For the first time in his accomplished open-wheel career, Brady Bacon will turn his priorities to winged Sprint Car racing in 2025.

On Tuesday, the four-time USAC National Sprint Car champion announced that he’s put together a pair of winged Sprint Car deals for next season that includes roughly 40 races with the No. 21H TKH Racing team along with an additional 25-30 races with Chris Dyson Racing.

The 34-year-old Bacon doesn’t intend to race a national series on Kubota High Limit Racing or the World of Outlaws next season, saying “it would be nice with the tow money and everything, but it doesn’t really fit the infrastructure that I have in place.”

“I built a team to run the USAC schedule, and for years we have had a lot of success doing that, but it is a giant leap in the resources needed to go on the road fulltime with the Outlaws or High Limit,” Bacon added via press release. “I felt like the time has come to move on from that and shift our focus to winged Sprint Car racing now that we are prepared and have the proper equipment.

“I don’t like to jump into stuff until I know I can do it properly. Kelly and Lora (Hinck, owners of TKH Racing) have invested so much into growing this team, and this year our results started to reflect that.”

With that, Bacon’s decorated run of four titles and more than 50 wins with the Richard and Rob Hoffman-owned No. 69 wingless Sprint Car team will come to an end after the 2024 USAC National Sprint Car season. Bacon is currently 86 points behind Logan Seavey with four races remaining in the USAC National Sprint Car title race.

“I am extremely grateful for my time involved with the Hoffman family and the opportunity I had to represent their legacy in the famous Hoffman 69,” Bacon said via press release while going on to say that “Richard and Rob Hoffman were critically influential in my career, and it has been an honor to be a part of adding to their unbelievable list of accomplishments.”

Bacon isn’t moving on from USAC entirely as he aims to race 15-20 events with the sanctioning body with Dyson next year.

“USAC has also been great to me and has allowed me to build a great career and life for my family,” Bacon said via press release. “However, I feel like now is the time for me to make a change in my career and shift my focus in a different direction.”

Bacon’s relationship with Dyson and the Hincks are both strong ones. Bacon’s raced Silver Crown events the last two years with Dyson while bolstering the Hinck’s Sprint Car program, which featured Bacon in his first Knoxville Nationals main event in August. Bacon also won April 20’s World of Outlaws event at Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway.

“Obviously, money talks, and I think this was a big year,” Bacon said via press release. “I think the TKH team and I have almost reached the highest level of success we can obtain without taking a step and racing winged Sprint Cars all the time.”

Bacon’s logged 25 winged Sprint Car starts this year, and that number figures to nearly triple next season as he aims for roughly 70 total winged starts in a freelance schedule between the Dyson and Hinck operations.

“I felt like it was going to be difficult to keep improving if we didn’t expand the wing schedule,” Bacon said via press release. “Our original goal was to try to put together a plan with the 21H to do 50 races, which would have been difficult with a family owned team.”

Bacon’s pair of winged deals will employ virtually identical equipment with Triple X Chassis, FK Shocks, XYZ Machining parts “to build off of the speed we have now and share information going forward.”

“My longtime supporter and friend Gene Franckowiak will continue to support the engine program for the USAC races with Chris Dyson Racing,” Bacon said. “I am really excited to keep working with Gene. He has played a major role in my success with USAC in recent years and we hope to add more wins and get closer to the top of the all time list.”

Some of Bacon’s 2025 plans include Crown Jewels in Central Pennsylvania and a steady diet of races across the Midwest. He’ll also race with the ASCS and USAC to begin the year in Florida while wanting to pull double duty at Eldora Speedway’s #LetsRaceTwo event and 4-Crown Nationals.

“My family and I have discussed the possibility of these changes for quite some time and we are very excited about the new plans for next season,” Bacon said. “Having my family with me as much as possible is very important to me, and we are looking forward to this fresh schedule.”