Father-Son Wilson Duo Ready to battle Against Each Other in Hot Rods

Brian Wilson Jr. got his feet wet with The Fyre Place & Patio Shop OSCAAR Hot Rods presented by Bromley Automotive in 2025 sharing a ride with his father. The fun prompted him to purchase his own car for the upcoming season to battle against his dad.

The pair have been working in the shop ever since on their respective rides, and can agree on one thing - racecars are very expensive. 

“Owning my car and learning it all very kind of fast, I second his thoughts exactly - work sucks,” Brian Wilson Jr. said. “Spending the money sucks, but I’m sure it’ll all be worth it once we get to the track.” 

Despite this, the excitement is shared between father and son in knowing they will have a chance to race against each other in the Hot Rods this season.

“It's gonna be interesting for sure,” Wilson Jr. commented. “We've raced against each other in mini stock, but I wasn't nearly as good as I am. Now I've gotten a lot better in racing people, instead of just letting them go. So I'm sure there will be some fangs and stuff, but it'll be all right.”

For Brian Wilson, it has always been a goal of his to have the chance to battle against his son on-track. 

“We'll have fun, and I'm sure it'll get more and more intense as the season starts rolling along,” Wilson added. “You know he's been talking a lot. He's saying he's gonna beat me and whatever. I personally don't agree, but you know, that's just part of the fun - talking trash, seeing who's actually better, seeing what car is better. He's done a lot to his car. My car has been a proven contender for wins in OSCAAR and pretty much anywhere it goes, so I don't think the car will be the problem. I think the talent behind the wheel will be the deciding factor.”

The decision to do it in the OSCAAR Hot Rods was also very easy for both, with Wilson Jr. citing the excitement of touring to different tracks with good competition.

“Sometimes you just want to go to other places and OSCAAR definitely delivers that, and also the competition is just insane,” Wilson Jr. offered. “You got drivers like Tyler Hawn, Steve Book, Thomas (Wunsch) has really gotten a lot better over the last few years. Everybody that races with them is on top of their game, and all the people that are coming in this year too, like Jay Doerr, Kevin Cornelius. Those guys are going to be hard to beat.” 

Wilson Jr. knows the season won’t come without challenges, though, as his goal is to learn as much as he can each week on and off the track.

“I'm not gonna lie - I've been a suitcase driver the entire time I've been racing,” Wilson Jr. revealed. “So learning what to do and how to adjust and everything that comes with owning your car is going to be an experience for sure. I can drive, that's the easy part; just everything else is going to be a big learning experience.”

However, when the lessons get tough and there’s questions, he will have a calm voice alongside him to offer tips and advice as necessary, which will be beneficial.

“There's a lot,” Wilson Jr. said of the advice shared through the years. “The biggest piece that I took forever to do and actually listen to was, don't look at the guy you're racing, Like if you just run your lane and most of the people I race against, I trust. So yeah, just not looking at them is definitely beneficial for racecraft, and you know, getting the pass done.”

Seeing the growth of his son over the years as a driver from mini stocks to now Hot Rods is something Brian Wilson takes a lot of pride in, dating back to the very beginning.

“There's not too many people I know that get to say their son won his first race he was ever in and backed up with the second one,” Wilson commented. “It was very pretty funny as Nick Clarke said, because he learned the best of racing and the worst of racing in the first two weeks. You do really well and then you're overconfident - sometimes that doesn't work out very well. 

“But I’m proud to see him do well and progress as fast as he has, and he still wants to go out and race with him in mini stocks; I was trying to pick up what he was doing because there’s different things he would do. You’re stuck in your old days, or you’re stuck in the way you do it, and sometimes, you mix two ideas together, it may work out better.”

Although the schedule will see a lot of familiar tracks for both, returning to Delaware Speedway twice this summer is certainly circled after their first-time experiences last season due to being “just completely different than what we were normally doing.”