Best Performance Motorsports Venturing Into Open Whee Racing, Landon Simon Driving

[CIRF]

Good to see a late model organization decide to dip their toe into the open wheel racing pond. Landon Simon is a good choice for their driver. He's run very well in the WAR sprint cars of late. Good, clean smart driver.

We wish BPM and Landon luck and success in this new endeavor.





INDIANAPOLIS (November 26, 2018) — It was announced today that reigning Lucas Oil WAR Wildcard Series Champion Landon Simon will drive for Best Performance Motorsports in 2019.

Simon, who has owned, operated and driven his familiar black, silver and blue LSR No. 24 with support from primary sponsor Mt. Baker Vapor for the past five years will switch to BMP’s black, green and blue No. 1 beginning this week at the Gateway Dirt Nationals.

“I am really excited about this opportunity and the future at Best Performance Motorsports. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished at LSR the last 5 seasons and look forward to taking that to BPM. Aligning common goals and bridging the gap between Late Model and Sprint Car racing creates a new world of opportunity,” said Simon.

The Best Performance Motorsports Super Late Model team based out of St. Marys, Ohio has competed full time with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series since 2016. The newly formed open wheel team will operate out of Simon’s Indianapolis shop. A full Sprint Car schedule and additional Midget events will be released at a later date.

The Gateway Dirt Nationals is held in The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri and features the largest indoor dirt track in America, with a semi-banked 1/5 mile dirt surface. The temporary oval within the 67,000-seat stadium on the Mississippi River will see midget racing for the first time ever this week.

“I can’t wait to debut this new partnership at Gateway. Last year we worked with event promoter Cody Sommer and did some testing at The Dome. The atmosphere in there is unreal. I can’t thank him enough for giving us another great event,” added the 29-year-old Sprint Car driver.

At Gateway, Simon will drive the Best Performance Motorsports, Mt Baker Vapor, Toyota-powered Triple X. LSR partners Duncan Oil Company, Simpson Race Products, Keizer Aluminum Wheels, BMRS, Astro Titanium, DMI, Rod End Supply, Hoosier Tire and High Side Design will continue their support in 2019.

[CageFaraday]

They actually were an open wheel team first, or at least before. Up thru 2015 Matt Wesfall was their driver in DLM and Sprints, with modest performance in DLM. Then at the World Finals in Charlotte late 2015 they invited Brandon Sheppard to drive the car which had been hot/cold car in Matt's hands prior, suddenly they won. After that Matt Westfall was gone from the team.

[CIRF]

Crickets, who would have thought.

Ya' got that right, High. Surprising that the late model people aren't all over this!