ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (June 16, 2026) – TeamSLR's four-driver lineup will finally get the chance to cross one the most iconic racetracks in all of motorsports off their respective bucket lists this weekend when the CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series returns to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course for the first time since 2019.
While the 2.439-mile, 13-turn layout that hosted Formula One’s United States Grand Prix from 2000 through 2007 will be a new experience for TeamSLR's current drivers, its co-owner Scott Lagasse Jr., and Jacob Mosler, partner in the family’s Roaring Pines Motor Club facility project in Palatka, Florida, know how to wheel their way around the Indy grand prix circuit, bringing valuable experience and even some unfinished business back for Sunday’s 42-lap, 75-minute race.
In his first of two appearances at The Brickyard for the 2018 TA2 Series race, Lagasse qualified on the front row and was fighting for the victory over the closing laps before having to settle for a runner-up finish. He returned the following year to qualify third and show promise in the early going before a mechanical issue ended his day early. Mosler drove the second TeamSLR car to a seventh-place finish from the ninth starting position in the latter race.
This weekend, TeamSLR hits town with a power-packed lineup featuring fulltime TA2 national series drivers Alon Day, Helio Meza and Lanie Buice, joined for the second time this season by part-time Pro-Am Challenge-class competitor Naz Olkhovskyi.
It’ll be the first chance for all four drivers to tackle the historic grand prix circuit, but Day, the 34-year-old from Ashdod, Israel and the most recent TA2 Series winner, has had a taste of the famed 2.5-mile, four-cornered oval that has hosted 110 Indianapolis 500s since the track opened in 1906. Day competed in the May 2012 INDY NXT (formerly Indy Lights Series) race, qualifying seventh and finishing eighth during his brief, six-race foray in that series. The driver of the No. 17 JSSI/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro enjoyed his best outing, yet, in his fifth career TA2 Series start Memorial Day weekend at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut. He qualified on the pole and had the dominant car in the race en route to his first victory and fourth consecutive podium finish. It was the first pole and victory on U.S. soil for the four-time champion and winningest driver in the history of the NASCAR Euro Series. He finished third in the season’s second round at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in March, and posted back-to-back runner-up finishes in the weekend doubleheader April 25-26 at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway.
Day’s Lime Rock win also ended the record five-race winning streak of 19-year-old Meza, the Houston native and driver of the No. 28 Alessandros Racing/Chevrolet/SLR-M1 Racecars Camaro, who was victorious in his first five career TA2 Series races dating back to last year’s season finale at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas. Meza and Day arrive at Indianapolis 1-2 in the TA2 Series championship, respectively, separated by 50 points with seven events to go in the 12-race campaign.
Buice returns to the cockpit of the No. 27 Sunoco/Guthrie’s Garage/Chevrolet/SLR-M1 Racecars Camaro after sitting out the Lime Rock weekend while recovering from the aftereffects of a Late Model accident the weekend prior. The 19-year-old from Jackson, Georgia, will be back at full strength this weekend, and she’s coming off back-to-back fifth-place ARCA Menards Series finishes June 5 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, and last Friday at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway, where she became just the seventh female driver in series history to qualify on the pole. During the Sonoma weekend doubleheader in April, Buice became the first female race winner in TA2 Series Western Championship history with her sixth-place overall finish. She was entered in both the TA2 national and Western Championship fields, which ran concurrently.
Olkhovskyi, the 39-year-old Ukraine native and driver of the No. 18 Stand With Ukraine/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro, will be making his fourth career TA2 Series start and second of the season. His most recent start came at Road Atlanta in March, where he qualified 11th among the Pro-Am Challenge competitors and drove to fourth, narrowly missing the class podium. His first two TA2 starts came last fall in back-to-back outings at Virginia International Raceway in Alton in September, and at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, in October. Olkhovskyi was a regular competitor on the European shifter kart circuit as a teen and has dabbled in various SCCA regional classes since moving to the United States in 2008.
