Where you find Ross Robinson, you’ll often find his wife, Amanda Robinson. That was the case this past weekend in victory lane, where Ross won the Mark “Coot” Williams Memorial at Georgetown Speedway in Delaware.
“Amanda and I met in the super late model division back in 2007,” said Ross, of Georgetown, Delaware. “Amanda will race in 20 events and I will race about 80. Any time I’m in the area, I’m excited to be racing with her. Some people find that odd or different, since we work together full-time at our jobs.”
That’s right, both work for car owner Ken Adams at Stockley Speed & Supply in Georgetown. Adams fields the three super late models the Robinson team uses. In addition to the Robinsons, they have one full-time crew member, Michael Roach. On the road, Robinsons’ Labrador Retriever, Beau, accompanies them.
When Amanda isn’t racing, she serves as crew chief for the team.
“We treat it like every other race team does — crew chief and driver,” Ross said. “There’s a professional crew chief-driver relationship. We have disagreements, but that is all part of it. At the end of the day, we’re married.”
Ross enjoys having his wife as his lead wrench.
“We all talk throughout the night and make a joint decisions on the cars,” said Ross. “She’s very knowledgeable. There is nothing she cannot do on the car. She does tires, smashes and dynos shocks, any of the day-to-day stuff that needs to be done.”
This season, Ross may not be able to lean as much on his regular crew chief.
“Amanda has gone on the road with me for the past two and a half years and hasn’t missed too many races,” Ross said. “Beau doesn’t miss too many races either. This year, Amanda will spend more time building up the parts business. There will be more races coming up where we are on the track together.”
Whether it’s turning wrenches together and racing against each other, both Ross Robinson and Amanda Robinson enjoy their time together.
“It’s always a work in progress,” said Amanda. “At the end of the day, you start over again. But, at the end of the day, racing is a lot of enjoyment for us.”
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.
