Brabham Takes Road Atlanta Trans Am Win for CD Racing
March 24, 2025
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (March 24, 2025) – With Chris Dyson sidelined while recovering from injuries, Matt Brabham took the wheel of Dyson’s #16 GYM WEED Ford Mustang and drove it into the GYM WEED Winner’s Circle on Saturday at Road Atlanta’s second round of the 2025 Trans Am by Pirelli.
“I’m so proud of these Dyson guys,” Brabham said after climbing from the car. “I’m hoping for a quick recovery for Chris. I know he would have loved to be out there, rather than behind the pit wall. But these cars are so much fun, I’m glad to step in whenever Chris needs me.”
“We had a really tough weekend at Sebring,” Dyson said. “In the weeks since, I was in regular therapy, actively working on healing, but I wasn’t making enough progress. I am lifetime athlete and I know what this takes; I wasn't where I needed to be. So I called Matty to get in the car. Just because I couldn’t drive here doesn't mean we don't have a rocket ship of a car. I knew we were going to have a winning machine. And I think that Matty went out and proved that.”
Brabham qualified second for the 100-mile sprint race, and then at the green flag briefly dropped to third place behind Adam Andretti. After dispatching Andretti, Brabham began running down early race leader Brent Crews, who was banging curbs and dropping wheels off on corner exits to maintain his lead over Brabham. Crews' car wouldn't survive.
Brabham later recalled that while pursuing Crews he was “saying to myself (of the speedy TA-class rookie) ‘you gotta save yourself man, you gotta save yourself. I want to have a race with you at the end. Then he dropped a wheel off and there was dust everywhere. Two laps later he was broken down.”
Brabham handily dominated the remaining 25 laps of the race, despite a pair of caution periods, including one for the final two laps of race. The win was Brabham’s sixth in a dozen starts for CD Racing over the past five seasons.
“Matty's got one of the great winning percentages in this series,” Dyson noted. “He always comes through when our team needs him." Asked about the upcoming schedule, Dyson remained cautiously optimistic about a return to action. " My hope now is I'll be able to make enough progress in the next couple weeks to get fit in and in the car again in time for the West Coast races at the end of April and beginning of May. I'm taking this one day at a time. The team made me very proud today. What a rebound for us after Sebring."
Masaood Back With CD Racing and Trans Am
After a two-season hiatus Humaid Masaood has made a successful return to the Trans Am Series in his #21 allgram Ford Mustang, rekindling an association the Dyson team that dates back nearly 15 years.
Masaood, racing for the first time since the series finale in 2022, claimed 5th place at the season-opening Sebring event last month and this weekend followed that up with a steady drive through the field for another top-5 result at Road Atlanta.
"I'm so pleased to have Humaid back with us," Dyson noted afterwards. "It's like he's never been away. He's catching right back up to the pace and driving consistently."
Masaood plans to join the team for the bulk of the 2025 National Championship series events.
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