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14-Year-Old TA2 Rookie Leads Every Lap at Mid-Ohio To Become Second-Youngest Winner in Trans Am History; Electrical Gremlin Foils Barry Boes’ Bid; Contact Ends Day for First-Time TA2 Polesitter Corey Day; M1 Racecars’ Jared Odrick Wins Pro-Am Class
Overview
Date: June 22, 2025
Event: Mid-Ohio SpeedTour (Round 6 of 12)
Series: Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli
Division: Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series
Location: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington
Layout: 2.258-mile, 13-turn road course
Format: 45 laps or 75 minutes
Weather: Sunny, low-90s
TA2 Winner: Tristan McKee of TeamSLR
TeamSLR:
- Tristan McKee – Started 2nd, Finished 1st (Running, completed 42/42 laps)
- Barry Boes – Started 3rd, Finished 15th (Running, completed 41/42 laps)
- Corey Day – Started 1st, Finished 22nd (Suspension, completed 27/42 laps)
M1 Racecars:
- Jared Odrick – Started 16th, Finished 8th (Running, completed 42/42 laps)
Noteworthy:
- In just his eighth career TA2 start, the 14-year-old McKee became the second-youngest winner in series history at 14 years, 10 months and 19 days. Only Brent Crews, who won the June 2022 race at Road America at the age of 14 years, three months and four days, was younger.
- McKee qualified second and went on to lead all 42 laps of the 75-minute race, beating three-time TA2 champion Rafa Matos across the finish line by a margin of 2.088 seconds. It was McKee’s fourth consecutive podium result and extended his lead atop the TA2 driver championship at the halfway point of the season.
- After qualifying a TA2 career-high third overall, Boes, the defending Pro-Am Challenge champion, ran in the top-three for the majority of the race before an electrical issue brought him to pit lane and dropped him off the lead lap. He finished seventh among the Pro-Am competitors.
- Day, the 19-year-old Hendrick Motorsports driver, qualified on the pole in just his third career TA2 race, dating back to this year’s season-opener at Sebring (Fla.) International Raceway. He dropped to 15th place after a brief off-course excursion on the opening lap but battled his way back into the top-10 before contact with another car caused irreparable suspension damage 27 laps into the race.
- M1 Racecars driver Jared Odrick won the Pro-Am Challenge class for the second time this season in his No. 00 Black Underwear/CoolBoxx Chevrolet Camaro for Troy Benner Autosport. He started the weekend second in the class championship, 26 points behind Boes.
Tristan McKee, Driver, No. 28 Spire Gainbridge/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:
“It was phenomenal. We led every lap and felt like we pretty much dominated, so it was a really good race. I have to thank Scott Lagasse Jr., and all the TeamSLR M1 Racecars guys. They brought really good cars for all of us. We qualified 1-2-3 and ran there pretty much the whole weekend, so they did a great job preparing these cars. They came off the trailer really fast and stayed fast all weekend. So, all props to them. I did a lot of studying and preparation for this race and it really paid off, so I definitely want to thank Josh Wise and Scott Speed at Chevrolet, and Spire Motorsports and Gainbridge and, once again, all the SLR crew.”
Barry Boes, Driver No. 27 Accio Data/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:
“The was the absolute best race I’ve ever had in my entire life, even though we had that electrical issue. We qualified third overall, which was by far my best starting spot ever, and Tristan (McKee) and I ended up running first and second by the end of the first lap. We were running away from the field and it felt fantastic. On the second restart, I was a little bit too conservative and Rafa (Matos) was able to get around me, but he raced me very cleanly, and (Thomas) Annunziata also raced me very cleanly when he was around me at the start. I really appreciated those guys giving me that kind of respect. I had to come in to see about the electrical issue, but even down on power a bit, I was still passing cars, which felt amazing. It just says something about how incredible these M1 Racecars are.”
Corey Day, Driver No. 17 HendrickCars.com/SLR-M1 Racecars Chevrolet Camaro:
“The overall weekend was great. TeamSLR gave me a really fast HendrickCars.com Camaro. We qualified on the pole and the team got the top three spots on the grid. I just need to continue working on the racing part. At the very start, I just missed going into first gear and went off. Just rolling in neutral, I couldn’t slow it down enough without the motor helping to slow me down, so it was a rookie mistake and those are going to happen. As for what ended our day, there was contact that did some damage to the right-front suspension. There’s a gray area where I’ve got to figure out what’s clean and what’s not in this type of racing. It’ll come, the more we do it. Overall, it was a good weekend.”
Next Up
Round seven of the 2025 Cube 3 Architecture TA2 Series campaign is the Road America SpeedTour next weekend (June 27-29) at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The three-day event begins Friday (June 27) with a pair of TA2 test sessions at 11:30 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. CDT. Official TA2 practice is set for 10:25 a.m. Saturday (June 28), followed by TA2 qualifying at 3:30 p.m. Race time Sunday (June 29) for the 25-lap, 75-minute main event around the 4.04-mile, 14-turn circuit is 1:05 p.m., with live video provided by series partner Speed Sport 1, augmented by simulcast coverage on the Trans Am channel on YouTube.
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