{"id":6991,"date":"2019-07-07T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=6991"},"modified":"2019-07-07T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T16:43:07","slug":"brady-bacon-leads-all-30-laps-to-win-first-corn-belt-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/07\/07\/brady-bacon-leads-all-30-laps-to-win-first-corn-belt-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady Bacon leads all 30 laps to win First Corn Belt Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

After winning the Friday night feature of the Brandt Agriculture Corn Belt Nationals at Knoxville Raceway this weekend, Brady Bacon <\/strong>had a big advantage in the event points standings to help him start on the front row of the $20,000-to-win.<\/p>\n

After that, he led all 30 laps of the main event, becoming the first ever winner of the Non-winged Corn Belt Nationals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s means a lot any time you can win at Knoxville in anything \u2013 a pro sprint, a 360, a 410, or a non-wing \u2013 anything, it\u2019s an honor in this facility.<\/p>\n

Brady Bacon leads all 30 laps to win First Corn Belt Nationals<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Bacon eventually crossed the line eight seconds ahead of C.J.<\/strong>\u00a0Leary,\u00a0<\/strong>after he defended a slide job from the USAC points leader on lap 4. That was the only challenge anyone had at taking the lead.<\/p>\n

Behind Bacon, Leary battled with\u00a0Tyler Courtney<\/strong> for second-place.<\/p>\n

“I really thought we had the car to beat,” Leary said. “We got up to second and got right there on Brady and tried to slide him. Once [the track] built up a curb, we were way to tight to run it like him.”<\/p>\n

Bacon said he’d be back for both the 360 and 410 Knoxville Nationals in August following the conclusion of Indiana Sprint Week.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately this doesn\u2019t pay any points towards the championship \u2013 just show up points \u2013 but confidence is everything in this sport,\u201d Bacon said. \u201cThis is our busiest time of year going into Indiana Sprint Week and that can make or break your entire points chase.\u201d<\/p>\n

The USAC Amsoil Sprint Car National Championship returns to the track on July 17, racing at Eldora a day before they set off for Indiana Sprint Week \u2013 taking on eight races in 10 days in the state known for motorsports.<\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> Annual Corn Belt Nationals Results
\n<\/strong>1. Brady Bacon
\n2. C.J. Leary
\n3. Tyler Courtney
\n4. Kevin Thomas Jr.
\n5. Chris Windom
\n6. Justin Grant
\n7. Jason McDougal
\n8. Chase Stockton
\n9. Ryan Bernal
\n10. Carson Short
\n11. Matt Westfall
\n12. Korey Weyant
\n13. Wyatt Burks
\n14. Josh Hodges
\n15. Nick Bilbee
\n16. Dave Darland
\n17. Mario Clouser
\n18. Steve Irwin
\n19. Kory Schudy
\n20. Anthony Nicholson
\n21. Riley Kreisel
\n22. Chad Boespflug
\n23. Tim Buckwalter
\n24. Wesley Smith<\/p>\n

B-Main Results
\n<\/strong>1. Dave Darland
\n2. Josh Hodges
\n3. Anthony Nicholson
\n4. Kory Schudy
\n5. Korey Weyant
\n6. Steve Irwin
\nTop six transfer to the A-Main<\/em>
\n7. Glen Saville
\n8. Cody Gardner
\n9. Mitchell Davis
\n10. TJ Artz
\n11. Lane Stone
\n12. Chris Morgan
\n13. Rob Caho Jr.
\n14. Katlynn Leer
\n15. Dustin Christie
\n16. Dickie Gaines
\n17. Terry Richards
\n18. Brandon Stevenson
\n19. Logan Faucon
\n20. Jori Hughes
\n21. Slater Helt
\n22. Brandon Halverson
\n23. Landon Simon
\n24. DNS – Don Droud Jr.<\/p>\n

C-Main Results
\n<\/strong>1. Chris Morgan
\n2. Brandon Stevenson
\n3. Lane Stone
\n4. Slater Helt
\n5. Jori Hughes
\n6. Brandon Halverson
\nTop Six transfer to the B-Main<\/em>
\n7. Doug Sylvester
\n8. Steve Thomas
\n9. Braydon Cromwell
\n10. Frank Rodgers III (9)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After winning the Friday night feature of the Brandt Agriculture Corn Belt Nationals at Knoxville Raceway this weekend, Brady Bacon had a big advantage in the event points standings to help him start on the front row of the $20,000-to-win. After that, he led all 30 laps of the main event, becoming the first ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":6992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[1157,1158,1156,1008,957,1155],"class_list":["post-6991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dirt","category-more-racing","tag-brady-bacon","tag-cj-leary","tag-corn-belt-nationals","tag-knoxville-nationals","tag-knoxville-raceway","tag-usac"],"modified_by":"Connor Ferguson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}