Brad Sweet
Date of Birth: 12/31/85
Hometown: Grass Valley, Calif.
Marital Status: Single
Children: None
Team: Kasey Kahne Racing
Owners: Kasey Kahne, Mike Curb
Series: USAC Mopar® Midget National Championship & USAC National Sprint Series
Car: No. 49 USAC Mopar Midget & No. 9 USAC National Sprint Car
Sponsor: Mopar
Crew Chief: Davey Jones
Director of Competition: Willie Kahne
Web Sites: www.moparspeed.com, www.mopar.com, www.kkr9.com, www.usacracing.com
QUICK FACTS
- Joined Kasey Kahne Racing for final two events of 2007 USAC Midget and Sprint Car season.
- Highly experienced for his age, averaging 48 starts in each of first five seasons aboard Sprint Cars and Midgets; raced 75 times in 2007 alone.
- Three victories in 2007 showcased his versatility: scored in a winged Sprint Car, a non-winged Sprint Car, and a USAC Western Midget.
- Claimed four wins in 2006, including the $10,000-to-win “Ron Shuman Classic” at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City.
- One of a rare handful of drivers who can claim top-five finishes on all of the following Sprint Car circuits: USAC, the World of Outlaws, the National Sprint Tour, the Sprint Bandits, the King of Indiana Sprint Series, the Golden State Sprint Series, and the Sprint Car Racing Association.
- In 2005, flipped so spectacularly at Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway that his wreck was shown on both ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America” and MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.”
- Won a “Civil War Series” feature in 2004 at his home track in Placerville, Calif.
- Began racing winged Sprint Cars at age 16, winning twice in his first full season.
- Started competing in go-karts as a boy, can claim over 100 karting victories.
- Sweet was once named one of Flat Out Magazine’s “top 25 drivers under the age of 25.”
