Solid Sixth Overall for TeamSLR’s Barry Boes at Mid-Ohio
June 23, 2024
Sixth-Year TA2 Driver Scores Fourth Pro-Am Challenge Victory of the Season
Overview:
Date: June 22, 2024
Event: Mid-Ohio SpeedTour (Round 7 of 12)
Series: Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli
Division: Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series
Location: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington
Layout: 2.238-mile, 13-turn road course
Format: 45 laps or 75 minutes
Weather: Partly cloudy, upper-80s
Winner: Brent Crews of Nitro Motorsports
TeamSLR:
? Barry Boes – Started 9th, Finished 6th (Running, completed 45/45 laps)
Noteworthy:
? Boes’ overall finish today was his best since his third-place result in the second race of the TA2 weekend doubleheader on the streets of downtown Detroit in June 2023.
? M1Racecars driver Austin Green of Peterson Racing returned to TA2 Series competition for the first time since this year’s season-opener at Sebring (Fla.) International Raceway and promptly qualified his No. 89 Ford Mustang on the pole for today’s race. Damage from a midrace restart incident forced the team to retire his car on lap 20.
Barry Boes, Driver No. 27 Accio Data/SLR-M1 Racecars Ford Mustang:
“Overall, it was a good, solid weekend. We were top-five in all the sessions before qualifying. I learned that my mindset in qualifying, where I’m usually so focused on making sure I don’t mess up, needs to shift more toward making sure I push some limits a little bit further. So we didn’t qualify as well as we tested and practiced. But in the race, there was a lot of moving around at the start and I got a little bit held up and lost maybe three spots, which I wasn’t super happy with. But I started working, kept my head down, made up spots as best I could, and got by everybody who had gotten by me at the start. And then I just worked my way up as much as I could and ended up with a very solid and respectable finish. Hats off to these TeamSLR guys for giving me the best car I’ve ever had here at Mid-Ohio.”
Next Up:
Round eight of the 2024 Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series takes place next weekend at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The three-day Road America SpeedTour weekend kicks off with a pair of TA2 test sessions the afternoon of Thursday, June 27, at noon and 3:40 p.m. CDT. Official TA2 practice is slated for 10:20 a.m. Friday, June 28, followed by qualifying at 3:30 p.m. The 25-lap, 75-minute TA2 race around the 4.048-mile, 14-turn road course is set for 12:40 p.m. Saturday, June 29, with series partner MAVTV providing live television coverage augmented via live video stream on the Trans Am channel on YouTube.
About TeamSLR:
TeamSLR (Scott Lagasse Racing) competes fulltime in the Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli’s newly renamed Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series in a multifaceted effort that includes dedicated entries in the TA2 division, customer programs, driver coaching and car construction. Its history dates back to 1985 and covers a wide spectrum of motorsports, including NASCAR, IMSA, SCCA, ARCA and ASA. TeamSLR is a family-owned organization run by Scott Lagasse Sr., and Scott Lagasse Jr., The father-and-son duo have combined to win more than 120 races and seven championships across a variety of series and styles of racecars, from paved ovals to road courses to dirt tracks. For more information, please visit us online at www.TeamSLR.com, on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and on LinkedIn.
