WILLOWS, Calif. (October 15, 2025) – Seven races into the eight-event Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series Western Championship, competitors wheeling M1 Racecars equipment have yet to be beaten after the season’s third weekend doubleheader sweep for the car builder Saturday and Sunday at Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, California.
Canadian Brody Goble and his No. 69 Brown Bros. Racing Ford-Lincoln Mustang capped the weekend with his fifth victory of the season in Sunday’s 35-lap, 75-minute race around the 2.866-mile, 15-turn Northern California track and, in the process, clinched his second TA2 Western Championship title in the last three seasons. He became the first two-time TA2 Western Championship title winner.
The victory for the driver from Surrey, British Columbia, made amends for the electrical gremlin that snatched his bid for victory from the pole just 15 laps into the Saturday race. That Saturday misfortune opened the door for fellow M1 Racecars competitor Tim Carroll, who went on to grab his second career TA2 Series victory in his No. 46 CRDMFG.com Chevrolet Camaro.
“This was redemption for yesterday – a little bit of redemption for the boys,” said Goble, who left Thunderhill with an insurmountable 127-point lead in the championship over Mia Lovell with just the Nov. 2 season finale at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, left on the schedule. “We worked hard on the car after yesterday's parts failure. It's really nothing anybody did wrong, it's just one of those things, so I wasn't too frustrated by it. Not a whole bunch you can do but put your head down and get it back again today. Normally I’d be happy for a one-race weekend, but I'm pretty grateful that it was a doubleheader this weekend, and we can go home happy. Unfortunately, Mia had some issues today. It was a good, good battle with her all year long in the points race. I’m super thankful for Brown Bros. Racing, M1 and TeamSLR. COTA is next and we'll have some fun over there and see if we can race against the National boys and girls.”
Goble, who scored his first TA2 title behind five victories in the 2023 season, opened the season with a victory from the pole March 16 at Buttonwillow (Calif.) Raceway. He followed with a runner-up finish April 26 at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway in a race that combined TA2 Series Western and National Championship entries and was won by M1 Racecars competitor Barry Boes. The Western and National tours combined again May 2 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, where Goble was tops in the Western class with an impressive second-place finish overall. Goble singlehandedly swept the July 26-27 doubleheader weekend at Portland (Ore.) International Raceway, winning both races from the pole to set up his title-clinching weekend at Thunderhill.
Carroll qualified second for the Saturday race at Thunderhill and took the lead for good when Goble’s electrical gremlins cost him two laps for repairs on pit road.
“It was an awesome race,” said Carroll, who held off a trio of competitors on his way to the checkered flag over the final 20 laps. “We were so far off until qualifying this morning, when we did our best lap ever here, and it was just awesome. In the race, we were just coasting right behind Brody, and then he bailed off. I'm like, ‘Well, that leaves one spot left for us,’ and we were super pumped, but the tires were definitely different today. I mean, I was managing tires like crazy, but otherwise we're super pumped. This is our second win in Trans Am, and it's just great to be amongst all these awesome gentlemen to be here. Thank you so much.”
Meanwhile, the Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series national championship competitors return to the track this weekend at Barber Motorsports Park outside Birmingham, Alabama. TeamSLR and M1 Racecars are currently riding a five-race winning streak at the hands of three different drivers in lead-up to that event Sunday. Fifteen-year-old Tristan McKee and the No. 28 Spire/Gainbridge/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro scored three of the team’s five victories and holds a commanding 152-point lead atop the driver championship. Veteran Mike Skeen and 17-year-old Carson Brown drove to the other two victories for TeamSLR and M1 Racecars during the streak.
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