For most sprint car drivers a season with four wins, five second place finishes and ten more top ten finishes would be a dream and could be described as victorious. Tommy Bryant summed up his 2009 Racing Season by using the word, “Determination”.
The driver of the 21T car is always looking for ways to improve. Although Tommy walked away from the 2009 season as a top competitor and finished third in the ASCS Gulf South Points competition he still wants to improve. Bryant and car owners, David& Beverly Miller, are the heart and soul of the race team. The three spend numerous hours in the racecar shop each week preparing for races and work together at the track. There is not crew man, a crew chief, or many sponsors for that matter. The small independent team strives hard to be fast, consistent, well known, and maintain a good reputation in the racing world.
The team encountered a few disappointments throughout the year, one of which bumped them from a chance at the championship. The team simply stated, “”We’ll keep working, we want it, and we will get it.” That’s Tommy’s and Mr. & Mrs. Miller’s ultimate goal for the 2010 season, they want the championship.
Driver Tommy Bryant
Twenty one year old Tommy Bryant has joined forces with #21T car owner,
David Miller of Conroe, Texas for the 2008 race season after a successful run at the I-30 Short Track Nationals (Little Rock, Arkansas) in late 2007.
Bryant and Miller will be competing in all 25 ASCS Gulf South Region (ascsracing.com) events this season as well as selected events across the state on off weekends. The two have high hopes to snag their first ASCS feature win this year as well as capturing a top five in the ASCS points chase.
Bryant is no rookie when it comes to open wheel racing as he has competed in midgets, carbureted sprint cars, and now injected sprint cars since he was a young 4 years old. Tommy is a determined driver who when asked his feelings on racing will simply state, “It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose”.
Bryant has several carbureted sprint car victories as well as a track championship and rookie of the year honors in 2006, but he is ready to hold the red ASCS victory circle!
Miller is also no rookie to the sprint car reins as he was introduced to sprint cars in the early 80’s first as a fan, then a sponsor, then crew chief to finally a driver in the 90’s. He himself has numerous sprint car wins as well as a track championship. In 2002 Miller decided to take a different approach and move to car owner rather than driver. He has helped several shoes get a start in sprint car racing and has high ambitions for the 2008 race season.
Bryant and Miller have plans on competing in the 2008 Short Track Nationals in late October.
In Loving Memory of Jim 'Grandpa' Bryant
Grandpa unexpectedly went to be with the Lord on
November 14, 2007.
His family and friends loved him very much
and his absence is felt by all.
In lieu of flowers,
the family would be honored if
contributions were made to:
Tommy finished 6th in the second heat race. The crew spent some time trying to learn the set up on the new raised rail chassis and helped Tommy snag 2nd for the B-Main. The 2nd place in the B earned Bryant a starting spot of 18th for the A Feature. Tommy felt comfortable with the starting spot and proved that by immediately racing to the front of the field, by the first caution Bryant was settled into the front half of the field. Tommy continued to "charge" forward and ended up in 7th place and won Hard Charger honors for the night.
The 21T team will be at 105 Speedway in Cleveland, Texas on March 7, 2009.
After three consecutive years among the top ten in final points, Tommy Bryant is poised to contend for the 2009 ASCS Gulf South Region championship.
Tommy will be at the helm of David& Beverly Miller's No. 21T for the second year in a row after posting a career-best finish of fourth in points after finishes of fifth (2007) and ninth (2006) over the previous two years.
Over the course of the 2008 season, the six-time Modified Midget champion collected his first career ASCS feature win with a Gulf South score at Willis' Gator Motorplex on July 19, his top run amidst a season that included 14 top-tens in 20 events.
And, to put an exclamation point on consecutive top-five Gulf South rankings, Tommy has made the championship feature cut over each of the past two seasons at I-30 Speedway's prestigious Short Track Nationals, an event that annually draws approximately 100 of the nation's top Sprint Car drivers.
With ten top-fives and 27 top-tens in 45 career ASCS Gulf South feature starts, Tommy will try to tally some additional wins as he chases down the series title in 2009.
The 21T team would like to welcome new crew member Spencer to the crew!
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Tommy and the B&M Motorsports team traveled to I-30 Speedway in Little Rock,
Arkansas for the second time. The team competed in the 21st Annual O'Reilly Short
Track Nationals presented by Hoosier Tires.
The event welcomed over 100 sprint cars from 15 states, many of whom were driven by
professional racers. Bryant qualified 15th for Saturday night's 40-lap championship
feature event atop I-30 Speedway's high-banked, ¼-mile clay oval. A Feature (40 Laps – Starting position in parentheses):
1. 18b-Tony Bruce, Jr. (1) [$15,000], 2. 9w-Gary Wright (3) [$10,000], 3. 21b-
Brian Brown (4) [$7,500], 4. d12-Tim Shaffer (6) [$5,000], 5. 1-Danny Lasoski
(5) [$2,500], 6. 10-Terry Gray (7) [$2,400], 7. 12-Jeff Swindell (8) [$2,350], 8.
w20-Greg Wilson (14) [$2,300], 9. 75-Jesse Hockett (12) [$2,275], 10. 6b-Dale
Blaney (13) [$2,250], 11. 51b-Mike Boston (9) [$2,225], 12. 15s-Nick Smith (11)
[$2,200], 13. 88-Tim Crawley (2) [$2,175], 14. 99-Brady Bacon (17) [$2,150],
15. 9j-Justin Sturch (21) [$2,125], 16. 21T-Tommy Bryant (15) [$2,100],
17.
a12-Tommy Worley, Jr. (20) [$2,100], 18. 7s-Paul Sides (16) [$2,100], 19. 94j-
Wayne Johnson (10) [$4,100], 20. 55b-Joey Moughan (18) [$2,100], 21. 93m-
Dustin Morgan (19) [$2,100].
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Excerpt from article from Lonnie Wheatley - ASCS website:
After advancing eight positions for a top-five run in the first main event, ASCS Gulf South title contender Tommy Bryant found himself in the sixth row once again in the makeup feature, only to the inside this time. And it didn't take him long to battle into contention, as he had cracked the top five just behind pole starter Terry Monroe, Brandon Corn, Berryman and Channin Tankersley after only a handful of circuits.
Bryant disposed of Tankersley and then moved to third when Corn lost power on the ninth round, precipitating the first of two cautions.
Bryant outdueled Berryman, Tankersley and a surging Ray Allen Kulhanek for second over the next couple of rounds and then charged by Monroe on the top side of turn two on the 12th round to take the lead for keeps.
"I have to thank David Miller and his wife, they give me the best stuff to race with and I'm just happy to be able to get this win for them," Bryant commented after his second career ASCS Gulf South score aboard the B&M Jr./Hometech Construction No. 21T J&J.
Kulhanek claimed runner-up honors after also starting in the sixth row, while Tankersley bounced back from a turn two flip on the third lap of the earlier feature to snare the show position. "My crew was still putting oil in and tightening things up when the feature started rolling, they did a great job just to get me out there," Tankersley explained.
Coupled with a sixth-place run in the early feature, Aaron Reutzel's fourth-place showing in the nightcap kept him atop the ASCS Gulf South point charts, while two-time and reigning series champion Brandon Berryman rounded out the top five.
Bryant has several carbureted sprint car victories as well as a track championship and rookie of the year honors in 2006, but he is ready to hold the red ASCS victory circle! 
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