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Helio Meza, Alon Day and Connor Mosack Start and Finish 1-2-3; Lanie Buice Takes Western Championship Class, Places Sixth Overall
Overview
Date: April 25, 2026
Event: Sonoma Doubleheader (Round 3 of 12)
Series: Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli
Division: CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series
Location: Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway
Layout: 2.52-mile, 11-turn road course
Format: 40 laps or 75 minutes
Weather: Cloudy, upper-50s
Winner: Helio Meza of TeamSLR
TeamSLR:
● Helio Meza – Started 1st, Finished 1st (Running, completed 40/40 laps)
● Alon Day – Started 2nd, Finished 2nd (Running, completed 40/40 laps)
● Connor Mosack – Started 3rd, Finished 3rd (Running, completed 40/40 laps)
● Lanie Buice – Started 6th, Finished 6th (Running, completed 40/40 laps)
M1 Racecars:
● Jared Odrick – Started 13th, Finished 11th (Running, completed 40/40 laps)
● Tim Carroll – Started 15th, Finished 20th (Running, completed 40/40 laps)
● John Moore – Started 30th, Finished 30th (Running, completed 38/40 laps)
Noteworthy:
● Meza, the 18-year-old from Houston, is now four-for-four to start his CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series career after today’s pole-to-checkered-flag victory. It led TeamSLR’s second consecutive 1-2-3 finish and 10th win in a row, dating back to 15-year-old Tristan McKee’s triumph at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington last June en route to the 2025 TA2 Series championship. It was also TeamSLR’s third 1-2-3 finish dating back to last June at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Meza was joined on the podium at the previous round March 14 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta by third-place Day and runner-up Andres Perez de Lara, the fulltime NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver who was making his first career TA2 Series start with TeamSLR.
● Day, the 34-year-old from Ashdod, Israel, improved one position from his Road Atlanta finish. The four-time NASCAR Euro Series champion made just his third career TA2 Series start Saturday.
● Mosack, the 27-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, returned to TeamSLR for the second time this season and the sixth since graduating to the NASCAR and ARCA ranks after fulltime TA2 Series seasons in 2021 and 2022. Saturday’s finish marked his ninth career TA2 Series podium in 41 starts.
● Buice, the 19-year-old from Jackson, Georgia, is a dual entry in this weekend’s field, competing both in the national series and for the first time in the TA2 Western Championship races. Her sixth-place overall finish was best in her five career TA2 Series starts, and was best among the Western Championship competitors in today’s 35-car field, making her the first female driver to win a Western Championship race.
● She moved up two positions on the starting grid for Sunday’s weekend doubleheader nightcap by virtue of the fourth-best overall race lap Saturday. Meza, Day and Mosack logged the top three race laps, respectively, giving TeamSLR a sweep of Sunday’s top four starting spots.
● Odrick, the 2025 TA2 Series Pro-Am Challenge champion, won the class for the second time in three races this season with his 11th-place finish overall in his No. 00 Black Underwear/M1 Racecars Camaro for Troy Benner Autosport. He was also victorious in the March 1 season opener at Sebring (Fla.) International Raceway.
● Two other Western Championship competitors took to the track Saturday in M1 Racecars equipment – Southern Californian Carroll in the No. 46 Carroll Racing Development Ford Mustang, and Northern Californian Moore in the JM Environmental Ford Mustang.
Helio Meza, Driver, No. 28 Alessandros Racing/Chevrolet/SLR-M1 Racecars Camaro:
“This feels really good. Man, I don’t even know what to say. This team provides for me day in and day out every weekend, and I just think it all goes to their work ethic. They work so hard – we’re always going super late even when we’re fast, we’re always trying to be better. We know that everyone else is trying to catch up with us, so we can’t get content. We’re working hard, and obviously it showed with a 1-2-3 for TeamSLR, and with Lanie winning the Western Championship race, as well, so congrats to her. It’s a team effort and I can’t thank everyone enough – Alessandros Racing, TeamSLR, Heraldo Media Group, M1 Racecars, all my family from L.A., that came up to watch me, and my brother, Alonso, for coming out. There are a lot of people that make this possible. I’m just the guy that pushes the pedals and turns left and right, so all the credit goes to everyone with me.”
Alon Day, Driver, No. 17 JSSI/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:
“This is great. I’m still jet lagging. But, it was pretty good. I mean, I’m very happy for the team, TeamSLR. We did an amazing job. For tomorrow, we are all going to be top-four for start of the race. I want to thank JSSI for giving me the opportunity to be here. We had some of their guests, their employees, here with us today and I was glad that they could be here to celebrate with us. I wish I could do better, challenge Helio a bit, but he’s been doing an amazing job. We will try to be one position better tomorrow.”
Connor Mosack, Driver, No. 48 Friends of Jaclyn/Guthrie’s Garage/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:
“It’s good to be back. I love driving these cars, and it’s always fun to be here at Sonoma. But first off, hats off to the TeamSLR guys. Obviously, they brought really fast racecars this weekend, as they have all year, so it makes my job a lot easier, really, just racing these two guys here (Helio Meza and Alon Day). Hats off to Helio, too. He’s been really fast all year and this weekend we’ve just been trying to catch him. Hopefully we can do that tomorrow.”
Lanie Buice, Driver, No. 27 Sunoco/Guthrie’s Garage/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:
“That was a lot of fun. I cannot thank TeamSLR enough, and Chevrolet and Sunoco Race Fuels and Guthrie’s Garage for the opportunity to be out here. Everybody just gave me a really good car this weekend and I’m just super grateful. Congrats to my teammates – they’re all top-three and it’s really cool to see. I’m just super proud to be a part of this. That was my first Western start, and I can’t wait to see what we can do while we’re running for that championship. My door came off on the first lap, I don’t really know what happened there. It didn’t affect me and everything turned out fine. Apparently, I didn’t really need the door. I guess you could say that I blew the door off of it (laughs).”
Next Up:
Round four of the 2026 Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series is the second race of this weekend’s Sonoma doubleheader Sunday. The 40-lap, 75-minute race around the 2.52-mile, 11-turn circuit is set for 2:10 p.m. PDT (5:10 p.m. EDT). Live streaming video will be provided by RacingAmerica.tv and the @GoTransAm page on YouTube.
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