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The Trans-Am Series presented by Pirelli is a sports car racing series held in North America. Founded in 1966, it is sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). Primarily based in the United States, the series competes on a variety of track types including road courses and street circuits. Trans-Am is split into the TA and TA2 classes for silhouette racing cars, while its production classes are the GT, SGT, and XGT.
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The Mission Foods Austin Speedtour called for sponsorship reasons, is a Trans-Am Race that was held for the first time in the 2015 Trans-Am Series at Circuit of the Americas and was added as an expansion to the schedule. The race is usually held on October or November in the Trans-Am Series schedule. The race is scheduled with the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association for the weekend. The West Coast Championship race has been added along the National Championship race since 2017 making Circuit of the Americas one of the tracks to host both events on the same weekend. Circuit of the Americas provided the closest finish in Trans-Am history, it was in the 2018 TA2 race when Gar Robinson passed Misha Goikhberg at the COTA Muscle Car Challenge by .064 seconds. There was another record made when 52 cars field the 2021 COTA TA2 race. The track has been part of two championships clinching races in the TA2 class. COTA has hosted once the season finale and that was in 2021. The race is held under The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli name, it is sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing owned by Parella Motorsports Holdings (PMH)
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Thomas Merrill is an American racing driver who competes in the Trans-Am Series and Porsche Carrera Cup North America.
Austin Green is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the SCCA Trans-Am TA2 Pro Am Series, driving the No. 89 Ford Mustang/Chevrolet Camaro for Peterson Racing Group and part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 32 Chevrolet Camaro for Jordan Anderson Racing. He is the son of former NASCAR driver and current official, David Green and nephew of Jeff Green and Mark Green.
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