Pristine climate with sunshine and temperatures within the 80s offered the right setting for the on-track competitors Friday on the Historic Sportscar Racing forty fifth HSR Mitty at Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta the place back-to-back Sasco Sports activities Worldwide/American Problem races produced the weekend’s first race winners.
Larry Ligas went an ideal two-for-two in Sasco Sports activities races this season with an Worldwide class victory Friday in Race A for bigger displacement automobiles. Ligas adopted up his win within the season-opening Sasco Sports activities race final month at Sebring Worldwide Raceway with one other class and general victory at Highway Atlanta in his Predator Efficiency 1961 No. 61 Jaguar XKE.
The Sasco Sports activities Worldwide/American Problem Race B general victory for small-bore race automobiles went to Simon Foweather in his TPC Motorsports 2018 No. 61 Caterham Seven 420R. Foweather additionally scored Race B Worldwide class honors and — along with each profitable with No. 61 on their automobiles — joined Ligas in a victorious repeat of his personal. Foweather scored a B.R.M. Endurance Problem general race win in his Caterham eventually September’s HSR Fall Historics and now has a two-race Michelin Raceway win streak.
Friday’s different Sasco Sports activities winners included Gary Moore in his Cobra Automotive 1966 No. 98 Mustang Shelby GT350, Robert Spence within the 1972 No. 63 Porsche 911 and Colin Dougherty in his 1988 No. 86 Porsche Turbo Cup sequence automotive ready by DAS Sport.
Moore received Sasco Sports activities Race A within the American division and completed second general behind Ligas. Spence scored Porsche-class honors in Race 1 whereas Dougherty topped an all Porsche 944 top-three with a victory within the Gold Crest class in Race B.
Peter Dolan accomplished the general prime three in Race A and completed second within the American division in his 1965 No. 76 Mustang Shelby GT350. A Mustang podium sweep was accomplished by Craig Ross who took third in American in Race A in his 1970 No. 72 Cross Ross Boss Racing Ford Mustang Boss 302.
The 944 sweep Dougherty anchored within the Porsche class in Race B included Joey Sullivan in second in his 1989 No. 141 Porsche 944 S2 and Ray Shaffer who crossed the road taking third in his DAS Sport 1988 No. 55 Porsche 944 Turbo.
Race B’s Porsche podium was accomplished by Angus Rogers in second place in his KMW Motorsports 1973 No. 15 Porsche 911 RSR and Aaron Nash within the Craig Sutherland-owned 1973 No. 41 Porsche 911 S/T within the third and ultimate podium place.
Friday’s podium gamers additionally included Rob Albino in his Hudson Historics 2000 No. 99 BMW Z3 Coupe and Greg Ira within the 1973 No. 83 Datsun 240Z who positioned second and third, respectively, behind Ligas in Race A Worldwide.
The spotlight of tomorrow’s forty fifth HSR Mitty scheduled is the primary NASCAR seventy fifth Anniversary Gene Felton Memorial Problem race that formally launches Saturday’s racing schedule with a 1pm ET inexperienced flag.
Saturday additionally options the arrival of the long-lasting Wooden Brothers Racing household that presides over the weekend’s racing exercise because the Grand Marshals of the forty fifth HSR Mitty. Eddie Wooden and Len Wooden will signify the household as the first Grand Marshals and could also be joined by their 88-year-old uncle, Leonard Wooden.
