Brady Bacon

Brady Bacon (born January 26, 1990) is an American racecar driver. Nicknamed 'Macho Man', he currently drives in the USAC Sprint Car Series. He won the 2014, 2016, 2020, and 2021 national championships. He previously had raced for Kasey Kahne and was a developmental driver for Chip Ganassi Racing.

Racing career 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.

Bacon debuted in the USAC National Midget Car Series in 2006, scoring two straight second-place finishes in his first two events and seven top-ten finishes total in 11 races. He also tallied six top-ten finishes in ten 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, Indiana. He signed with the Ganassi driver development program as well.

In 2007, Bacon was fourth in USAC National Sprint Car points and eighth in USAC National Midget points. He also finished fourth in Indiana Sprint Week and Indiana Midget Week points that year. He continued racing on both the national midget and sprint car toward for Kahne Racing until the end of 2008. He switched to the Mike and Megan Eubanks team starting in 2009 and mainly raced sprint cars in the American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) of 360 sprint cars. He won races at the open race at Bubba Raceway Park, Port Royal Speedway, Terre Haute Action Track, Eldora Speedway in the 32-race season.

In 2018, Bacon became the first-ever winner of a feature event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway dirt track with a victory at the $15,000-to-win USAC Bryan Clauson Classic midget race.