2019 News and Racing Results

The Smack Down takes points from Thursday and Friday to determine the top 8 in points that run the “King Of The Hill” , an elimination race to determine starting positions for the Saturday finale.

Thursday night was a good night , qualifying 7th, 3rd in the heat and 4th in the A Main. Friday pretty much ruined any chance of winning Saturday. The motor began to fail in qualifying resulting in a 33rd qualifying time. The crew did another amazing job of changing motors in time for the heat race, the crew won the “Hard Work” award. We finished 4th and transferred to the A Main. Brady was on his game and won the “Hard Charger “ award by moving form the back to finish 10 in the A Main.

Yearly ,Indiana Sprint Week is a grind. Now it is 8 races in 10 days and including the rain make up race at Eldora, it was 9 races in 11 days. It takes true racers to survive, much less thrive in that tough highly competitive atmosphere. ISW is hard on drivers, crews and equipment. Arguably a few gremlins cost the HAR Team the ISW title.

In the super competitive world of USAC National Sprint Car Racing, it is a rare race where the winner dominates. That is exactly what happened at the first "Brandt Corn Belt Nationals” finale Saturday night.

Brady qualified 6th in flight #2 and as he did Friday night, dominated his heat race. Being the second highest in Corn Belt points, he started outside front row. Brady gassed the Mean Green/Hoffman/Purple Heart car and beat pole sitter Justin Grant to the first turn. He was gone!!! Brady had a 7 second lead with 10 to go and won by a convincing 8.3 seconds on the big, fast half mile track. The only obstacles along the way were lapped cars. He masterfully got through a few tense laps.

On the second lap of qualifying, the motor started to fail. Brady still was 5th quick in flight 1, but the crew had a big challenge to get the spare motor in the car for the 2nd heat race. Congrats to Matt, DJ and crew for a masterful job in getting the job done. This doesn’t happen by accident, proper planning and preparation makes this happen.

Brady started 5th in the second heat , by the time the cars were on the back stretch, he had the lead. and never looked back.

Port Royal has been one of our favorite tracks over the years. It is a big 1/2 mile where you can let it rip. Brady was in the top five in hot laps. Once again we had issues in qualifying and put ourselves in a hole for the A main.

Brady led every lap of his heat race, but had to start deep in the field for the feature.

Night two of The Eastern Storm saw Brady 2nd quick in hot laps. This was a night when going out later didn’t help much in qualifying. He ended up 12th quick, a good 0.5 off fast time. We finished 2nd in the 3rd heat to transfer to the A Main.

We had a good car in the feature, moving from 12th to 7th and earning Brady the “KSE Racing Products Hard Charger” award for the race.

Brady Bacon pulled off a remarkable feat by winning the first race of the Easter Storm Series for the third year in a row. Brady admitted that this was the first year that he felt that he had the best car for the race at Grandview Speedway. He had a scare in hot laps, as he biked the car and recovered, but stuck with the game plan and qualified 5th. He transferred to the A main in the second heat and prepared for the big money race which paid $10,000 to win.

The first night at the race track without Richard had a flurry of emotions hit us. It sure wasn't the same without him, but we knew he was happy looking down on us and carrying on the Hoffman tradition, as was his wish. 

We were fast all night. Overall we were second in qualifying. Starting 6th in heat #3, Brady quickly got to the lead and ran away for the win. 

The A Main had us starting 5th. Tyler Courtney got to the lead from 7th and was gone. Behind him was a torrid battle with Brady, Thomas, Windom, Short and Leary. Brady drove hard and smart, as usual, got to third and put on a torrid battle with Leary for second. A 3rd place finish was a good night and good points night. 

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Loveland, OH (Dec 21, 2018) Hoffman Auto Racing is proud to announce that Mean Green Cleaner & Degreaser will return as the primary sponsor and with 15 USAC National Sprint Car wins and two USAC National Sprint Car Championships for HAR, Brady Bacon is back in the seat. 

HAR now boasts 108 USAC National Sprint Car wins with 103 of them awarding National points, all since 1989.“When we were unable to work things out for 2019 with Kevin Thomas Jr., we jumped on the chance to get Brady back in the Mean Green car. We want to thank KTJ for all he and Whitney did for us in 2018 and we wish them nothing but the best in the future. I am so grateful to the professionals at Rust-Oleum for allowing HAR to continue to pursue USAC National Championship #12 in 2019 in our 90^th year of operation,” said Richard Hoffman President of HAR.

“Rust-Oleum purchased the Mean Green brand from CR Brands in 2018. We encourage all our race fans to continue to support the brands that support their sport. This includes Rust-Oleum products in addition to Mean Green. We are excited to showcase Rust-Oleum as well as our primary sponsor Mean Green. Lykins Energy Solutions, Hoosier Tires, XYZ machine, Fatheadz Eyewear, Triple X Race Cars, DMI and Tel-Star Technologies will be associate sponsors in 2019. HAR continues as an official Military Order of the Purple Heart Race Team,” commented Tim Waechter, VP of Marketing/PR/Social Media HAR.