Trevor Krouse of Gorham recently won a World Championship in Legend Car Racing on a road course at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The TK Racing team set their sights on competing in the U.S. Legend Cars International Course Semi Pro Championship hosted by New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The season began in early December and ran through the first week of October.
The TK Racing team shared, “Legend cars are governed by the INEX Series, where drivers can compete for National Points in any INEX sanctioned event worldwide. There are ample opportunities for drivers to race anywhere from the west coast to the east coast including several tracks in Canada and Europe.”
The TK team traveled to Florida and North Carolina to race in the months of January and February. Prior to winter travel, TK ran eleven road course races with Granite State Legend cars in New Hampshire, compiling one 2nd place finish and eight 1st place finishes. This put Krouse in first place in World Points with a 12-point advantage over a driver from North Carolina (Heather Hadley).
The preparations began Thursday October 13, with the team settling in for the long weekend ahead, trying to beat the rain. Legend cars have rain tires, and the team was unsure if they would practice. With torrential rain and wind gusts throughout Friday, officials decided it was unsafe and therefore instead of five practice sessions, there would only be one.
Practice resumed Saturday morning. Track “jet dryers” were used to “speed up” getting in a practice. At the midday mark, the event started time trials. Drivers lined up for their Heat races based on the fastest cars starting first. Krouse made his way from seventh fastest in Lap one, up to first place by Lap four, improving his own time by eight tenths of a second.
Nobody in the field would beat his time in the final two laps, including Canadian Driver, Danny Chisholm. This landed Trevor on the pole, starting first, for Heat Race #1 later that day. The semi–Pro Division had 32 entries with heats split into three races.
Krouse and a driver from Finland battled, along with a driver from North Carolina. Later that evening, it was announced that Krouse had made the cut and would start on the pole for the feature race on Sunday.
As the feature race began, Krouse was raced out in turn one that put him in third to start the 12 turn (1.4 mile) track. The 1st and 2nd place leaders got “into each other” on lap four. Krouse and Dino Lambros (from New York) avoided the “spins” and came out as the new leaders. For the next eight laps Krouse and Lambros were too close for comfort, Lambros not able to lose Krouse.
With a dramatic finish, Krouse maneuvered around a “second” spin out of drivers.
The team enthusiastically shared, “On the last lap, Trevor’s car again gave him trouble on turn three and the third-place car of Ojaranta got by him going up the hill. As they came down the hill the final time with turns 10, 11, and 12 in sight, the second-place car doing all he could to beat the leader, got in to him and spun them both. Trevor maneuvered around both and came home with the checkered flag.”
Krouse wrapped up the 2022 season with five titles. Congratulations to Trevor and the TK racing team.