Dyson Aims for Trans Am Race Wins at Mid-Ohio and Road America
June 17, 2025
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (June 17, 2025) – You would be forgiven for perhaps entertaining the notion that if it weren’t bad luck this season, three-time Trans Am champion Chris Dyson would hardly have any luck at all. Hot off a dominating win at Laguna Seca last month, Dyson was handily leading the Memorial Day weekend race at his home track, Lime Rock Park, in his #16 GYM WEED Ford Mustang when he got taken out while lapping a backmarker. Dyson’s car was substantially damaged as it caromed off the barriers on both sides of the track and while Dyson wasn’t seriously injured he was a bit banged up.
“It was really a shame that happened,” Dyson said, looking back for a moment before turning to the next pair of races on the schedule, at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course this Saturday and Wisconsin’s Road America a week later. “Mid-Ohio and Road America present different challenges for a driver, but they are both favorites of mine and we’ve done well there in every series we’ve competed in, particularly in Trans Am.”
“The team has put the #16 GYM WEED car back together, good as new,” Dyson continued, “and while I still have a few aches from the crash, I’m confident my fitness will be back where it needs to be. I know the series’ points (structure) means that for all intents and purposes the championship is now out of reach. But there are seven races left. Despite our misfortunes along the way, every time the green flag has dropped, we’ve been potential winners. We are turning the page; the goal is to win as many of those seven remaining races as possible.”
Dyson has won twice at Mid-Ohio in Trans Am, 2023 and ’21, and never been off the podium in the past six races.
Dyson has a pair of Trans Am wins at Road America, in 2020 and 2021. He's also scored multiple IMSA wins coupled with a Pirelli World Challenge triumph at the famed Wisconsin road course.
"I have so many positive memories of both tracks, and I use those experiences to frame my mindset coming into race weekends – especially coming out of the sort of event we had at Lime Rock,” Dyson reflected. “Fortunately, when I think about Road America and Mid-Ohio, the results have more often than not been very strong for the team and for me. And I just enjoy driving them both so much. When it's hard to pick your best memories from a venue, you know it's been very good to you."
CD Racing To Field Multiple Entries For Remainer of 2025
The team plans on campaigning two entries at each round of the Trans Am tour. Matthew Brabham, who headed a team 1-2 in the 2022 edition of the Mid-Ohio race, returns to the cockpit hoping for more success in the #21 entry around the hills of Lexington, Ohio. Humaid Masaood, who scored top-five finishes in each of the season's first two rounds, is scheduled to rejoin the team in his #21 at Road America, where he last competed with the Dyson Racing Team in 2011.
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Mid-Ohio Schedule
Qualifying takes place Friday, June 20, 5:35 – 5:50 PM ET
The 100-mile race takes the green flag Saturday, June 21, at 12:35 PM ET
Road America Schedule
Qualifying takes place Friday, June 27, 3:50 – 4:05 PM CT (4:50 – 5:05 ET)
The 100-mile race takes the green flag Saturday, June 28, at 12:35 PM CT (1:35 PM ET)
Broadcast Schedule
The race will be live-streamed on both SpeedTour.TV and the SpeedTour TV YouTube channel.
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