PROFILE
Owner:
Bradford Lee Hockaday
Hometown: Bartow, FL
Residence: Kannapolis, NC
Birth Date: January 7, 1984
Age: 25
Weight: 180 Pounds
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Hazel
Years in Industry: 20
HIGHLIGHTS:
2009 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
2008 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
2007 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
2006 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
2005 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
ASA Late Model Series Administrative
ARCA ReMax Series Flagman
Lowe's Motor Speedway Assistant Race Director
ASA Late Model Series Flagman (4 Races out of 16)
World Karting Association Employee
2004 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
2003 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Brad Hockaday started flagging at the age of five. In 1989, his first full season of flagging for a series Jr. division go-karts, he was able to attend all the races and impress many drivers. In 1989 through 1996 he only worked for one series that traveled to some other race tracks. At the end of the 1996 season he was asked to be the Promoter and Flagman for the next year’s series which he maintained up till he moved to Indianapolis, IN.
Brad turned his attention to stock cars in 1997. He became the assistant flagman for Auburndale Speedway. There is where he started getting his exposure to carry him through today. He flagged practice, qualifying and some heat races in 1997 for Auburndale Speedway.
Brad was asked in the winter of 1998 by INEX to come flag their Legend Cars. They wanted him to flag the Winston Select show which is where they run in the breaks while the Winston Cup cars are off the track. After working the one show with them he was asked by Roger Slack former American Speed Association flagman to come back and flag the Wendy’s Summer Shootout Series for Inex. When the Summer Shootout Series was over he was asked by Inex to return to flag their Nationals in November
Brad was asked in 1999 by Southern Automobile Racing Association to come score when needed and other races he could work on the Front Stretch relining cars. While working for SARA he was asked by Don Nerone the Promoter of New Smyrna Speedway and Orlando Speedworld to come and flag for him in 2000 because his flagman was quitting.
While working for New Smyrna Speedway and Orlando Speedworld Brad was asked by World Karting Association to come flag there National Pavement and Dirt series which only consisted of 12 events.
Brad was asked in the winter of 2002 to come to work with North American Midget Auto Racing Series as the Marketing Coordinator. NAMARS also wanted Brad to be the Flagman and Chief Steward for the Kenyon MidgetCar Series. He was also the Director of Operations at the race track. He made sure everything was set up and ready to go as soon as he arrived at the track.
In 2003 Brad got a life time opportunity to join the American Speed Association as an Tower Official. He would take the job he would also become the back up flagman. The tower job was for him to do the race progress sheet and work in TV Interface during the race. He would also keep working with North American Speed Association as Flagman for both Midgetcar and Kenyon Midgetcar Series. The position of Director of Operations was still in Brad’s job title.
In 2004 Brad had a busy schedule. He was somewhere in the United States every weekend. If he wasn’t with ASA he was with either USAC or WKA. Brad was the head flagman for the ASA Late Model series in its inaugural season. Brad was also working for the ASA National Tour as a tech official and tower official during the races. Brad was asked to be an substitute for the USAC flagman Tom Hansing when he couldn’t make the races. That gave Brad the opportunity to flag USAC Midgets and Sprint Cars all over the Midwest during their season. Brad worked 44 of the USAC shows. Brad worked 14 ASA Late Model and National Tour shows. He also worked as Assistant Race Director for WKA for 2 of the 4 Gold Cup races and also worked 2 of the Heartland Dirt series races for WKA. Plymouth Speedway hired Brad for their Sunday shows in Northern Indiana. He worked there as Race Director and Flagman. Brad had all the responsibilities on his shoulders. He brought the car count up to 100 cars from 30 and the crowd picked up also. As you can tell he had one busy season. He did do a couple single event shows.
The season was a long one for Brad this year. He was at a race track 120 days with 6 series in 2005 very impressive if I must say. The year was unknown until one week before Daytona Speedweeks, as Brad accepted a job with ARCA ReMax Series as the Assistant Flagman. That would only last for a few races before he was promoted to the Head Flagman for the series. He saw several race tracks and flagged some of the fastest tracks in the US along with biggest such as Talladega, Salem, and others. With that said Brad still tried to keep his status with ASA Late Model Series to a well known level. He accepted an Administrative role in April for the series which would keep him busy Monday thru Friday at his home office. He did go to a few races but just under a hand full which was a big change from going to all of them in 2004. Tom Powell was asked to fill Brad's shoes on the ASA Late Model Series as he did a great job at it. Lowe's Motorspeedway became a home away from home during the Hardee's Summer Shootout Series that runs on the 1/4 mile at the Superspeedway. Roger Slack would make Brad his right hand man through the Shootout and events at the Dirt Track. USCS asked Brad to come flag one race at Concord Motorsports Park in early April after that he was asked to come work more events for the series. He would do so and make it to about 30 races with them. USAC only saw Brad 5 times this year do to him moving to the South and not living in the Midwest this season. WKA would only see Brad at two events to help out as a fill in. Brad had an outstanding 2005 and looks forward to 2006 where the schedule will expand and He will get to do a couple prestigious shows.
As 2006 starting coming together Brad could tell it was going to be another busy season with work for 6 series again with well over 200 races available to him to work out of that he worked around 140. Daytona was the season starter this year for Brad and a busy week it was working both the Superspeedway and Volusia Raceway Park flagging the Sprint Cars. He got to add the World of Outlaws and All Star Sprints to his list of accomplishments. Once the season started at Lowe's Motor Speedway, Roger Slack the Events Director at LMS asked Brad to take over the role of Race Director for the Summer Shootout Series which runs on Tuesday nights on the 1/4 Mile. Brad had a very busy summer as he was only home usually Sunday and Monday night all the other days he was on the road or working at a race track for one of the series. Brad was promoted at ASA Late Model Series as the season got started he took over the Events Operations. Brad stayed busy during the week working for ASALMS full time and traveling with which ever series it was that week and he would resign his position with three races left in the season. Brad replaced ASALMS with Georgia Asphalt Series Late Models. USCS saw Brad in the Starter stand very few times this year because of other comments with ARCA, ASALMS, or LMS. However, he did manage to go to a few tracks with USCS that he had never been to such as Five Flags Speedway, Mobile International Speedway, and South Georgia Motorsports Park. Brad worked a hand full of USAC races in 06 as he did the first two nights of Indiana Sprint Week and flagged a couple more events. Brad was hurt during Indiana Sprint Week at Bloomington Speedway in Bloomington, IN he was knocked unconscious and received an concussion. This would take Brad away from the track for EIGHT Weeks. Brad eventually got back to normal and went back to working on September 16th. Brad is looking forward to 2007.
In 2007 Brad was looking for more things and better things to do. As he
was trying to improve on his career. Doing the weekend jobs were getting old for
Brad. He began to work towards finding a full time job. He started
as a salesman for RACEceiver with their timing and scoring systems. Brad
would also sell the RACEceivers. As the year began to come to an end he
was offered the General Manager position at Rockingham Speedway which he took.
He soon realized that it wasn't for him and he would move on.
In 2008 he co-owned RaceTrack Engineering with Dave Dusick but would split on May 1, 2008. This is when Professional MotorSports Solutions was created and started to help the industry move forward and save money in the entertainment business.