Doubleheader Sweep for M1 Racecars at Portland

Canadian Brody Goble Goes Pole to Checkered Flag in Saturday and Sunday Trans Am Western Championship TA2 Victories

PORTLAND, Ore. (July 29, 2025) – For the second year in a row, M1 Racecars swept the CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series Western Championship doubleheader weekend at Portland (Ore.) International Raceway. Canadian Brody Goble, from Surrey, British Columbia, led every lap in his No. 69 Brown Bros. Ford Lincoln/M1 Racecars Mustang from pole to checkered flag in both the Saturday and Sunday races on the 1.98-mile, 12-turn circuit. He won by more than a lap in both 100-mile events, his third and fourth victories in the first five Western Championship rounds this season.

A year ago at Portland, Barry Boes and Tim Carroll drove their M1 Racecars entries to the Saturday and Sunday victories, respectively. Boes, the defending national TA2 Series Pro-Am Challenge class champion and current points leader in his second fulltime season driving for TeamSLR in the No. 27 Accio Data/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro, is the only winner other than Goble in this year’s Western Championship. Boes scored his victory from the pole in the April 26 round at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway. Goble won the season-opening round March 16 at Buttonwillow (Calif.) Raceway and the third round May 3 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca near Monterey, California.

“Everything went to plan this entire weekend,” said Goble, who won the 2023 Western Championship title with five victories and leaves Portland with a 108-point lead in this year’s championship with three races to go. “We unloaded the Brown Bros. Racing Ford Mustang from TeamSLR and M1 and we really didn’t make a ton of changes all weekend long. It was just fine-tuning on Friday in practice and qualifying and we felt like we were in a good spot. I’m super happy to win twice at what is kind of our home track. This is four-and-a-half, five hours from home, so we’ve got a massive presence here, including Brown Bros. Ford. In both races, we got raced pretty hard on the first few laps and we just kept our head down and didn’t drive it off or do anything dumb. I was especially looking forward to a good race with (second-place starter) Jack Perkins in the Sunday race but, unfortunately, he had an issue. Otherwise, it was an awesome weekend. It’s so cool to do the doubleheader and get both of them. Hats off to my team for putting me into a reliable car.”

On the national CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series front this season, M1 Racecars have scored a pair of victories at the hands of 14-year-old TeamSLR rookie driver Tristan McKee in the No. 28 Spire/Gainbridge SLR-M1 Chevrolet Camaro. The first of his career came June 22 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington and he earned his second win July 12 at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International. Veteran Mike Skeen also added a win for the TeamSLR and M1 Racecars camp June 29 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

“We’re extremely proud of the entire M1 group and the way all the teams worked together to make each other better,” said TeamSLR and M1 Racecars co-owner Scott Lagasse Jr. “We had our M1 Racecars personnel on the ground at Portland, as always, and it was a pleasure to consistently hear throughout the weekend about the teamwork and strategic thought process that went into the success on the racetrack. This is definitely a hard-working bunch and the results have been paying off.”

The CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series Western Championship resumes with rounds six and seven Oct. 10-12 at Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, California, and concludes with round eight when it joins the national series competitors at the Oct. 31-Nov. 2 season finale at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Next up for TeamSLR and the national TA2 Series is round nine Aug. 28-30 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario. McKee leads the overall driver championship by an 82-point margin with four rounds to go, while Boes holds a 42-point lead atop the Pro-Am Challenge-class standings.

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