Brady Bacon
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Brady Bacon (born January 26, 1990 in Broken Arrow, OK) is an American racecar driver. He currently drives in the USAC Sprint Car Series for Kasey Kahne and is a developmental driver for Chip Ganassi Racing.
Bacon is a third generation driver who started racing at the age of 4 and moved his way up the ranks. In 2005, Bacon was the National Modified Midget Association Nationals Champion and earned Rookie Of The Year honors in the OCRS and SMRS. He was runner-up at the Knoxville Midget Nationals that year and won the Cornhusker Midget Challenge.[1]
Bacon debuted in the USAC National Midget Car Series in 2006, scoring two straight 2nd place finishes in his first two events and seven top 10 finishes total in 11 races. He also tallied six top 10 finishes in 10 USAC National Sprint Car events. That same year, he was the Southern Midget Racing Series champion and scored his first midget victory at Kokomo Speedway in Kokomo, IN. He signed with the Ganassi driver development program as well.[2]
In 2007, Bacon was 4th in USAC National Sprint Car points and 8th in USAC National Midget points. He also finished fourth in Indiana Sprint Week and Indiana Midget Week points that year.
[edit] 2008 Results
| USAC | |||||
| Date | Series | Track | Qualify | Start | Finish |
| January 10 | USAC Midget | Tulsa Expo Raceway | x | 19 | 13 |
| January 12 | USAC Midget | Tulsa Expo Raceway | x | 21 | 7 |
| February 16 | USAC Midget | Manzanita Speedway | 22 | 18 | 11 |
| April 6 | USAC Midget | Anderson Speedway | 13 | 9 | 11 |
| April 12 | USAC Midget | Southern Nat'l Raceway | 16 | 16 | 23 |
| April 18 | USAC Sprint | Gas City I-69 Speedway | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| April 25 | USAC Sprint | Bloomington Speedway | 1 | 16 | 5 |
| April 27 | USAC Sprint | Winchester Speedway | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| May 3 | USAC Sprint | Brownstown Speedway | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| May 4 | USAC Sprint | Kokomo Speedway | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| May 10 | USAC Sprint | Eldora Speedway | 11 | 10 | 2 |
| May 16 | USAC Midget | Lacrosse Fairgrounds | 9 | 7 | 8 |
| May 17 | USAC Midget | Slinger Speedway | 10 | 8 | 14 |
| May 18 | USAC Midget | Rockford Speedway | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| May 24 | USAC Midget | ORP | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| June 5 | USAC Sprint | Big Diamond Raceway | 19 | 9 | |
| June 7 | USAC Sprint | Hagerstown Speedway | 18 | 6 | |
| USAC Sprints | USAC Midgets | ||||||
| Rank | Points | Starts | Wins | Rank | Points | Starts | Wins |
| 3rd (t) | 374 | 8 | 0 | 10th | 255 | 9 | 0 |
