A trio of in a single day Run Group leaders continued to roll by Saturday’s fourth and closing race segments to safe the general victories within the third annual HSR Watkins Glen Basic 6 Hour introduced by Mission Meals at Watkins Glen Worldwide. All had been first time HSR Basic 6 Hour race winners however two of three have been victorious within the current previous in HSR Basic Mission Meals races at Daytona and Sebring.
Friday featured a symbolic six hours of racing with every of the race’s featured Run Teams – A, B and C – taking to the three.377-mile Grand Prix circuit three completely different instances all through the day. Saturday’s closing rounds put the crowning contact on all three convincing victories to carry Spherical 2 of the inaugural season of the HSR Basic Endurance Championship introduced by Mission Meals to a aggressive shut.
Stealing the present and the Run Group C win was the European-based crew Iconic Racing and co-drivers Gérard Lopez and former World Endurance Champion Marcel Fässler in an ex-JDC Motorsports 2019 No. 5 Cadillac DPi. Iconic and its driver duo gained within the Cadillac within the 2023 HSR Daytona Basic 24 Hour introduced by Mission Meals and secured related success in what was the Watkins Glen debut for the crew and Lopez and Fassler.
The Iconic crew edged the same Cadillac DPi entries of Matador Motorsports and Mission Meals GMT Racing.
Defending Basic 6 Hour Run Group C race winners Pierce Marshall and Eric Foss within the Matador Motorsports 2017 No. 02 Cadillac DPi battled once more with 2024 Group C runner-ups Juan Gonzalez and three-time Rolex 24 At Daytona race winner Butch Leitzinger of their 2017 No. 81 Mission Meals GMT Racing Cadillac DPi. This yr, nonetheless, the duo fought it out for second place in Group C with the Matador squad prevailing forward of the Mission Meals crew’s third-place exhibiting.
Run Teams A and B took to The Glen circuit on the similar time and the combo produced a pair of convincing and managed victories in every division.
David Agretelis got here into the HSR Basic 6 as certainly one of three doable Mission Meals Endurance Championship repeat winners this season after incomes his first HSR Basic victory in eight years of attempting in March’s season-opening HSR Sebring Basic 12 Hour introduced by Mission Meals. He was the one one of many trio to get the job finished at The Glen, main all 4 segments Friday and Saturday for his second-straight Run Group A win this yr in his 901 Store 1972 No. 66 Porsche 911 S/T.
An identical four-segment sweep was turned in by Run Group B winners Dan Ammann and his coach and co-driver Owen Trinkler with a stable run within the Classic Racing Co. No. 91 Porsche Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport. Ammann, Trinkler and Classic Racing are all first time HSR Basic race winners.
The primary main endurance race championship within the U.S. for classic and historic sports activities automobiles, the HSR Basic Endurance Championship introduced by Mission Meals includes a year-long schedule of 4 “tribute occasions” celebrating the largest and longest-running sports activities automotive endurance races in the US.
Subsequent up on the calendar is the inaugural HSR Street Atlanta Basic 10 Hour introduced by Mission Meals at Michelin Raceway Street Atlanta, Sept. 25-28. Please go to www.HSRRace.com for extra data.
In the meantime, the full-season of HSR dash, endurance and have race championships continues at VIRginia Worldwide Raceway on the HSR VIR Historics Weekend, Sept.4-7.
