His cars won fourteen NASCAR Grand National Series events and sixteen pole positions.

He was first introduced to racing at the 2-mile (3.2 km) board track at Rockingham Park in nearby Salem, New Hampshire.

[4] He drove Modified racecars in Florida and southern Georgia against drivers like Fireball Roberts and Marshall Teague.

[3][4] Fox built Fireball Roberts' engine for the 1955 race on the Daytona Beach Road Course.

[4] NASCAR disqualified the car 24 hours after the event, for the sanctioning body found the pushrods to be 30⁄100 of an inch (8 mm) too short.

"[4] Kiekhaefer's cars won 22 of the first 26 races, with drivers Thomas, Buck Baker, Tim Flock, and Speedy Thompson.

[4] While they were trying to figure out how to increase their speed, a Cotton Owens' faster Pontiac racecar passed him.

[4] The practice of "drafting" has become a common tactic among NASCAR drivers on high speed tracks.

Rookie David Pearson won three races that season in a Ray Fox-prepared Pontiac.

[1] In 1965, LeeRoy Yarbrough drove a Fox-prepared Dodge Coronet racecar to a new closed-course world speed record at 181.818 mph (292.608 km/h).

Son Ray Fox III is currently at Team Penske as the car chief on the #12 Ford of Ryan Blaney.