INDIANAPOLIS – There is no cheering in the press box, some old sportswriter decreed, and the phrase went into the language. Of course, it was dubious from the start.
Certainly, no one holding media credentials to a sporting event ought to cheer out loud; it’s just bad form. But anytime you carry a notepad into a press box — or a pit area, or a race shop — you find yourself rooting for the good story.
Here was Brayden Fox on the afternoon of Saturday, June 1, seated in a function room at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway. With him were his dad, Brad, and his uncle, Steve. They were there to see Jon Stanbrough, whose career included a magnificent stint aboard the Fox family No. 53 car, inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame.
Brayden checked a weather app to see what was happening in Putnamville, Ind., some 425 highway miles to the east. Cloudy, temps in the 60s. Saturday nights in Putnamville mean sprint car racing at Lincoln Park Speedway, where at that moment Brayden was atop the point standings.
Track championships are hard to come by, and Brayden Fox has never won one. Most folks would have expected him to stick close to home and look after that points lead. But most folks don’t know enough about these Foxes.
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