Ryan Timms has been selected as the winner of the 2021 Brady Bacon Baton Award. The Brady Bacon Baton Award is chosen by Brady Bacon, the four-time and the reigning USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car champion.
Each year Brady selects a young driver that he sees as a future star in motorsports.
Timms started off the season in May by becoming the youngest driver to ever win a Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget League event at 14 years, nine months and 24 days old at Lake Ozark Speedway.
The Oklahoma native went on a hot streak this summer winning five times with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series at Lake Ozark Speedway, Riverside Int’l Speedway, Creek County Speedway, 81 Speedway and Outlaw Motor Speedway.
In the fall Timms won at Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare, California, in his first Trophy Cup. And then won the 30-lap sprint car feature at Huset Speedway’s season finale.
Closing out a spectacular year in November in his 12th career United States Auto Club National Midget start, Timms became the youngest winner in USAC midget competition at 15 years, three months and 12 days. The win came driving for Chad Boat at Placerville Speedway in the Elk Grove Ford Hangtown 100.
Previous winners of the Brady Bacon Baton Award are Giovanni Scelzi (2017), Jason McDougal (2018), Buddy Kofoid (2019) and Cannon McIntosh (2020).