two series wins in a row on the dirt with this Saturday’s Bettenhausen 100 at Springfield’s Illinois State Fairgrounds mile oval.
Already with eight overall wins to his credit this season, Bacon has spent the past two weekends competing in Sprint Car action in Iowa.
Along with a return to Knoxville 360 Nationals competition and another round of Knoxville Nationals action, the highlight of the ten-night run of racing was a rousing rally from 26th to win the WAR Sprint Car Ultimate Challenge at Oskaloosa, Iowa’s Southern Iowa Speedway on Tuesday, August 6.
Bacon earned the pole position for the feature by racing from seventh to win his heat race aboard the BBR No. 99 entry. He then accepted the challenge to race from the tail of the field.
Challenge accepted and challenge conquered, as Bacon needed just 13 of the 25 allotted laps to rally into the lead and collect the $6,000 winner’s share.
Bacon preceded that with a 12th place run in his Knoxville 360 Nationals preliminary night and then a tenth-place finish in Saturday night “B” Main action.
After the Ultimate Challenge triumph, he kicked off his Knoxville Nationals pursuit in strong form by timing in fifth-quickest among the Wednesday night, August 7, field of 53 competitors. After missing the transfer out of heat race action by just one position, Bacon narrowly missed the transfer from the “B” Main and went on to Friday’s Hard Knox card and then finished out the week with a tenth-place showing in Saturday’s “C” Main.
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: 79 races, 8 wins, 31 top-fives, 43 top-tens.
Up Next: USAC Silver Crown at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield on Saturday.
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- administrator on Aug 16, 2019
- Article Date: 8/16/2019 by Lonnie Wheatley