09/29/2026
A thank you to Matt Busby
If you’re lucky enough to know Matt, you probably know he wouldn’t let us share this. So we’re not telling him. We’re posting it anyway. Sorry, Matt.
With the Thunderhill East repave now complete, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about what went into the new surface—the engineering, the planning, the crews, the details, and the investment behind it. But there’s one part of the story we haven’t talked enough about: the vision and dedication it took to see a project of this scale through to the end.
From the beginning, Matt was deeply involved in this process. And we mean deeply. He didn’t just approve a repave and hand it off. He took the time to understand every single piece of it—from asphalt mixes and subbase conditions to drainage, curbing, tolerances, construction methods, and how every decision would ultimately affect the people using this track and our future.
Plenty of opportunities came up to make things easier, faster, or cheaper. Matt kept pushing to do it right, with no compromise on quality. That attention to detail says a lot about how Matt approaches Thunderhill as a whole.
At Thunderhill, we’re here for the long haul.
That means taking what this community gives Thunderhill and putting it right back into the facility, the racing experience, and the people who continue to make this place what it is today. The completed East repave is one of the biggest examples of that commitment—an investment in this facility’s future and the generations of racers and riders who will experience it.
Matt called this project “a very high-stakes investment into the next 50 years of Thunderhill.” Now that it’s finished, we can see just how seriously he took that responsibility every step of the way.
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And in true Matt fashion, he’d be the first to tell you this wasn’t a one-man job. The SFR SCCA board backed this project and made the investment possible. The Thunderhill staff carried out the day-to-day work of keeping the facility running while a repave of this scale happened. And the paving contractors and crews put in the engineering and physical work, the long hours, and the technical precision that got this surface built
