SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Bradley Cox will competed for Max Papis Improvements Rookie of the 12 months honors with the USAC NOS Power Drink Midget Nationwide Championship as he takes on the 29-race schedule for Cappy and Sherry Mason’s R.E.M. Motorsports crew.
Cox, who was born in Colorado and resides in Texas, and is at present bouncing back-and-forth between the 2 states, made his first pair of USAC Nationwide Midget begins in 2025, each at Nebraska’s Jefferson County Speedway throughout Mid-America Midget Week.
For the 16-year-old Cox, racing is a lifestyle. He’s a fourth-generation racer, and for him, going USAC Nationwide Midget racing is a dream come true.
“I’m like a bit child in a sweet store. It’s a type of goals come true,” Cox exclaimed. “You dream as a child to go racing on the nationwide degree and to journey everywhere in the United States, particularly doing so for such nice folks. I’m trying ahead to it and I get to convey my household alongside.”
Cox started his racing profession on the age of seven, beginning in outlaw karts earlier than turning his focus to micro sprints. By age 11, he received behind the wheel of a non-wing 305 c.i. dash automotive for a follow session.
At 12, he was the ASCS Elite North Non-Wing Dash Automobile Collection Rookie of the 12 months. One 12 months later, at simply 13, he was the 2023 ASCS Elite North Non-Wing Dash Automobile Collection champion, successful twice on the marketing campaign in Colorado at Honor Speedway and El Paso County Raceway.
By 2024, he ventured into midget racing, competing often with the Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Affiliation. In 2025, he made his USAC Nationwide Midget debut.
In truth, to make his method into his first principal occasion area, he received his warmth race and was working as excessive as seventh within the function when his journey was sidelined with an engine challenge. Regardless of the setback, the second was a turning level for him transferring ahead.
“I believe the most important achieve was in Nebraska,” Cox recalled. “We have been working nicely within the A-Most important and we received our warmth race, however then we had a motor challenge. It actually introduced my confidence up. On this collection, everyone seems to be stout. There are not any slouches in any respect. All people is super-fast and also you’ve received to be in your a-game each lap.”
In October of 2025, Cox made his first run in one of many Mason-owned midgets the place he completed a stable fourth with the POWRi Midgets at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Port Metropolis Raceway. That opened up the door for 2026, and now Cox has teamed up with Mason, a two-time Rocky Mountain Midget entrant champion, to chase USAC glory of their first full 12 months collectively.
“The principle objective is to get rookie of the 12 months. That will be fairly cool,” Cox acknowledged. “I wish to have consistency going to those new tracks I haven’t been to, particularly like Eldora and people Indiana tracks which might be actually well-known. I’m trying ahead to all of it.”
Each of Cox’s grandfathers raced, as his did his uncle. Now, Bradley is following alongside of their footsteps. His nice grandpa, Larry Carnes, was an early competitor within the NASCAR Truck Collection, making one begin at Phoenix Worldwide Raceway in 1999. Bradley’s grandfather, Lonnie Cox, made a complete of 16 NASCAR Truck begins between 1996-2002.
Bradley’s uncle, Kyle Johnson, additionally raced, and so they all had a typical thread in dash automotive racing. In truth, when Bradley was 10, he was the “tire man” for his grandpa’s dash automotive crew.
