Sportsman driver Colin Cox won the Grandview Speedway division championship by 1,012 points. Keep in mind, competing at this track is no cakewalk. Last weekend, the track had 48 cars vying for 30 starting spots. The week before, 45 entries.
Also worthy to note, the 16-year-old Cox raced his first full season at Grandview Speedway this year. He started off 2025 with a win on opening night, but that didn’t make things easier.
“Because of handicapping, I started last in my heat races and 14th was my best starting position in a feature,” Cox, of Perkasie, Pennsylvania, said. “It makes you a better driver.”
Cox had no choice — it was either sink or swim. He chose the latter, and not only made every feature, but incurred not one DNF. In fact, his worst finish was a 13th.
“Staying patient is the biggest thing,” said Cox of the key to finishing races. “You have to look two or three rows ahead while racing — it is important to miss all the wrecks. You can’t put your nose in a bad position where you can get into a wreck or get flat tire.”
When he’s not racing others, Cox focuses on racing the track.
“I strived to be consistent — I hit my marks,” Cox said. “In points racing you have to be smarter.”
Cox is as methodical away from the speedway as he is in the shop.
“A lot of the reason we won the championship in our first year is our maintenance program,” said Cox. “We scale our car every week — a lot of racers don’t. If you don’t scale your car, you will be sacrificing speed. We are very methodical in getting our car perfect. We did experiment with different frame heights, to see what could work better.”
The team for Colin Cox consists just of him; his father, Tad; and Jason Hamilton. Together they won two races at Grandview Speedway and the track title in their first full season.
“We were told what we accomplished this season is rare,” Cox said. “We will still continue to focus on the sportsman division next year, but we plan to get our feet wet in the modified division — it’s naturally the next step 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.
