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

Of the 54 career USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship victories Brady Bacon has posted in his career, perhaps none have been more satisfying or created such a sense of relief than the one he earned during Wednesday night’s Circle City Salute opener at Indianapolis, Indiana’s Circle City Raceway.

It’s the first of times. It’s the last of times.

Brady Bacon is currently recovering from an eye injury suffered this past weekend during the 4-Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway. The injury occurred when a race fuel device shot methanol into his eye while he was preparing cars for Saturday's main events.

USAC officials have released the rosters for both nights of preliminary action at the fifth running of the Driven2SaveLives BC39 at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. There will be 36 cars in action on Thursday night, and 35 cars racing on Friday night next weekend.

A record-high field of 37 USAC Silver Crown drivers and cars are entered for the 41st running of the 4-Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway on Friday and Saturday.

Seventy USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midgets are entered for the fifth running of the Driven2SaveLives BC39, which will be held at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway from Sept. 27-30.

Tri-State Speedway has been very, very good to Brady Bacon in 2023.

The richest Haubstadt Hustler to date is on tap for the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and Midwest Sprint Car Series Saturday night at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Indiana.

Circle City Raceway presents a smorgasbord of opportunities Friday night in Indianapolis.

The reigning Driven2SaveLives BC39 winning team and driver have filed their entries to compete in the fifth running of the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship events from Sept. 27-30 at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

For Brady Bacon, Devil’s Bowl Speedway was sort of like a Kokomo of the south. Both are tracks he’d competed at extensively but had long come up empty handed in the win column after an extensive number of runner-up finishes.

The spotlight, the prestige, the glory, the atmosphere and the intensity.

If there’s one thing that this past week of racing reminded us, it’s that when the chips are down, Brady Bacon is on the rise.

Mother nature slammed Tri-State Speedway just before hot laps on Saturday night, forcing cancellation of the finale of the 36th annual edition of USAC NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week Presented By Honest Abe Roofing.