SONOMA, Calif. — Coming into this weekend’s doubleheader for the CUBE 3 Structure TA2 Collection at Sonoma Raceway, Helio Meza has gained all three of his begins within the collection.
Meza, an 18-year-old Chevrolet improvement driver from Houston, stood tall on the highest step of the Street Atlanta podium final month after his third consecutive pole-to-checkered-flag victory. The motive force of the No. 28 Alessandros Racing/Chevrolet/SLR-M1 Racecars Camaro was additionally victorious within the March 1 season opener at Sebring (Fla.) Worldwide Raceway in a followup to his victory in his first profession TA2 Collection race on the 2025 season finale Nov. 3 on the Circuit of the Americas.
The trifecta made Meza the primary driver to win his first three races within the 60-year historical past of the Trans Am Collection introduced by Pirelli.
Meza has by no means raced at Sonoma Raceway.
“From the sim and movies and onboards that I’ve watched, it has lots of elevation,” Meza mentioned. “Sometimes, all of the encounters I’ve had with tracks that I’ve by no means been to, the elevation doesn’t appear that loopy on video or TV, however once you see it in individual, it’s fairly wild, so I can think about attending to the monitor for the primary time goes to be like that. Flip one merely has loads of elevation.
“The entire monitor simply looks like a rollercoaster. You’re going up, down, up, down, all the best way all through the monitor, and then you definately get to the ultimate sector, the place it’s a flatter a part of the circuit, but it surely nonetheless has some elevation. I’m actually trying ahead to it. Clearly, lots of historical past at that monitor, just like Street Atlanta and Sebring. We’ve been prepping, working actually laborious to do the perfect that I can, so I’m actually trying ahead to seeing what we will do.”
Meza, a graduate of the Mazda MX-5 Cup Collection, is accustomed to racing twice on a single weekend.
“Yeah, I feel that’s fairly cool. Clearly, final 12 months once I drove in MX-5 Cup, that’s often what we did – we raced Saturday and Sunday – so I’m fairly used to that format,” Meza mentioned. “However, positively, I at all times just like the doubleheader weekends as a result of, let’s say you had a foul race in race one, you continue to had one thing to sit up for the subsequent day. You didn’t have to attend 4 or 5 weeks to try to redeem your self. So it’ll positively be lots of seat time this weekend, for positive.”
