🏳️ Jace Bacon

Jace Bacon is a competitive amateur racing driver with a Racer Rating of 1,943, placing him in the club racing tier of competitive drivers. His record spans 13 starts across two seasons from 2024 to 2025, with two wins and three podiums to his name. His average finishing position of P11.5 reflects inconsistency across the fields he has contested; his inaugural USF2000 campaign in 2024 yielded no podiums from seven starts and left him P24 in the final order, but his 2025 results in Radical machinery have been substantially stronger. In Radical Cup NA, he secured one win and one podium from three starts for CROWN Concepts w/ APEX, and at the Radical World Finals he won once and podiumed twice in three races, a performance that contributed to recognition as part of a championship-winning team at VIR.[1]

The drivers Bacon has faced are predominantly in the semi-professional and professional bands, and his head-to-head record against them tells a clear story of a developing driver outmatched in most matchups. Across seven meetings with Max Taylor, a one-time champion rated 4,573, Bacon finished behind him every time. The same pattern holds against Max Garcia, a two-time champion at 4,446, and Hudson Schwartz at 3,628; each time he has been consistently outpaced. His only notable competitive moments came against mid-tier rivals: he finished ahead of Evagoras Papasavvas once in seven races, and he beat Brady Golan (FIA Silver, 3,963) twice in seven encounters, records that suggest occasional competitiveness against semi-professional fields rather than a sustained advantage. His isolated wins over FIA Bronze-graded Chris McMurry and Thomas Schrage represent single-race outcomes rather than patterns of superiority.

Bacon remains active in racing and has shown genuine progress from his difficult 2024 entry season to stronger single-seater-comparable machinery. The switch to Radical platforms has yielded more competitive results, and his performance at the World Finals indicates he can run at the sharp end of his chosen class. His career trajectory and current standing place him firmly as an amateur competitor; the strength of his recent results in the Radical series notwithstanding, he has yet to demonstrate the consistency or reliability needed to step into the professional ranks against established full-time competitors.