Workmanlike Day for TeamSLR at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

Barry Boes Scores Sixth Pro-Am Challenge Victory of 2024; 16-Year-Old Julian DaCosta Returns To Post Solid Eighth-Place Run

Overview

Date: Aug. 31, 2024

Event: CTMP SpeedTour (Round 10 of 12)

Series: Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli

Division: Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series

Location: Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario

Layout: 2.459-mile, 10-turn road course

Format: 41 laps or 75 minutes

Weather: Sunny, mid-70s

TA2 Winner: Rafa Matos of Nitro Motorsports

TeamSLR:

* Julian DaCosta – Started 6^th, Finished 8^th (Running, completed 40/40 laps)

* Barry Boes – Started 12^th, Finished 10^th (Running, completed 40/40 laps)

Noteworthy:

* Boes scored his sixth Pro-Am Challenge-class victory in 10 races this season and fourth in the last five races. He entered the weekend with a 102-point lead in the championship within a championship.

* The 16-year-old DaCosta’s eighth-place finish was his second top-10 in as many TA2 Series starts this season. He made his series debut with a 10th-place finish April 14 at NOLA Motorsports Park in Avondale, Louisiana.

Julian DaCosta, Driver No. 17 Powered by Hixon/Austin Hatcher Foundation/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:

“This track, like I said coming into this weekend, is really fun with these cars. I definitely think the lapped traffic was a bit different and we definitely ran into some issues there. But it is what it is and you’ve got to deal with it and work around it. It’s definitely different. The car worked really well. The team did a great job getting the car together. We kept it in one piece the whole race. I want to thank Powered by Hixon and the Austin Hatcher Foundation. Overall, it was a great race and the car is in one piece.”

Barry Boes, Driver No. 27 Accio Data/SLR-M1 Racecars Ford Mustang:

“I was really concerned at the start of the weekend because this is known to be a very high-risk track. I was coming into it knowing a lot of other people have been here before and I was going to have to come up to speed pretty quickly. So I did all the sim work I could with my coach and prepped myself as best as I could. And I got out there and the racetrack was pretty much what I expected it to be and I just drove it. We were fast in testing, remained fast through practice and qualifying, and the race was really about the points championship so I just put my head down and made sure I stayed first in class and not make any mistakes. The team did a fantastic job getting the car fast for qualifying and making it a good long-run car for the race. The car remained very consistent throughout the race. One of the wonderful things about these M1 Racecars is you don’t have to run them on a knife’s edge to have a car that you can drive fast. It’s just more forgiving. So it’s really not so stressful to go fast in one of these M1s and that’s very nice.”

Next Up

Next up for the 2024 Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series competitors is the VIR SpeedTour, round 11 of 12 on the season set for Oct. 3-5 at Virginia International Raceway in Alton. The three-day weekend kicks of with a pair of TA2 test sessions Thursday (Oct. 3) at 12:20 and 4:20 p.m., EDT. Official TA2 practice is set for 11 a.m. Friday (Oct. 4), followed by TA2 qualifying at 4:30 p.m. Race time Saturday (Oct. 5) for the 31-lap, 75-minute race around the 3.27-mile, 17-turn circuit is 12:35 p.m. Series partner MAVTV will provide live television coverage augmented via live video stream on the Trans Am channel on YouTube.

-TeamSLR-