Laguna Seca Race Report
April 30-May 2, 2021
Location: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (2.238-mile road course)
Series: SVRA Groups 6 and 10, Trans Am 2
Driver: Scott Borchetta
SVRA: It was a busy weekend for Scott Borchetta in SVRA competition as he competed in both the Group 6 and Group 10 feature events over the course of Saturday and Sunday at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. He continued his dominating season in Group 6, once again sweeping the weekend and extending his win total to 10 on the year in his 1969 Chevrolet Corvette. In the two Group 10 races, Borchetta drove his 1981 Buick Regal to sixth and third-place finishes, respectively, and first in the Stock Car Division.
Trans Am 2: Borchetta drove an impressive TA2 race on Saturday afternoon, earning his fourth top-10 finish of the season in the No. 48 Big Machine Vodka Spiked Coolers Ford Mustang. He was up against some tough competition with a stacked 33-car field. Starting the race in the 16th position, he steadily worked his way forward and entered the top 10 before a full-course caution came out on lap 13. Borchetta restarted in ninth and continued his climb forward, jumping to seventh on lap 21. Just a couple laps later he battled hard with the No. 8 of rising star and JR Motorsports driver Sam Mayer to maintain his track position, ultimately settling back into eighth. As the laps wound down Borchetta was closing back in on the seventh position, but he ran out of time in the 43-lap feature event and took the checkered flag in eighth.
Scott Borchetta, SVRA and Trans Am 2 Driver
“The California swing for Trans Am & SVRA was a great test of character and grit for the team and, man, did they deliver. The ’69 Corvette was a joy to drive at both Sonoma and Laguna Seca, tracks we’ve never raced before, and the 1981 Marty Robbins/Darrell Waltrip Buick Regal turned heads each time it was on the track. Fans and drivers alike just don’t expect that classic Banjo Matthews/Junior Johnson Stock Car to be so fast, but it is, and we had exceptional runs with it, beating cars we honestly had no business beating,” said Borchetta. “Without a doubt, this weekend’s pace in the TA2 car was our best yet. We battled to the finish in the biggest TA2 field of the year and we look to carry this momentum into the month of May.”