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DRIVER EGO: The Key to Building a Successful Racing Series

. The Stephen Cox Blog is Presented by McGunegill Engine Performance The easiest way to increase car count in short track racing and amateur road racing is to keep your drivers happy. Really happy. Fortunately, there is a very effective and affordable way to do that. It was four o’clock on a Sunday afternoon, August 29, 2004. It was blazing hot at the Hallett Motor Racing Circuit just outside of Tulsa. Although we missed the setup and were posting slower-than-usual lap times, we won the GT-2 qualifying race after the leader retired with a broken supercharger belt. I climbed out Read More

Cox Joins Codie Rohrbaugh Racing for 2016 Super Cup Season

April 19, 2016

Veteran race driver Stephen Cox will return to the Super Cup Stock Car Series in 2016, taking over the seat recently vacated by 2014 Rookie of the Year Codie Rohrbaugh. The series begins competition at Ohio's Midvale Speedway on May 14th.

CLOSING THE GAP: America’s Only Mid-Level Amateur Endurance Racing Championship

February 15, 2016

The Stephen Cox Blog is Presented by McGunegill Engine Performance

There are plenty of endurance races available to anyone who wants to race $500 junkyard relics. There are also some endurance races available to drivers who want to race million dollar prototypes. But the options are pretty limited for those who want to race something in between.

VIDEO: Sopwith Motorsports 2015 Season-in-Review

Thanks to our great teams and sponsors, the 2015 racing season was a spectacular success for Sopwith Motorsports. Jump back into the cockpit one more time and relive all the record-setting excitement! Thanks to our teams and partners for a great 2015 racing season! Stephen Dale, director, Sopwith Motorsports Television Productions Read More

The Risks of Racing: Maybe We Need Them After All

December 7, 2015

The Stephen Cox Blog is Presented by McGunegill Engine Performance

I began driving race cars in 1985. In the thirty years since, I've had a total of one (1) serious neck injury while racing. It was at Plymouth Speedway in the summer of 1995. I have not had another neck injury since.

COLLECTOR CARS: Rebuilding My Totally-Not-Collectible Mustang, Part II

October 12, 2015

Stephen Cox Blog Presented by McGunegill Engine Performance

The next step in resto-modding my 1980 Ford Mustang is underway, and I am positively giddy.

At this point any rational person is thinking, “And why would someone be positively giddy about the most worthless, undesirable Mustang ever built?” I'm glad you asked.

How an Oval Driver Prepares for a Road Course

May 28, 2015

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Here are five quick questions with Sopwith's Stephen Cox as he prepares for the World Racing League's “Last Checkered Flag” at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend. A two-time sports car champion, Cox has spent most of the last three years on ovals and is now preparing for a return to road racing.

Rocksteady Racing Announces Driver Line-up for Texas World Speedway

May 25, 2015

When Rocksteady Racing takes to the Texas World Speedway road course this weekend in Round 5 of the World Racing League season, it will do so with the services of four experienced drivers hungry for a podium finish.

E. J. Viso Finds New Life in Stadium Trucks

April 7, 2015