Menard, Meza to start TA, TA2 season finales from COTA pole

Practice for the Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli’s TA/GT classes at the season finale Mission Foods COTA SpeedTour will set the grid at Circuit of The Americas. Lightning in the area forced the cancelation of qualifying. Paul Menard (No. 3 Pittsburgh Paints/Menards Ford Mustang) will lead the field to green after he was fastest in practice with a time of 2m05.081s.

Joshua Carlson (No. 36 Enseva/Diercks Ltd./TC Fab Ford Mustang) will line up first in the SGT Class for the National Championship, while Rene Molina Jr. (No. 09 Rene Molina Racing Dodge Challenger) will be first for the class in the Western Championship. Jake Latham (No. 27 Coffey Motorsports/Traffic Grafix Maserati MC GT4) will be first in GT, and Jon DeGaynor (No. 04 Speed Dream’n Racing Ford Mustang) will be first in GT1 Challenge.

Helio Meza (No. 27 Alessandros Racing/Chevrolet/SLR-M1 Chevrolet Camaro), who is making his CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series debut this weekend, will take the green flag from the point position in Sunday's Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli’s CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series race after laying down a practice time of 2m09.432s.

John Atwell (No. 02 XRC/DFW Concrete/AJ Lap Portal Ford Mustang) will start first of the Pro/Am Challenge contenders, and Seamus McKendree (No. 20 Nitro Motorsports Ford Mustang) will start first of the Western Championship contenders.

The Mission Foods COTA SpeedTour will be contested Sunday at 10:00 a.m. ET. It will be streamed live on Trans Am’s YouTube channel, @TheTransAmSeries, and broadcast live on SPEED SPORT 1. The Mission Foods COTA SpeedTour TA/GT race will be contested Sunday at 1:00 p.m. ET, also live on Trans Am’s YouTube and SPEED SPORT 1. An encore presentation will air on SPEED SPORT 1 Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET in a block including both series. For more information on where you can watch SPEED SPORT 1, click here.

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