Racing veteran Brandon Bosma finally found the missing piece to the puzzle and won his first IMCA RaceSaver sprint car feature. The triumph occurred last Friday at Jackson Motorplex in Minnesota.
“It was three years ago that I had a wild hair to get a sprint car,” Bosma, 28, of Rock Rapids, Iowa, said. “I had been in racing for 12 years, and just jumped into the RaceSaver division. There were days I thought I shouldn’t have done so. I couldn’t seem to keep an engine together. I just kept working at it with hopes of coming full circle.”
Brandon Bosma drove in just about every dirt division, from stock cars to modifieds, before settling into his RaceSaver sprint car. By day, he earns a living as a finance manager for a car dealership. During weeknights, you can find him working on the sprint car he owns and finances himself.
“The allure of sprint cars is speed,” said Bosma. “If your car is set up correctly and your engine is performing well, driving a sprint car will be the most fun you ever had in your life.”
After purchasing a Maxim chassis, Bosma bolted on the best parts he could find. Yet, he couldn’t pull off a win. Engine problems plagued him until connected with Adam Cofer, of Salina Engine in Salina, Kansas.
“The engine was the missing piece to my puzzle,” Bosma said. “That made the difference this past weekend.”
Bosma’s first win didn’t come easy. He had to beat Dusty Ballenger. (For more on Ballenger, read “Dusty Ballenger: Lapped Car Sent Him for a Tumble”.)
“When you race against the best drivers, a win is more meaningful,” said Bosma. “I passed Dusty Ballenger to get my first win. He’s one of the guys I look up to. The fact he and other top drivers were racing in that feature with me made my first win much more important to me.”
Outside Groove Note of Transparency: We corrected the hometown of Brandon Bosma (2021-06-15).
Mike Adaskaveg has written hundreds of stories since the website’s inception. This year marks his 54th year of covering auto racing. Adaskaveg got his start working for track photographer Lloyd Burnham at Connecticut’s Stafford Motor Speedway in 1970. Since then, he’s been a columnist, writer, and photographer, in racing and in mainstream media, for several outlets, including the Journal Inquirer, Boston Herald, Stock Car Racing, and Speedway Illustrated. Among Adaskaveg’s many awards are the 1992 Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA) Ace Lane Photographer of the Year and the 2019 National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) George Cunningham Writer of the Year.
