Up and Down Day for TeamSLR at Laguna Seca
May 4, 2025
Late Incidents Ruin Winning Bids for Tristan McKee and Barry Boes;
M1 Racecars Tops in Pro-Am (Jared Odrick), Western Challenge (Brody Goble)
Overview:
Date: May 3, 2025
Event: Mission Foods Laguna Seca SpeedTour (Round 4 of 12)
Series: Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli
Division: Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series
Location: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California
Layout: 2.238-mile, 11-turn road course
Format: 45 laps or 75 minutes
Weather: Overcast, low-50s
TA2 Winner: Rafa Matos of Silver Hare Racing
TeamSLR:
Tristan McKee – Started 3rd, Finished 6th (Running, completed 40/40 laps)
Barry Boes – Started 8th, Finished 26th (Accident, completed 29/40 laps)
M1 Racecars:
Brody Goble – Started 7th, Finished 2nd (Running, completed 40/40 laps)
Jared Odrick – Started 19th, Finished 5th (Running, completed 40/40 laps)
Tim Carroll – Started 15th, Finished 21st (Accident, completed 39/40 laps)
Mike Skeen – Started 2nd, Finished 24th (Running, completed 39/40 laps)
Noteworthy:
In his sixth TA2 start, and just one week removed from his first career TA2 podium at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway, the 14-year-old McKee was holding solid position in the top-three when contact from behind entering the track’s famed Corkscrew with 11 laps remaining sent him into a spin and to the back of the 32-car field. He rallied for a sixth-place finish.
Boes was holding a commanding lead in the Pro-Am Challenge class when he was caught up in the same incident, damaging his suspension and ending his day early.
M1 Racecars driver Odrick’s fifth-place overall finish in the No. 00 Chevrolet Camaro netted the victory in the Pro-Am Challenge class.
Goble, the 2023 TA2 Western Championship title winner, won the class for the second time in four races in his No. 69 M1 Racecars chassis and finished second overall on the national series podium.
Skeen, who qualified second in his No. 2 Guthrie’s Garage/M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro, earned the Omologato Fastest Lap of the Race award. Skeen was making a pass for the lead in the latter stages of the race when he was spun off track and into a gravel trap, dropping him off the lead lap.
Tristan McKee, Driver, No. 28 Spire Gainbridge/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:
“It was a good learning experience. We started third but fell back to around sixth or so and rallied our way back to the top-three on the next restart. Held position there for pretty much the rest of the race until we got wrecked going into the Corkscrew and we had to go to the back. From there, we ended up coming back finish sixth. But it was a good weekend, our Spire/Gainbridge Camaro was pretty solid. We’ve still got some things to work on, but I think it was really good for me not seeing the track before in a TA2 car. We’ve just got to keep improving, keep testing. I want to thank all the TeamSLR guys who give me a good racecar.”
Barry Boes, Driver No. 27 Accio Data/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:
“It was an unfortunate end to what could have been our second solid weekend in a row here on the West Coast. We qualified eighth overall, which is really good, but not surprising as I typically start strong in the initial sessions of a weekend, and here we only had a 25-minute practice before we qualified. The race was going pretty much according to plan, I was leading in Pro-Am, and all of a sudden came upon an incident at the Corkscrew and sustained damage that didn’t allow us to continue. It’s a shame after we got our first Pro-Am win last weekend at Sonoma, but I am happy for our M1 Racecars teammate Brody Goble, who was first in the Western Championship race and on the overall national podium.”
Next Up:
The Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series resumes three weeks hence with round five, the annual Trans Am Memorial Day classic, at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut, May 23-24. The weekend begins with a pair of TA2 test sessions at 10:05 a.m. EDT and 1:05 p.m. Friday (May 23), followed by official TA2 practice at 5:15 p.m. Qualifying is slated for 9:05 a.m. Saturday (May 24), followed by the 68-lap, 75-minute race around the 1.478-mile, seven-turn circuit at 2 p.m. Live streaming video of the race will be provided by Speed Sport 1, with simulcast coverage on the Trans Am channel on YouTube.
