Fast and Familiar Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Race Winners Emerge from Competitive and Quality Entry at the HSR Fall Historics at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta
A fast and familiar group of Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) teams and drivers emerged victorious from a competitive and quality entry of more than 160 classic sports cars and other road racing machines from the last 60 years in last weekend's HSR Fall Historics at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
The first event in HSR's three-race stretch run to closeout the 2024 season, the Fall Historics weekend featured doubleheader WeatherTech Sprint races for all Run Groups as well as an action-packed lineup of HSR feature races in a non-stop schedule over the four-day event.
Perennial HSR powerhouse Todd Treffert once again emerged as the weekend's top winner in his always-quick Speedconcepts 1974 No. 14 Porsche 911 IROC prepared by the 901 Shop. This time Treffert even went undefeated with a perfect five-for-five race performance, sweeping the Group 5 WeatherTech Sprints Saturday and Sunday and winning a trio of feature races.
Treffert's feature race haul included overall and class wins Saturday in both the B.R.M. Endurance Challenge GT Classic (GTC) and Vintage one-hour race and the Sasco Sports International/American Challenge sprint. He also took Classic RS Cup honors in the combined race with HSR's Global GT series for more contemporary but retired GT cars. In addition to his overall and GTC B.R.M. victory, Treffert's Sasco Sports win was particularly impressive as he topped a field of 38 entries for the overall and Porsche-class wins.
Treffert shared the Sasco Sports victories with Jeff McKee, who won the American division in his fan-favorite 1964 No. 51 Ford Falcon prepared by Olthoff Racing, and International class winner Ryan Staub in his 2008 No. 13 Mazda MX-5.
Joining Treffert in Saturday's B.R.M. win column was Vintage-class victor Craig Watkins in his speedy 1968 No. 46 Porsche 911.
David Richardson won the HSR Global GT race in the FlatSix Motorsports 2018 No. 06 Porsche 991.2 GT3 Cup car and took the checkered flag first overall to top a stout field of 37 Global GT and RS Cup competitors.
Sunday's feature race was the B.R.M. Endurance Challenge one-hour contest for the Prototype, Historic and GT Modern (GTM) classes. The overall and Prototype winner in the 40-car field was Jon Field in his 2016 No. 37 One Motorsports Ligier JS P3.
Colin Dougherty was the first non-Prototype competitor across the finish line, taking the checkered flag a solid ninth overall and securing the B.R.M. GTM win in his 2008 No. 92 Porsche 997 Grand-Am Cup prepared by DAS Sport. The B.R.M. Historic division win saw Benjamin Myers pull off a repeat victory in his Wolf Motorsports 2001 No. 29 Carbir CS2 Sports 2000. Myers won the B.R.M. Endurance race in the same car last April in HSR's The Mitty at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
Other victory lane visitors of note on the weekend included HSR NASCAR Classic race winners Justin DeFoor and Brian Norman who flip-flopped the finishing orders in the Saturday and Sunday sprints. DeFoor won Saturday's opener in his 2014 No. 16 Ford Mustang to lead second-place finisher Norman to the line. On Sunday, Norman stepped up for the win in his 2006 No. 41 Dodge Charger while DeFoor took the checkered flag in P2.
Next up on the HSR schedule is the NASCAR Classic at NASCAR's Bank of America Roval 400, October 12 - 13. The Charlotte HSR debut is followed by the 10th running of the Classic Daytona 24 Hour presented by IMSA at Daytona International Speedway (DIS), October 30 - November 3.
