Polewinner Connor Zilisch Leads Every Lap for the Second Race in a Row At High Point, North Carolina-based Team’s Beloved Home Track – VIR Zilisch started on the pole for the fourth time this season and the third race in a row and led all 30 laps of the race. He duplicated his feat from the series’ prior race Sept. 24 at World Wide Technology Raceway near St. Louis, where he led all 61 TA2-class laps from pole to checkered flag.
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Today’s victory was Connor Zilisch’s second in a row, his fourth of the season and the fourth of his career. He started from the pole on a grid that was set by Saturday’s practice times after weather forced officials to abort that afternoon’s qualifying session.
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HIGH POINT, N.C. (Sept. 6, 2023) – Before there was racing at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International, where the Big Machine Vodka Spiked Coolers TA2 Series will contest the 10th round of its 2023 season Sunday, there was the popular Watkins Glen Grand Prix that was contested from 1948 to 1952 on a challenging asphalt, concrete and dirt-road circuit in and around the nearby Village of Watkins Glen at the southern tip of Seneca Lake.
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Connor Zilisch Goes from Last to First for the Second Time in Five Races; 14-Year-Old TA2 Rookie Ben Maier Scores Third Top-10 of the Season
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HIGH POINT, N.C. (June 22, 2023) – After posting a pair of victories in the last four rounds of the 2023 Big Machine Vodka Spiked Coolers TA2 Series, 16-year-old Connor Zilisch can’t wait to hit the track once again in his No. 7 Silver Hare Racing Chevrolet Camaro for this weekend’s 3-Dimensional Services Group Classic at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington.
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Connor Zilisch earned the pole for Sunday’s second race of the weekend by virtue of his fastest race lap Saturday. But a technical disqualification sent Zilisch to the rear of the 28-car starting grid for the race.
Read MoreIf Friday night’s Hoosier Hundred had been a standard 100-lap affair, the closing scene very well might’ve been played out to a completely different ending for Bobby Santos. However, at a distance of 146 laps and 100 miles, this one at Indiana’s Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park was anything but standard no matter which way you dissect it.
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HIGH POINT, N.C. (May 23, 2023) – The most recent race winner on the 2023 Big Machine Vodka Spiked Coolers TA2 Series tour, Silver Hare Racing’s Connor Zilisch, has been itching to get back on the Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli trail since he captured his first career TA2-class victory March 26 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
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Sunday’s victory was Silver Hare Racing’s second in the Big Machine Vodka Spiked Coolers TA2 Series. Its first win came on Nov. 8, 2020 at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas, with driver Rafa Matos.
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HIGH POINT, N.C. (March 8, 2023) – Silver Hare Racing’s pair of young drivers Connor Zilisch and Ben Maier were just 9 and 7 years old, respectively, when the Trans Am Series by Pirelli last raced at NOLA Motorsports Park in Avondale, Louisiana, in 2016. Zilisch, now 16, and Maier, now 14, will get their chance along with the rest of their Big Machine Vodka Spiked Coolers TA2 Series competitors when they take to the 2.75-mile, 16-turn road course on the outskirts of “The Big Easy” during this weekend’s New…
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