(Wilmot, Wis., Saturday, August 30, 2025)--Tim Cox of Park City, IL overcame a rough start to score Wilmot Raceway 75th Season Track Championship in the WingLESS Sprints Saturday, August 30, 2025.
Adam Taylor of Whitfield, IN bounced back from a hard flip a week earlier at LaSalle(IL) Speedway to win his third 20-lap AutoMeter powered by Gandrud Performance Wisconsin WingLESS Sprint Series feature at Wilmot in nine starts this season.
"There's a lot of people behind the scenes who trashed to get this car back out after our mishap in the heat race," Cox said, referring to a tangle which saw both he and fast qualifier Bryce Andrews of Kenosha getting collected and hitting the wall coming out of turn four. "There were a lot of people from a lot of crews who all helped out as we had to replace the front end. I have to thank all of them along with my regular crew."
"This is pretty special as I believe I am the oldest driver to ever win a Wilmot championship" said Cox, who turns 65 in two weeks. "I have to thank BG Wood for offering me this deal to drive this car or I wouldn't have even been out here this year. I don't intend to hang up the helmet any time soon, just don't let my wife Cheryl hear me say that."
"I have to congratulate Tim (Cox) on the track championship, and thank my mom and dad, girlfriend, all of our supporters and team who worked to get this car back together after our flip last week," said Taylor who is the overall Wisconsin WingLESS series championship leader with five point shows remaining on the 2025 slate.
"I had to stick to the bottom and it worked just right when I got John (Fahl) coming out of turn four down the front straightaway," commented Taylor, referring to his eventual race winning move with two laps to go. "I have to commend the track prep crew who did an outstanding job giving us an awesome track to run on allowing us to put the car anywhere we wanted and make it stick."
Fahl, of Brown Deer, took the initial lead holding top spot until cautions eight and five laps from the finish kept closing up the gap he had over the field. Taylor, working his way up from the original eight spot on the grid, set his sites on Fahl following the final caution.
Taylor scored the win, his fifth in the Wisconsin WingLESS series and sixth overall having won an American Sprint Car Tour feature as well. Fahl held off third place finisher Allen Hafford of Beach Park, IL to come across runner-up.
Tyler Kuxhouse of Antioch, IL finished third which was good enough to push him to second in the final Wilmot standings, 10 points back from Cox. Bristol's Chris Klemko, who came into the night 20 behind Cox in second place, finished 7th in the feature ending up third in the season standings 6 points behind Kuxhouse and 16 away from Cox.
Doing double-duty, Klemko flipped at the start of the 2nd Winged 604 Sprint heat. Klemko was able to make it out to run in the Winged 604 feature.
Dennis Spitz of Lewisburg, KY finished fifth in the feature.
Fahl won the Fox Lake Harbor presents All Star Performance 1st Heat. Taylor took the Game Day Men's Health presents Behling Race Equipment 2nd Heat. Kuxhouse captured the BR Motorsports presents King Race Products 3rd Heat.
Andrews, who posted a qualifying mark of :14.379 seconds to take Body Craft of Antioch, IL Qualifying honors, also made it out for the wingless feature but retired after making the start attempt.
The Wisconsin WingLESS Sprint Series heads north to Door County joining the Bumper to Bumper IRA Winged Sprints along with Modifieds on Labor Day weekend Sunday, August 31 at The Hill Raceway in Sturgeon Bay.
Next weekend, Friday and Saturday, September 5 and 6, the WingLESS again join the winged 410s in a two day appearance at Cedar Lake Speedway in Somerset.
On Saturday, September 13, the Wisconsin WingLESS return to their original home track of Wilmot where the series began 11 years ago, as part of the Fall Classic season finale for Wilmot's 75th Season.
On Saturday, September 20, the WingLESS join the card for the 8th Annual Jim "Wildman" Watson Classic at Plymouth Dirt Track.
The 2025 Wisconsin WingLESS champion will be crowned at the Wisconsin Sprint Championships on Saturday, September 27 at Plymouth Dirt Track. IRA Winged 410s, MSA 360 Sprints and 11-75 Sports Complex & Eatery IRA Lightning Sprints complete the all sprint car program.
One final event, a non-points show, finds the Wisconsin WingLESS Sprints joining the NOS Energy World of Outlaws Sprint Cars Saturday, October 18 at newly reopened LaSalle Speedway in Illinois.
Submitted by Mike Babicz - IRA
Photos by Charlie Lancour
- Michael Babicz on Aug 31, 2025
- Article Date: 8/30/2025 by Mike Babicz