{"id":409707,"date":"2026-05-03T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409707\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:23:15","slug":"ta2-news-buckley-and-slade-go-back-to-back-in-ta2-enduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409707\/","title":{"rendered":"TA2 news: Buckley and Slade go back-to-back in TA2 Enduro"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Buckley
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlice Buckley and Tim Slade have won their second consecutive TA2 Tag Team Enduro event at Queensland Raceway, taking the Sunday 40-minute race win. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

The Chevrolet Performance duo capped off an almost perfect weekend by winning the Sunday afternoon 40-minute race by 3.6s over Brodie Kostecki\/Nash Morris.<\/p>\n

Victory in both 40-minute races across the weekend earned Buckley and Slade back-to-back round wins in the Tag Team Enduro, the first pair to achieve the feat in the race\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Ben Gomersall\/Will Davison came home in third position on the track, enough to earn them third place for the round.<\/p>\n

Slade started the race flawlessly, getting the jump over Morris while the field battled for position behind.<\/p>\n

The battle in the middle of the top 10 was fierce between several cars, including Ayrton Hodson and Elliot Barbour.<\/p>\n

The pair traded blows lap after lap, with Barbour eventually being forced wide by Davison at Turn 6, resulting in a yellow card for the Bathurst winner.<\/p>\n

The sole yellow flag of the race was thrown when Cody Gillis brought the #9 Mustang to a halt in the infield, capping of a horrid weekend for he and Cameron Laws.<\/p>\n

Simultaneously, Ben Grice made his way into the pit lane with a terminal mechanical problem in the car shared with Ben Kavich.<\/p>\n

Ryan Wood raced his way into second position on the restart, while Oscar Targett slowed on the back straight.<\/p>\n

The Matt Stone Racing-prepared car shared by Targett and Chris Smerdon was side-lined with a mechanical problem.<\/p>\n

Chase Hoy brought Jackson Rice\u2019s Mustang to a halt with a suspected electrical issue.<\/p>\n

As the leaders completed their compulsory pit stops, Buckley took over the lead car and continued on in the lead.<\/p>\n

Pip Casabene took over from Ryan Wood and lost time in the pit stop, re-emerging behind Gomersall.<\/p>\n

Caleb Byers raced through to third position having taken over from Jarrod Hughes, but was caught over several laps by Casabene and Gomersall.<\/p>\n

Casabene attempted a big dive at Turn 1 in the closing laps, forcing the NZ TA2 champion off the road and across the gravel.<\/p>\n

The Walkinshaw Foundation Academy driver earned a red card for the incident and was dropped to 11th place post-race after crossing the line fourth.<\/p>\n

Brock Paine\/Brad Gartner flew under the radar to finish fourth ahead of Tyler Cheney\/Tim Brook.<\/p>\n

Cam McLeod\/Ryan MacMillan recovered after a tough start to finish sixth, ahead of Byers\/Hughes.<\/p>\n

Des Collier and Barbour recovered to stay in the top 10, finishing in eighth.<\/p>\n

Robbie Farr\/Jason Pryde came home in ninth, while uncle and nephew Jack and Tommy Smith rounded out the top 10.<\/p>\n

The TA2 Muscle Car Series returns under lights at Sydney Motorsport Park on July 17-18.<\/p>\n


\"\"\/
<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alice Buckley and Tim Slade have won their second consecutive TA2 Tag Team Enduro event at Queensland Raceway,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[152673,20730,152674,111,139,69,9335,213,175782,85663],"class_list":["post-409707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aasa","tag-alice-buckley","tag-hi-tec-oils-super-series","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot2","tag-sports","tag-ta2-muscle-cars","tag-tim-slade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}