Having never been behind the wheel of a Trans Am TA2 car before this season, rookie Thad Moffitt is turning heads in the Trans Am TA2 championship. Coming off a second-place finish on the tough streets of Detroit, Moffitt and his No. 43 TeamSLR team are currently 12th in the championship chase. He is only 11 points out of 10th.
Moffitt started the season in his Safety-Kleen No. 43 Chevrolet Camaro with three consecutive top-12 finishes at tracks that he’d never been to. Those included races at Sebring, New Orleans and Road Atlanta- where Moffitt welcomed new primary partner, Victory Impact. The quick start to the season had Moffitt in the top-10 in championship standings and one of the top young guns and rookies in the series full of road course specialists.
“We really should have had three top-10 finishes if we had any luck to begin our season,” stated Moffitt. “But we were fast and our TeamSLR team was really helping me get comfortable with the car and these races. The fields are 40-plus cars at times. There is a ton of tough competition and we came out with a pretty good start considering some of the bad luck.”
Still fast, Moffitt qualified 13th at Lime Rock Park, but was crashed and left with a 29th-place result. During the Detroit doubleheader, Moffitt and the team had more bad luck to start the weekend after cutting a tire in the first race. However, the next day Moffitt and TeamSLR rebounded to compete for the win and finish second. Moffitt jumped to third in the rookie standings and seventh of the “Young Guns” in the series.
“It was awesome to finish second in Detroit,” continued Moffitt. “It finally gave us the finish we felt like we deserved. We’ve been fast and I feel that we’re only going to be better throughout the summer. Our goal is to win a race and get back higher in the points.”
In his first season in the Trans Am Series, Moffitt continues his climb to the top of professional motorsports. The 22-year-old is in his first full season competing for a championship. Incredibly, Moffit finished fourth in the ARCA Menards Series in 2021 after running only 16 of the 20 events. In 2022, Moffit returned to the series for one race and finished fourth at the Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway and made his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut at the Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway where he finished 18th.
Off the track, Moffitt has built marketing partnerships with some of the best and most trusted brands in the country including Clean Harbors, Customers Bank, Folsom’s Honey, Petty’s Garage, Safety-Kleen and Victory Impact.
Moffitt and TeamSLR will next compete at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course beginning on June 22.
TIL NEXT TIME, I AM STILL WORKING ON MY REDNECK!
