Sixteen-year-old Bradley Cox signed with R.E.M. Motorsports to run the full 29-race 2026 USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget Championship and will compete for the Max Papis Innovations Rookie of the Year honor. The team, owned by Cappy and Sherry Mason, announced Cox’s official USAC rookie campaign will begin at the Kokomo Grand Prix on April 24-25, 2026, and that he will contest the entire national slate under the R.E.M. Motorsports banner.

A Colorado native who spends part of the year in Texas, Cox is a fourth-generation racer who began driving at age seven. He progressed through outlaw karts, micro sprints and non-wing 305 sprint cars, earned ASCS Elite North Non‑Wing Rookie of the Year honors at age 12 and captured the ASCS Elite North series championship in 2023 with two wins. Cox spent 2024 racing midgets regionally before stepping up to national USAC competition.

Cox made USAC national starts in 2025 at Jefferson County Speedway during Mid‑America Midget Week, where he won a heat and ran as high as seventh in the A-Main before an engine failure ended his finish. After finishing fourth in a Mason-owned POWRi midget at Tulsa’s Port City Raceway in October 2025, Cox linked with Cappy and Sherry Mason’s R.E.M. Motorsports. The team said it is targeting consistency for Cox across marquee venues such as Eldora and other Indiana tracks, with Cox’s stated primary goal to earn Rookie of the Year while gaining experience and steadiness across the full national slate.

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