He wants to be the youngest Indianapolis 500 champion ever.
CLOSE Watch 11-year-old karting phenom Elliot Cox race around Whiteland Raceway Park. Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar
Justin Wilson wasn’t just her son’s favorite driver; he was Elliot’s inspiration. Justin had dyslexia. Elliot had dyslexia. Justin drove in the Indianapolis 500. One day, Elliot was going to do the same. And most important, he’s hoisted Wilson’s mission on his shoulders. Elliot's spoken in front of the Indiana House of Representatives, urging them to pass a bill on dyslexia screening. He’s started his own charity, one that’s raised more than $50,000 for the Dyslexia Institute of Indiana. He’ll be standing outside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday, Carb Day, selling lemonade, then donating the $10,000 worth of profits to Alex’s Lemonade Stand, which supports childhood-cancer research.
Eventually, they wore her down. If he was going to drive the thing, mom figured, he might as well do it safely. She sprung for lessons and watched his passion bloom. And for a few weeks, Travis Cox actually thought his son’s interest would come and go, that he’d end up back on a baseball diamond or basketball court. He didn’t even go to the track the first few times they went. “Wanted nothing to do with it,” Travis says now, laughing at the irony.
“Just like any muscle in your body, your eyes need to be conditioned and trained and strengthened,” LaPlaca says. “We’re working to speed up how his brain processes information. Even a split second, even a hundredth of a second, can become an advantage.”“When wrecks happen,” Elliot explains, “I used to drive straight into them. I couldn’t see it quick enough. Now I can and I go around it quickly.”
The crashes come. Most are small. Some are not. Elliot flipped his kart during a race last year and had to be checked out by an ambulance. “They literally had to pick me up off the ground,” Amanda remembers. “He was so embarrassed.”He swims in the winters, but racing has become his life. He tried baseball one spring, but during a game early in the season, he scurried into the bathroom, vowing that he didn’t feel well. On their way home he asked if they could head to the track.
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