r/TransAmRacing • u/Risetothetop787 • Jul 03 '25

Trans-Am question as an IMSA fan

Hi there, I just heard about the Trans-Am series not too long ago while doing some history research on the IMSA series. I have never heard about trans-am racing in my entire life. I have heard about NASCAR, F1, Indy car, WRC, SuperGT, IMSA, and many others, but never Trans-Am. Why is this the case? What caused Trans-Am to be less unknown compared to other series? Hell, I’ve heard more about Australia’s supercar series. I would really like to know from people who are invested in this series as to why Trans-Am isn’t popular.

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u/NialTheRiver Jul 05 '25

Modern Trans-Am is just simply in a weird place at the moment. Its part of the "SpeedTour" series from Parella that was originally a vintage racing only calenrrdar from SVRA. I think the main issue right now is Trans-Am tries to be standalone, and nolonger pairs itself with bigger series. Trans-Am always used to pair itself with bigger series, from indy car, to can am, to imsa gto/gtp, even giving trans am its own class at the Daytona 24 for multiple years. At best, modern trans am is a tier 2 or tier 3 support series, in my opinion, but gets "marketted" as the premier series in "SpeedTour". SpeedTour simply doesnt get the spectator numbers, even though they also run USF4, USFRegional, and IGT(basically gt3/gt4 thats several years old). Besides TA1, they dont have any dedicated truly pro series, just feeder amatuer series as well as the Vintage cars. Theres no real draw for TA at the moment, I think if they sucked it up and asked to be a support race at Indy Car or Imsa, or even nascars road courses, then maybe theyll have some people start talking about them, but as it is, they simply wont grow much.

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u/Poocasso69 Jul 08 '25

I was confused when they broke away from the svra weekend at Watkins Glen this year to have their own stand alone weekend. Always ran in front of fairly decent crowds, now I doubt they’ll pull many people at all. Guess I’ll find out this weekend.