The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Firm (Goodyear) and Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) in the present day introduced a multi-year settlement that may see longtime NASCAR official tire accomplice, Goodyear, grow to be a proud accomplice of HSR. Inside the new settlement, Goodyear has been named the presenting sponsor of the HSR NASCAR Traditional, to now be named the HSR NASCAR Traditional offered by Goodyear, and the official “spec” tire for HSR NASCAR Traditional races.
Goodyear’s legacy in motorsports spans greater than 100 years, with its first official NASCAR tire take a look at in 1954. Since then, NASCAR has served as an important proving floor for generations of Goodyear tires, the place engineers have pushed the boundaries of tire innovation. By means of relentless testing and growth, Goodyear continues to design, put together and provide high-performance racing tires constructed to face up to the game’s most grueling and demanding situations.
Annually, Goodyear handcrafts greater than 100,000 tires for NASCAR’s high three nationwide sequence, with each tire meticulously constructed by expert associates in Akron, Ohio. This dedication to precision and efficiency now extends past fashionable inventory automotive racing, as Goodyear’s up to date inventory automotive tire lineup is joined by its rising presence in HSR classic and historic inventory automotive racing class.
Goodyear’s position because the official “spec” tire for HSR NASCAR Traditional Races additional showcases the Goodyear model. The distinctive Wingfoot mark can be prominently featured all through the 2025 season at premier NASCAR venues together with this weekend’s Lime Rock Park occasion, Watkins Glen Worldwide, the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL, and different HSR occasions all through the season.
Launched in response to the surging recognition of the previous HSR Group 8 historic inventory automotive class, the HSR NASCAR Traditional offered by Goodyear is open to retired inventory automobiles from lively competitors. Eligible entries embrace automobiles constructed to earlier NASCAR rule e-book specs for Cup, Xfinity, Truck, and ARCA sequence. Nevertheless, current-generation automobiles — such because the Cup Sequence Era 7 chassis — will not be permitted in NASCAR Traditional competitors.
Following a profitable three-event debut in 2024, the sequence has doubled in dimension for 2025. The unique trio of tracks returns, now joined by three new venues.
The 2025 season kicked off with aggressive and colourful occasions in March on the HSR Sebring Historics at Sebring Worldwide Raceway and in April on the forty seventh HSR The Mity offered by Hagerty at Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta. The remaining 4 occasions of the sequence can be run within the ultimate half of 2025.
An all-new occasion and venue on the 2025 HSR NASCAR Traditional schedule is that this weekend’s Liuna! 150, June 27 – 28, at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. NASCAR Traditional can be a featured assist sequence for that weekend’s headlining NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence race at Lime Rock.
Three of 2025’s ultimate 4 NASCAR Traditional occasions are the assist sequence races utilizing Goodyear D4409 classic inventory automotive radials on the trio of NASCAR race weekends. Lime Rock is joined on the schedule by returning inaugural-season HSR NASCAR Traditional host tracks Watkins Glen and the Charlotte ROVAL.
The HSR NASCAR Traditional on the Go Bowling at The Glen is again on that full weekend of NASCAR competitors at Watkins Glen Worldwide, August 8 – 10. This yr’s race marks the third-straight look for HSR historic inventory automobiles on the New York observe’s NASCAR weekend following final yr’s NASCAR Traditional debut and an indication race in 2023.
The third NASCAR occasion weekend on the calendar is the season-ending Financial institution of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, October 3 – 5. It is the second-straight yr Charlotte’s distinctive ROVAL race wraps up the NASCAR Traditional season.
In between The Glen and Charlotte rounds is a NASCAR Traditional return go to to VIRginia Worldwide Raceway (VIR) in September. The NASCAR Traditional sequence debut race came about on the Southern Virginia observe ultimately yr’s IMSA Michelin GT Problem and shifts this yr to the HSR VIR Historics, which is the primary HSR full-series occasion on the observe since 2017.
Stu Grant, Basic Supervisor, International Race Tires for Goodyear: “Goodyear has all the time considered motorsports as the final word testing floor for our tires and know-how, and the HSR NASCAR Traditional is a pure extension of that legacy. We’re proud to deepen our dedication to motorsports racing by this partnership with HSR, bringing our a long time of innovation and efficiency to a brand new era of followers and opponents. The chance to assist these legendary machines with the identical ardour and precision we carry to in the present day’s NASCAR competitors is actually particular.”
John Doonan, HSR President: “Goodyear and NASCAR are synonymous of their a long time of shared and race-winning success, and Goodyear was the proper alternative to affix HSR as a proud accomplice and the presenting sponsor of the NASCAR Traditional offered by Goodyear racing sequence. That is each one other chapter for Goodyear in its 70 years of American inventory automotive racing assist and success in addition to a throwback to numerous NASCAR golden eras from days passed by. Lots of the pristinely preserved and restored HSR Historic Shares automobiles racing in NASCAR Traditional achieved race and championship-winning success of their competitors primes on Goodyear. Now, it’s time to have fun this illustrious previous whereas bringing in a brand new period of competitors success for Goodyear within the historic and classic racing sector. It’s our honor and a pleasure to welcome Goodyear to the HSR household.”
The HSR NASCAR Traditional characteristic race at Lime Rock Park is scheduled to run Saturday, June 28, from 11 – 11:30 a.m. EDT.
Extra occasion info and tickets can be found at https://limerock.com/occasions/nascar/. Tickets, which begin at $45, are additionally accessible on the gate, however followers are inspired to buy prematurely to keep away from lengthy wait occasions in ticket traces.
About Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.: Goodyear is without doubt one of the world’s largest tire firms. It employs about 72,000 individuals and manufactures its merchandise in 57 services in 23 international locations world wide. Its two Innovation Facilities in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, attempt to develop state-of-the-art services and products that set the know-how and efficiency commonplace for the trade. For extra details about Goodyear and its merchandise, go to www.goodyear.com/company.
About HSR: Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) is the premier classic and historic racing sequence in North America. It was fashioned within the mid-Nineteen Seventies with an inaugural occasion at Highway Atlanta and have become part of Worldwide Motor Sports activities Affiliation (IMSA) in 2022. There was one aim then and it stays true in the present day: to have fun and benefit from the racing automobiles from the previous. As a “time machine” of sights and sounds, HSR gives a venue for opponents and spectators alike to share within the great historical past and pleasure created by the automobiles that competed at race tracks world wide. HSR presently sanctions eight classic and historic racing occasions at among the world’s most famed race tracks, together with Daytona Worldwide Speedway, Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta, Sebring Worldwide Raceway, Watkins Glen Worldwide and extra. The whole schedule and full occasion info may be discovered on HSR’s web site at www.HSRRace.com. Search for the HSR Channel on YouTube and observe HSR on Fb at www.Fb.com/HSRrace/, on Twitter X @HSR_race and on Instagram @HistoricSportscarRacing.