Joining the TeamSLR contingent among this weekend’s field of 34 TA2 entries is a pair of fellow competitors in M1 Racecars equipment. Leading the way is defending CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series Pro-Am Challenge champion Jared Odrick of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and his No. 00 Black Underwear/Helium Mobile Chevrolet Camaro for Troy Benner Autosport. Odrick followed his sweep of the Sonoma doubleheader with his fourth Pro-Am victory of the season at Lime Rock last month. He’s started on the class pole in all five rounds this season. Meanwhile, Tim Carroll, a regular TA2 Western Championship competitor in recent seasons, will join the national series field this weekend behind the wheel of his No. 46 CRD MFG Inc. Chevrolet Camaro.
Riding along with TeamSLR drivers and their M1 Racecars this weekend are season-long partners Guthrie’s Garage, CUBE 3 Architecture and longtime supporters Franklin Road Apparel Company and Kallberg Racing.
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This weekend’s event kicks off Friday with a pair of TA2 test sessions set for 10:30 a.m. and 4:05 p.m. EDT. Saturday begins with official TA2 practice at 9:30 a.m., followed by qualifying at 4:15 p.m. Race time Sunday is 10:10 a.m. with live television coverage available at no charge at RacingAmerica.TV, as well as the official Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli YouTube channel (@gotransam).
Alon Day, Driver, No. 17 JSSI/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:
“I’m really looking forward to it. When I was growing up watching F1, and Indianapolis was still on the calendar, the races there were always fascinating to watch. I clearly remember (Rubens) Barrichello’s victory over (Michael) Schumacher back in 2002. So being able to race on this track now really brings me back to my childhood. Indianapolis was also the first oval race of my career. Driving 200 mph in an Indy Lights (now INDY NXT) car on my oval debut back in 2012 was one of the most amazing, yet terrifying, experiences of my career. Knowing it is one of the most prestigious tracks in the world, and especially in the U.S., makes the feeling even greater.”
How would you describe getting around the circuit from the preparation you’ve done?
“From what I’ve learned in the sim, it is probably one of the flattest racetracks I will ever drive. That means there are not too many special tricks to driving this track, unlike some of the other tracks we’ve raced at this year that had banking or elevation changes. This track will require pure driving technique and going back to basics.”
You earned your first CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series victory in just your fifth career start at Lime Rock last month. How do you feel about that, now that you’ve had some time to reflect?
”I’m just so happy to have that closure. After being so close to winning (the ARCA Menards Series race at Lime Rock) in 2025, finally grabbing the win at Lime Rock was a real moment of closure for me. And having the honor of winning that race with my sponsor and JSSI CEO Neil Book there made the victory feel even better.”
You’re staying in the U.S. between these back-to-back weekends at Indy and Road America. What will you be doing to pass the time?
“My sponsor JSSI is based in Chicago, and I would love to visit them on my way up to Wisconsin. They have been such a big part of my career and my achievements in recent years.”
Helio Meza, Driver, No. 28 Alessandros Racing/Chevrolet/SLR-M1 Racecars Camaro:
“When I first heard that I was getting to race at Indy – when I knew that I was going to run the full season – I didn’t really think too much of it at the time. I thought it was pretty cool that we’re going there, but as we’ve gotten closer, it’s almost surreal that I’m going to be driving at such a historic track. I’m super excited. Obviously, Helio Castroneves, who I’m actually named after, has a lot of history there, as well, climbing the fence after his four Indy 500 wins. So, not only getting to drive a TA2 car again, but at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, is pretty special. I’ve never gone to a race there before, so it’s pretty cool that my first time there I’ll be the one racing.”
You and your teammate Lanie Buice had the chance to test at Indy with the MX-5 Cup competitors earlier this year. What are your impressions of getting around the circuit?
“It felt pretty straightforward to me. With those cars, the name of the game is bump drafting and using the draft to your advantage, so I got to run around a lot of cars. It’s kind of hard to say how well the TA2 cars will race there, but in the MX-5 Cup cars, there is a lot of passing going on. I want to say almost every corner we were able to pass. The TA2 car, having a little bit more horsepower and a little bit of aero kind of coming into the mix, it’ll be a little bit different. But the track’s really smooth, really flat. I would say it’s just as flat as Sebring, but the smooth version of it. It has some technical corners, and then is obviously very high-speed as you get toward the end of the lap. One thing I will say is the curbs there are really, really big, so I’m interested to see how the TA2 cars will handle those. That’ll also be another tricky thing. If you ever want to cross anyone up or do an over-under on anyone, you’ll be kind of forced to clip some of the curbs. Whoever’s cars can absorb the curbs will have more opportunities to pass.”
