Colton Hale
Car: No. 12 | Team: Joe Ryan Race Cars | Manufacturer: — | Status: Part-time PLM | Hometown: Manteca, CA | Age: ~12
Career Highlights
Colton Hale is the younger brother of Jace Hale — the 2025 CARS Tour West PLM champion — and represents the fifth generation of racers in the Hale family. His car number 12 was inherited from his great-grandfather, connecting the family's racing lineage directly to the car on track.
Hale started in quarter midgets at age six before moving to Legend Cars, where he won Round 3 of the Cook Out Summer Shootout at Charlotte Motor Speedway in his inaugural season. He races with Joe Ryan Race Cars and has been selected for the Madera Jr. Late Model Combine, a development program for young Pro Late Model prospects. Before racing, Hale competed in rodeo and grew up working with farm animals on the family property — a background that stands out in a paddock increasingly populated by sim-racing graduates.