American Racing News Vol 1, Issue 2 Issue 8 | Page 40

Wayne City, IL - Wayne County
Speedway in southern Illinois
is a place that's become near
and dear to Brady Bacon and
the FMR Racing team.
Nearly exactly one year to the
day of Bacon and FMR's initial
series start, the duo reached
its greatest height yet Friday
night - their very first USAC
National Midget feature
victory in the midget racing
season's largest winner's
payout share in North
America.
Bacon, the 2014 USAC AMSOIL
National Sprint Car champion,
sped past Chris Windom on
the eighth lap and
immediately pulled away,
leading the final 33 laps of the
40-lap "Jason Leffler
Memorial" co-sanctioned by
POWRi to, ultimately, take the
commanding half-straightaway
victory worth $20,000. It was
the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

driver's third career USAC
National Midget feature win
and his first in the series since
winning the "Hut 100" at
Haubstadt, Indiana's Tri-State
Speedway in 2012.
"I think it's amazing how far
we've come from this race last
year to now," Bacon said. "We
were good at this race last
year, but at the beginning of
this year, we had some
struggles and had to fine-tune
some stuff and get things
rolling to catch Keith (Kunz
Motorsports) and some of the
faster guys. I'm impressed how
fast we've been able to do it."
The team's Wayne City
performance follows up a
frustrating three-day weekend
at the "Gold Crown Midget
Nationals" in Granite City,
Illinois two weeks prior in
which the team ran into
misfortune night-after-night
despite having one of, if not