4. Bacon Wins Third Sprint Car Title, Gives Hoffmans #12

For just the second time ever, the same driver opened and closed the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season with a feature victory while also earning the season’s driving championship.

In 2020, it was Brady Bacon who became the first individual to perform that version of the hattrick since Pat O’Connor during the 1956 Midwest season.  Bacon, of Broken Arrow, Okla., also performed a hattrick of another kind in becoming just the seventh driver to win the USAC Sprint Car title at least three times in his career, joining Parnelli Jones (1960-61-62), Larry Dickson (1968-70-75), Sheldon Kinser (1977-81-82), Steve Butler (1986-87-88-90), Robbie Stanley (1991-92-93), Levi Jones (2005-07-09-10-11).

The entrant title was claimed by Bacon’s Dynamics, Inc. / Hoffman Auto Racing team for an unprecedented 12th time, a quarter of which have been captured with Bacon as the driver.  Of the three, this one hits a little different, though, for Bacon who ran the team out of his own Union City, Ohio shop.