Lanie Buice, an 18-year-old Chevrolet development prodigy from Jackson, Georgia, made her CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series debut late last season at Virginia International Raceway in Alton, and the Circuit of the Americas (COTA). She's the fulltime driver of the No. 28 Sunoco/Guthrie's Garage/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro in 2026. Between TA2 Series events, Buice will also be contesting five races in the ARCA Menards Series this season, as well as a mix of Late Model weekly series events. Prior to this season, Buice had been a regular on the zMAX CARS Tour, competing in the Late Model Stock Car class for Lee Pulliam Performance, for whom she posted a pair of top-five finishes and five top-10s through the season’s first 13 events. Buice also made her ARCA Menards Series debut last season, driving part-time for Rev Racing. She drove to top-12 finishes in all five events she entered with best finishes of eighth at both Rockingham (N.C.) Speedway and Kansas Speedway in Kansas City. Buice began racing go-karts at the age of 10, then progressed through the Legend car ranks, winning a pair of Georgia state championships, as well as the 2022 Race of Champions in Las Vegas, followed by competition in various Late Model divisions.
Alon Day, the 34-year-old from Ashdod, Israel, brrought a diverse and highly successful racing background into his rookie CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series season behind the wheel of the No. 17 JSSI/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro. He’s the winningest driver in NASCAR Euro Series history with 32 victories to go with his championships in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022. He was on an open-wheel path at the start of his career, which featured an Israeli national karting championship and a Formula Renault Asian Championship title, followed by a six-race run in the North American-based Indy NXT Series in 2012 before the lion’s share of his attention turned to stock cars. Over the last decade, the former Athlete of the Year in his native Israel has also run a dozen races across NASCAR’s top three stateside series – Cup (two), O’Reilly Auto Parts (formerly Xfinity, four), and Craftsman Truck (two) – and the ARCA Menards Series (four). Six of those races took place at tracks he’ll visit during this year’s TA2 Series campaign.
Helio Meza, the 18-year-old from Houston, burst onto the CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series scene with TeamSLR at last year’s season finale Nov. 2 at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas, where in his series debut he drove to a pole-to-checkered-flag victory. He became the fourth driver to win a race for TeamSLR over the final seven-race stretch of the campaign, joining series champion Tristan McKee, veteran Mike Skeen, and fellow teen driver Carson Brown. Meza, driver of the No. 28 Alessandros Racing/Chevrolet/SLR-M1 Racecars Camaro, came to TeamSLR late last year after successful 2025 runs in both the NASCAR Mexico Challenge Series and Mazda MX-5 Cup. Driving for Alessandros Racing under the guidance of veteran Ruben Rovello, Meza was a two-time Mexico Challenge Series race winner. In Mazda MX-5 Cup , Meza earned Rookie of the Year honors behind a pair of runner-up finishes and another pair of top-fives that placed him fifth in the final standings. He’s also a three-time national karting champion. Like his fulltime teammate Lanie Buice, Meza is part of the Chevrolet Motorsports roster of young development drivers under the mentorship of Josh Wise, Scott Speed and Lorin Ranier.
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