Your five-race win streak came to an end at Lime Rock last month. How did that strike you?
“At the start of the race, it looked really promising, got to the lead really early. Then we had that early caution, and in that moment I was thinking we’re back to the front and just had to focus and do our thing. On the second restart, I just really didn’t have any momentum. I’m sure there’s a lot of stuff that I could have done differently, done better, but to me it felt like something was a little off. Immediately after the race, I went to work, kind of looked at onboard (video) and data, just trying to figure out what I could do better. But, all in all, I still enjoyed the race a lot. I mean, it was really cool to be able to drive those cars in the wet. They’re really challenging with the horsepower that we have and, really, it’s just like you’re on ice. So just trying to manage lapped traffic is an extra challenge in the wet when people are trying to hold on for dear life. Obviously, after the race I was a little bummed out, not necessarily because I didn’t win the race, but just because I felt off the pace and in the moment I didn’t really know why. I was definitely super happy for Alon. He’s definitely been on my tail all year long.”
Lanie Buice, Driver, No. 27 Sunoco/Guthrie’s Garage/Chevrolet/SLR-M1 Racecars Camaro:
“I feel like it’s going to be a lot of fun. I got to test an MX-5 Cup car there and the track is really neat. It’s cool to be at Indy, in general, and to be able to run that road course. It’s really iconic and I’m excited for the opportunity. I have a little bit of an idea of what the track is going to be like for us, so I feel like I’ve set myself up well to be there for the first time with Trans Am in TA2. I’m just going into it with a really open mind. I feel like the track is really unique. It seems kind of small compared to the other tracks I’ve been to so far, so that’s going to be interesting.”
Between your test there and the preparation you’ve done in the simulator, how would you describe what it takes to get around the circuit?
“I actually think it will be similar to what Lime Rock was based on the preparation – similar in the sense that it’s smaller, not a lot of room to pass. It’s kind of flat like Sebring. The nice thing about Indy is it has newer asphalt. It’s going to be a cool place to race, and I think it’ll be a good learning experience for me. I tend to do better at the tracks that have a little bit more banking, but I’ve been trying to prep myself in the best way I can. Coming into this weekend off back-to-back ARCA races at Michigan and Pocono is going to be really good, as well.”
How difficult was it for you to have to sit out the Lime Rock race after the accident in the Late Model race the week prior?
“Unfortunately, I am aware that those things happen, and I think taking the right protocol to deal with a concussion, anything of that sense, is super important and it’s going to matter down the road. It was the best decision for myself, and I’m thankful for all the help from the people around me to make sure that I could get back to 100 percent. It was also really, really hard to sit out and have to watch Lime Rock. But I feel like it kind of opened my eyes up about appreciating things more and appreciating when my body is 100 percent and when it’s working correctly. Honestly, it’s made me a better person, and I think it kind of made me work even harder. I worked hard before, but I think I’m even more focused now just because I’ve realized that I love what I do and I don’t want to miss a single thing. So I think making sure that I’m working as hard as possible and not leaving anything on the table is the only way to kind of make that possible.”
Naz Olkhovskyi, Driver, No. 18 Stand With Ukraine/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:
“It has always been on my bucket list to race there one day. I’ve worked toward this and finally it’s happening. Finally, the Indy grand prix circuit is back on the Trans Am schedule and I’m super excited. I know a lot of people were waiting for this to happen and we’ll see a pickup in car count, I think, because of that. Growing up in Europe, I always knew about that place because of the Indy 500, and it used to have an F1 race. It’s safe, it’s fast, it has rhythm to it, that’s why everybody loves it.”
You came away from your last race at Road Atlanta with a near podium in the Pro-Am class and 13th-place finish overall from 30th on the starting grid. How do you look to build on that result this weekend?
“That result was mostly because I took it easy. I had a safe approach – stay away from the trouble, bring the car home in one piece. I did that and it paid off. This is going to be exactly the same at Indianapolis – take it easy, stay safe. We don’t need to upset anybody. I’m just out there to have fun and learn at this point.”
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