| – Atlanta Fall Historics Brings HSR Back to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta for Second Time this Season, September 26 – 29 – HSR Classic Daytona and HSR Classic Sebring 12 Hour Close Out 2019 Season in November and December BRASELTON, Georgia (September 26, 2018) – Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) returns to action this weekend for its second and final appearance of the season at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, September 26 – 29. The full weekend of competition on the 2.54-mile road course North of Atlanta kicks-off HSR’s final stretch of 2019 races that features some of HSR’s most popular events and venues that are favorites of both race fans and competitors alike from around the world. The HSR Atlanta Fall Historics is the first of three race weekends closing out the 2019 calendar of events. The season concludes for the third-straight year with back-to-back runnings of the HSR Classic Daytona presented by IMSA in November and the Classic Sebring 12 Hour, Pistons and Props, presented by the Alan Jay Automotive Network, this December. It all starts this weekend in Georgia, however, where on-track competitor battles will be renewed and off-track camaraderie rekindled after a more than two-month late-summer break. Following today’s test sessions, Friday’s opening-day of official competition will be capped by a Friday Night Social at the Lucky Dog Race Shop, an automotive and motorsports showplace just across the street from Road Atlanta owned by the evening’s host, HSR competitor Jerry Peters. The event is open to all registered competitors. Returning to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta following last April’s 42nd HSR Mitty, a jam-packed HSR schedule of Atlanta Fall Historics events includes five feature races and the always exciting WeatherTech Sprint races for all run groups in the usual Saturday/Sunday doubleheader format. The feature-race lineup includes two B.R.M. Chronographes Enduro Challenges, Friday’s weekend-opening SascoSports International/American Challenge sprint and Sunday’s HSR Global GT and HSR Classic RS Cup races. The one-hour B.R.M. Enduros are home to specific and period-matching groups of race cars. Saturday’s Vintage and GT Classic (GTC) race features a variety of cars from the 1960s and ’70s while Sunday’s Historic, Prototype and GT Modern (GTM) B.R.M. race is home to race cars from primarily this century. Friday’s Sasco Sports race is a production-car showcase of big-bore American iron going head-to-head with top sports cars from Europe and beyond. The flat-out sprint has competitors racing for the overall win in addition to top-three honors in the International, American and Porsche classes. The popular HSR Global GT and HSR Classic RS Cup series share the track in a dual-feature sprint race Sunday afternoon. Global GT showcases contemporary but retired GT racing machines while the Classic RS Cup rekindles the thrill of the original 1970’s International Race of Champions (IROC) Porsche series. In addition to weekend spectator tickets, camping is available and a great trackside way to take in all of the HSR racing action. Fans also have a chance to drive their own cars on Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in the popular Track Touring program available Saturday and Sunday. Just Track It will also be in operation all three days of the Atlanta Fall Historics, offering their more experienced participants a comprehensive on-track program in their own cars. For HSR Atlanta Fall Historics ticket and event information, please click here. The fifth edition of the HSR Classic Daytona presented IMSA returns to Daytona International Speedway November 13 – 17. Less than three weeks later, HSR travels to Florida’s other legendary sports car course, Sebring International Raceway, for the fourth edition of the HSR Classic Sebring 12 Hour, December 4 – 8. True endurance races in their own right, the HSR Classics feature period-correct Run Groups competing in succession for 24 hours at Daytona and through the weekend at Sebring – sharing the spotlight with the vintage aircraft – in tribute to the 12-hour race. In addition to their respective Daytona 24 and Sebring 12 race schedules, the HSR Classics weekends at Daytona and Sebring feature the final rounds of the season-long HSR WeatherTech Sprint Series and HSR B.R.M. Chronographes Endurance Challenge championships. More information for all three event weekends, including Daytona and Sebring competitor entry forms and details on spectator tickets, can be found at www.HSRRace.com. About HSR: Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) was formed in the mid-1970s with an event at Road Atlanta. There was one goal then and it remains true today: to celebrate the race cars from the past. As a “time machine” of sights and sounds, HSR provides a venue for competitors and spectators alike to share in the wonderful history and excitement created by the cars that competed at race tracks around the world. HSR currently sanctions eight vintage and historic racing events at some of the world’s most renowned race tracks, including Road Atlanta, Sebring International Raceway, Daytona International Speedway and more. The complete schedule and full event information can be found on HSR’s website at www.HSRRace.com. Look for the HSR Channel on YouTube and follow HSR on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/HSRrace/ and on Twitter and Instagram at @HSR_race. A dedicated website for the Classic 24 Hour at Daytona presented by IMSA is available at www.Classic24hour.com. . |
