Just below a yr after Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and North American meals trade big Mission Meals established a long-term partnership that features Mission’s sponsorship of The HSR Basic Endurance Championship introduced by Mission Meals, officers from each corporations introduced an enlargement of the settlement with the introduction of the Mission GT Problem.
The brand new HSR Mission GT Problem sequence aligns HSR’s present Group 9, Group 10 and Group 11 classes – to be recognized going ahead as Mission GT Problem – that typically cowl up to date production-based and GT Fashionable (GTM) race automobiles retired from present competitors. The whole lot from small-bore touring automobiles as much as top-level GT machines simply previous their competitors primes are welcome within the Mission GT Problem.
Expanded observe time is a part of the brand new Mission GT Problem format, and each HSR championship weekend options two dash races and a one-hour enduro, open to all eligible lessons and automobiles within the sequence. Season-long factors will likely be tabulated, together with separate rankings for the enduro races, and Mission GT Problem Champions will likely be topped on the year-end awards celebration commencing in 2026.
The Mission GT Problem idea showcasing GTM automobiles aligns completely with the HSR Prototype Problem introduced by Michelin sequence that gives an analogous area and mixture of dash and endurance races for modern-day Prototypes automobiles of all classes retired from up to date competitors.
Preliminary plans additionally embrace common Thursday night time social occasions at occasions beginning in 2026 that includes Mission Meals merchandise, which will likely be open to all HSR opponents.
The Mission GT Problem announcement was certainly one of a number of made Friday at HSR’s inaugural State of the Sport presentation at Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta. This weekend, September 26 – 28, MRRA hosts the annual HSR Fall Historics in addition to the premiere version of the brand new HSR Highway Atlanta Basic 10 Hour introduced by Mission Meals, the third spherical of the first-year HSR Basic Endurance Championship introduced by Mission Meals.
The HSR Fall Historics and HSR Basic Highway Atlanta 10 Hour introduced by Mission Meals weekend continues by Sunday. Tickets can be found at www.michelinracewayroadatlanta.com.
Juan Gonzalez, Mission Meals Chief Govt Officer: “We’re proud to increase our partnership with the HSR Basic Endurance Championship and introduce the Mission GT Problem. This enlargement is not going to solely ship extra unforgettable experiences for racers and followers alike, however it’s a sturdy testomony to our continued dedication to motorsports.”
John Doonan, HSR President: “That is the right enlargement with the right accomplice, and we won’t thank Juan Gonzalez and Mission Meals sufficient for additional believing in and supporting HSR’s mission of high quality competitors on the observe and family-first camaraderie when the racing is finished. Mission’s unimaginable assist has allowed us to align our respective fashionable Prototype and GT Fashionable (GTM) championships in two totally different sequence with a mega quantity of observe time. The HSR and Mission Meals relationship is simply starting to develop, and we sit up for a few years of a robust and profitable partnership with Mission and our different valued sponsors as nicely.”
