Silver Hare Eyes World Wide Technology Raceway Repeat

May 9, 2024

Connor Mosack, Boris Said Jr., Jake Drew Hope To Pick Up Where Team Left Off After Last September’s Pole-To-Checkered-Flag Domination by Connor Zilisch

HIGH POINT, N.C. (May 9, 2024) – The Silver Hare Racing trio of drivers Connor Mosack, Boris Said Jr., and Jake Drew return to the scene of a thoroughly dominating victory by the team last fall when the Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series takes to the 1.6-mile, eight-turn World Wide Technology Raceway (WWTR) circuit in Madison, Illinois, for Saturday’s fourth round of the 2024 season.

That dominating performance Sept. 23 came at the hands of 17-year-old Connor Zilisch, who qualified on the pole and led all 61 TA2 race laps to score his and the team’s fourth of five wins of 2023. The young Team Chevrolet development driver who graduated to a mixed bag of NASCAR Xfinity Series, Craftsman Truck Series, ARCA Menards Series, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and zMAX Cars Tour events in 2024 went on to repeat the pole-to-checkered-flag performance at the very next round Oct. 8 at the team’s home track, Virginia International Raceway in Alton, and again at this year’s season-opening round Feb. 24 at Sebring (Fla.) International Raceway.

So it should come as no surprise that confidence abounds in the Silver Hare camp as the series returns to the banks of the mighty Mississippi River just a stone’s throw from downtown St. Louis for just the second time since 1985. Mosack, Said and Drew are champing at the bit to try and pick up where Zilsch left off last September during Saturday’s 63-lap, 75-minute main event.

Mosack, the 25-year-old driver of the No. 77 Silver Hare Racing/PRG Chevrolet Camaro who’s in the midst of his own mixed bag of Xfinity, Truck, ARCA and Cars Tour events for the second year in a row, hits town fresh off his second career ARCA victory last Saturday on the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway oval in Kansas City, the very track where he scored his breakthrough first ARCA win last September. The native of Charlotte, North Carolina, is hoping to carry that momentum into his bid for a third career TA2 Series victory in his first race at WWTR.

Said, the 20-year-old son of veteran NASCAR and sportscar racer Boris Said, returns to WWTR for the second year in a row, but this time behind the wheel of his No. 75 HendrickCars.com/Silver Hare Racing Chevrolet Camaro. Last September, the younger Said drove a Peterson Racing entry to an 18th-place finish from the 15th starting position at WWTR en route to top-10 finishes in both the TA2 Rookie and Young Guns standings. The native of Escondido, California, has shown steady improvement in his first three races driving Silver Hare equipment, but saw his bid thwarted during an opening-lap pileup in the most recent round April 15 at NOLA Motorsports Park in Avondale, Louisiana. He limped his damaged racecar to a 12th-place finish and is ready for a fresh start this weekend.

Meanwhile Drew, the 24-year-old from Fullerton, California, will be making just his third career TA2 start this weekend but has built a solid foundation with his first two appearances behind the wheel of the No. 7 Silver Hare Racing Chevrolet Camaro Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta and NOLA. After narrowly missing a podium finish in his TA2 debut March 24 at Road Atlanta, Drew qualified third and methodically raced his way to a second-place finish four weekends ago at NOLA. The veteran of a half-dozen NASCAR Truck Series events in 2023 and a 23-race slate of ARCA outings from 2021 to 2023 that featured three road-course victories in 2022 is laser focused on going one better at WWTR.

A pair of Friday-morning test sessions kick off this weekend’s on-track action at 8 and 10:25 a.m. CDT, followed by official practice 1:50 p.m. TA2 qualifying is set for 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Race time Saturday is 12:35 p.m. 

Silver Hare Racing leverages its Trans Am effort to promote its arrive-and-drive program, where aspiring racers and even tenured professionals hone their road-racing skills on some of the most revered tracks in North America. NASCAR Cup Series drivers Daniel Suárez, Christopher Bell, William Byron and Harrison Burton have all wheeled Silver Hare Racing-prepared cars to burnish their road-racing abilities in top-flight equipment.

The team offers six, professionally built and maintained TA2 chassis from Howe Racing for both competition and private testing. Silver Hare Racing has a dedicated, fulltime crew and operates out of a state-of-the-art facility in High Point, North Carolina. At the track, two 53-foot Featherlite transporters serve as the team’s base, each outfitted with a lounge and smart TVs for data and video review, as well as for hospitality.

To further Silver Hare Racing’s driver development capabilities, the team’s race shop in High Point is now equipped with a SHOCKWAVE Simulator, a tool specifically developed for drivers to accelerate racetrack familiarity, improve car control and confidence, and build stamina. SHOCKWAVE has been involved in racing since 1965 and is currently actively participating in NASCAR, ARCA, Trans Am, Late Models, and Sprint cars. Its Trans Am package replicates a Howe Racing TA2 chassis, complete with cockpit controls and sounds.

“With NASCAR having so many more road-course races, it’s our goal for Silver Hare Racing to be the preferred team for drivers to get that road-course experience,” said Laura Hull, Silver Hare Racing co-owner and team manager. “We want to be that important step in the ladder for the young, up-and-coming drivers. We want people to know we have an arrive-and-drive program, where for people who want to run this track or another, we provide the opportunity to do that and be successful.”