A quick and acquainted group of Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) opponents broke by for general Run Group victories this weekend within the Second Annual HSR Basic 6 Hours of The Glen, June 6 – 9. The HSR Basic 6 Hours is a retro-tribute race to The Glen’s longstanding and premier sports activities automotive race, which has been run because the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen for greater than the final 20 years. Every of the Basic 6 Hour’s three era-specific Run Teams took to the observe 3 times over the course of this previous Saturday and Sunday to find out this 12 months’s winners.
The Basic 6 started with a symbolic six-straight hours of racing Saturday afternoon into early night as every Run Group contested its first two segments. All returned for one last spherical Sunday, after which the general Basic 6 Run Group winners had been offered with all-new and custom-made Wall Clocks from B.R.M. Chronographes. Displaying the identical dial design as B.R.M.’s distinctive time items, the large clocks had been an enormous hit with the three winners that every took one dwelling.
The Basic 6 Hour started 2024’s three-race run of blockbuster “HSR Classics” races that additionally consists of occasions later this 12 months at Daytona Worldwide Speedway (DIS) and Sebring Worldwide Raceway.
Run Group A was a battle from the beginning between a pair of former and up to date HSR Classics winners that went right down to the wire in Sunday’s last spherical.
In his HSR Classics debut, Kyle Collins secured a convincing Run Group victory final December within the HSR Basic Sebring 12 Hour at Sebring Worldwide Raceway. The 24-year-old expertise was in search of his second-straight HSR Classics victory this previous weekend, however an anticipated group of challengers stepped as much as tackle Collins and his GMT Racing 1972 No. 18 Chevron B21.
The battle got here right down to Collins and the Chevron and the equally fast 1975 No. 205 Toj SC205 of a number of HSR Classics Daytona and Sebring race winner David Porter and his co-driver Richard Bradley. The Toj gained Saturday’s opening race, however Collins responded with a victory in spherical two and went into the in a single day break main Porter and Bradley. Sunday’s last spherical was a thriller as Bradley, a profitable co-driver within the LMP2 class within the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans, gained the phase and constructed a little bit of a niche on Collins to safe the general Run Group victory. Porter is now one of many few drivers victorious in every of the HSR Classics at Daytona, Sebring and The Glen.
One other December HSR Sebring winner in search of consecutive HSR Classics triumphs was the Matador Motorsports 2017 No. 02 Cadillac DPi of Pierce Marshall and Eric Foss. Competing in Run Group C at each Sebring and The Glen, the No. 02 took the opening phase win Saturday with a 36-second margin of victory earlier than giving approach to the same 2017 No. 81 Cadillac DPi co-driven by longtime HSR competitor Juan Gonzalez and three-time Rolex 24 At Daytona race winner Butch Leitzinger.
The No. 81 gained each Run Group C last rounds, however a usually calculated and strategic race by the Matador crew delivered a second consecutive HSR Classics win, and their first at The Glen, for Marshall and Foss. Constructing sufficient of a lead-gap within the first Run Group C spherical, Marshall and Foss maintained first place general by the ultimate two segments. Much like Sebring, the No. 02 crew and drivers had been content material to path simply behind the No. 81 to the top, taking the weekend’s last checkered flag six seconds again however sealing the Run Group C crown with a cushty general margin of victory.
The Basic 6 Run Group B race was gained by the distinctive Sasco Sports activities 1982 No. 05 March 822 Can-Am piloted by crew proprietor Dave Useful and co-driver Peter McLaughlin. The 822 was initially designed as an open-wheel System 2 class single-seater and was pushed to championships in Europe and Japan in 1982.
On the identical time within the U.S, the second-generation Can-Am sequence welcomed single-seaters, just like the March, fitted with our bodies, and the 822 was a preferred alternative within the 2-liter class. Among the many prime opponents operating the March 822 in its prime was then reigning 2-liter class champion Jim Trueman, who campaigned one of many Can-Am bodied automobiles much like the Sasco Sports activities No. 05 in 1982.
Useful and McLaughlin added to the March 822’s profitable historical past on the Basic 6 with a strong run to victory in Run Group B. The No. 05 constructed a greater than one-minute lead after Saturday’s opening spherical and by no means seemed again from there, finally sealing the Run Group B crown with a race-high two-lap lead over the closest competitor. The win was the primary for Useful in Sasco Sports activities in HSR Classics competitors.
The Basic 6 weekend additionally featured the HSR Watkins Glen Historics, which had been points-paying races for HSR’s varied season-long championships. Along with a doubleheader lineup of HSR WeatherTech Sprints for all Run Teams, the Glen Historics characteristic race calendar included the HSR International GT race Saturday morning and the Sasco Sports activities Worldwide/American Problem dash that kicked off the weekend’s racing schedule Friday afternoon.
The longest races on the Glen Historics schedule bought issues rolling each Saturday and Sunday. Spherical 3 of the HSR Prototype Problem offered by IMSA started Saturday’s schedule with a 90-minute race.
Twin B.R.M. Endurance Problem one-hour races in flip kicked off Sunday’s last day of on-track competitors beginning at 8 a.m. for the GT Basic (GTC) and Classic courses, which was instantly adopted by the Historic, Prototype and GT Trendy (GTM) race.
Among the many HSR Watkins Glen Historics winners was Todd Treffert, who secured the general victory in his Speedconcepts 1974 No. 14 Porsche 911 IROC ready by the 901 Store in Friday’s Sasco Sports activities Worldwide/American Problem. Eric Lux made one other go to to HSR Victory Lane in Saturday’s International GT race after a win in his Goldcrest Motorsports 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3. David Agretelis gained general and in GTC within the first B.R.M. Endurance Problem race within the 1974 No. 92 Porsche IROC. Marshall and Foss then confirmed an indication of issues to come back within the Matador No. 2 Cadillac with an general and Prototype class victory within the second B.R.M. Endurance race, which set the stage for the ultimate rounds of the HSR Basic 6 afterward Sunday.
Subsequent up for HSR is the IMSA Michelin GT Problem Help Race, August 23 – 25, which can be HSR’s first look at VIRginia Worldwide Raceway (VIR) since 2016.
