WAYNESFIELD, Ohio — Brady Bacon survived near catastrophe coming to the checkered flag and drove to a $12,000 pay day for the Ron Kahle Jr. Memorial at Waynesfield Raceway Park Sunday night.
The event pitted the K&L Ready Mix NRA Sprint Invaders against the Patriot Sprint Tour and drew a strong field of 33 360 sprint cars.
Bacon, the defending USAC National Sprint Car champion, could see the checkers in the air as he exited turn four but two lapped cars ahead of him collided and starting flipping right in front of “the macho man,” who took quick evasive action to avoid the melee.
That set up a one lap dash to decide the huge pay day and Bacon easily drove away when the green came back out.
The victory, Bacon’s second at Waynesfield came less than a week after he took a wild ride at Terra Haute Action Track that left him bruised and battered.
“After last week this is feels fantastic. I just love Waynesfield and the first win was for $3,000 so this might make this my favorite track with a $12,000 payday. My wife and kids are at home watching and probably had a great time but not as good as I had,” said the driver of the Hoffman Racing/Fatheadz Eyewear No. 69. “This is our first winged win with Hoffmans and I have to thank John Cressman for lending us a fantastic running motor.”
Greg Wilson finished second with Dustin Daggett, Randy Hannagan and Jared Horstman filling the top five.
Paul Dues held off a late race challenge from Matt Westfall and Korbyn Hayslett to score his first career Waynesfield win with the MPD Racing Buckeye Outlaw Sprint Series worth $2,500.
The finish:
Feature (40 Laps): 1. 69-Brady Bacon[1] ; 2. W20-Greg Wilson[2] ; 3. 85-Dustin Daggett[4] ; 4. 22H-Randy Hannagan [5] ; 5. 17-Jared Horstman [9] ; 6. 35-Jared Zimbardi[6] ; 7. 22-Conner Loeffler[12] ; 8. 2P-Ricky Peterson[11] ; 9. 79-Jordan Thomas[10] ; 10. 27W-Tyler Gunn[18] ; 11. 5M-Max Stambaugh [19] ; 12. 28F-Davie Franek[15] ; 13. 46-Ryan Coniam[22] ; 14. 18J-Dean Jacobs[16] ; 15. 23-Devon Dobie [20] ; 16. 11-Tim Allison [14] ; 17. 16B-Zane DeVault[8] ; 18. 18-Todd Heuerman[3] ; 19. 2-Dave Axton[21] ; 20. 11W-Harli White[7] ; 21. 12G-Corbin Gurley[24] ; 22. 24-Kobe Allison[13] ; 23. 27-Brad Lamberson[23] ; 24. 22M-Dan McCarron[17]