The inaugural Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Traditional 6 Hours of The Glen got here to a protected and profitable conclusion Sunday with the primary three Run Group winners within the historical past of the latest “HSR Classics” race honored after two days of competitors on the legendary Watkins Glen Worldwide Grand Prix circuit. The Traditional 6 Hours joins the HSR Traditional Daytona 24 Hour and HSR Traditional Sebring 12 Hour because the third race within the HSR Classics triple crown and delivered in its first version this weekend the identical intense competitors and drama for which the Daytona and Sebring HSR Classics have change into identified.
One of many weekend’s most notable victories was a record-extending seventh HSR Classics win by the 1974 No. 26 Chevron B26 co-driven by automobile proprietor/driver Grey Gregory and his teammates Randy Buck and Ethan Shippert. The always-quick Chevron swept all three Run Group A rounds at The Glen over the course of Saturday and Sunday to change into the primary group and drivers to win every of the HSR Classics races at Daytona, Sebring and Watkins Glen a minimum of as soon as.
This weekend’s win at The Glen was additionally the third-consecutive HSR Classics victory for the No. 26 Chevron group and drivers after sweeping the 2022 Daytona and Sebring HSR Classics races late final 12 months. Gregory and his teammates have 4 profession HSR Traditional Sebring victories – 2018 by way of 2020 and ’22 – and a pair of HSR Traditional Daytona wins final 12 months and in 2020. Together with the Traditional 6 Hours, the seven victories are probably the most for any single group and driver lineup within the practically 10-year historical past of the HSR Classics occasions.
The largest problem for the Group A winners got here from the same 1975 No. 62 Chevron B31 of Mitchell Eitel that pressured Gregory’s No. 26 all through the occasion on the way in which to a second-place end. The ultimate podium spot went to the very best ending production-based GT automobile as Yves Scemama capped a full weekend of podium outcomes with a third-place displaying in his Arnage Motorsports 1974 No. 52 Porsche 911 IROC.
The Run Group B victory was secured by Todd Sloan in his ex-Michael Shank Racing 2006 No. 60 Riley XX Daytona Prototype. Sloan completed a strong third-place total as the highest prototype finisher in his Run Group in final November’s HSR Traditional Daytona in an identical Riley Daytona Prototype. At The Glen, Sloan stepped as much as take total Group B honors and led a one-two Riley end as David Huber and Chip Vance scored runner-up honors in a 2004 No. 10 Riley XI Daytona Prototype.
One other fast GT automobile claimed the ultimate Traditional 6 Hours podium spot. The household group of Theo Ruijgh and his son Tjebbe Ruijgh completed third total and topped the GT subject of their Alex Job Restorations 1997 No. 23 Porsche 993 RSR.
The Daytona Prototype and GT-podium pattern continued in Run Group C that noticed Dante Tornello and Hudson Historics break by way of for the general victory within the 2014 No. 80 Coyote Corvette Daytona Prototype. The win was notably candy for the Hudson Historics operation that’s based mostly in upstate New York and calls Watkins Glen a house monitor.
Dominick Incantalupo completed second in his 2014 No. 54 Roin Realty Holdings Oreca FLM09 “PC” automobile whereas Wayne West and Stanton Barrett accomplished the run of GT automobiles on all three Traditional 6 podiums with a third-place end within the Brumos-themed 2012 No. 59 Porsche 997 GT3 Cup ready by Classic Racing.
The Traditional 6 Hours race weekend additionally featured the HSR Watkins Glen Historics that had been points-paying races for HSR’s varied season-long championships. Sunday’s remaining day of competitors started with a pair of Watkins Glen Historics one-hour B.R.M. Chronographes Endurance Problem races that set the stage for the afternoon Traditional 6 finales.
Todd Treffert wrapped up a function race three-win weekend with an total and GT Traditional (GTC) victory within the first B.R.M. race in his 1974 No. 14 Speedconcepts Porsche 911 IROC ready by the 901 Store. The Classic class win in the identical race went to the DAS Sport Traditional 1988 No. 77 Porsche Turbo Cup of Colin Dougherty, who lastly reached the highest step of the rostrum after ending second and third in Glen Historics function races earlier within the weekend.
In an indication of issues to return, Tornello and Hudson Historics took the general and Prototype victory within the second B.R.M. race. The GT Fashionable (GTM) class win went to the 2018 No. 117 Ferrari 488 Problem Evo of Alexandre Lima and Pierre Kleinubing whereas Benjamin Myers earned Historic-class honors in his Wolf Motorsports 2001 No. 129 Carbir CS2 Sports activities 2000.
Subsequent up for HSR on the 2023 calendar is a return to Watkins Glen for the Inaugural HSR Inventory Vehicles at The Glen on NASCAR weekend, August 19 – 20. Previous to that, HSR returns to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for its third 12 months because the sanctioning physique for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, August 16 – 19, and Monterey Pre-Reunion the week earlier than, August 12 – 13.
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