Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) just lately launched the official entry checklist up to now for the Ninth Operating of the HSR Traditional Daytona introduced by IMSA, the nation’s premier 24-hour race for historic and classic sports activities automobiles that returns to Daytona Worldwide Speedway (DIS) November 1 – 5.
This yr’s version of the HSR Traditional Daytona 24 has attracted the standard triple-digit entry of former race winners and debuting contenders in addition to a stout lineup for the HSR Daytona Historics, the Traditional 24 companion occasion that could be a points-paying spherical for HSR’s season-long racing sequence and championships.
Picture: Brian Cleary
One in every of entry of observe headed to Daytona is the 1998 Ferrari 333 SP of Graham Adelman (pictured above) that was ready and maintained in its prime by Doran Racing and Kevin Doran, who can be again on the helm once more on the Traditional 24. The Ferrari twice competed within the Rolex 24 in 1999 and 2000, co-driven every time by Fredy Lienhard, Didier Theys and Mauro Baldi, with two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Arie Luyendyk becoming a member of the squad the primary yr.
First held in 2014, the fast success of the inaugural HSR Traditional Daytona 24 referred to as for a second working in 2015. After a yr off, the 24-Hour traditional race on the three.56-mile DIS street course returned in 2017 and is now an annual fixture on the HSR calendar.
The HSR Traditional Daytona options seven totally different Run Teams competing in succession for a full 24 hours on the DIS street course. The assorted period-correct lessons inside every Run Group mix to make nearly any closed-wheel competitors sports activities automotive from the final 60 years eligible for the HSR Traditional Daytona.
The Traditional 24 will get underway Saturday, November 4 at 2 p.m. EDT and, for the second-consecutive yr, the in a single day time change from EDT (Jap Daylight Time) to EST (Jap Customary Time) – when U.S time “falls again” an hour – will see repeat 1 a.m. periods early Sunday morning. Group G runs its second of 4 periods at 1 a.m. EDT and can be adopted by the third spherical for Group A at 1 a.m. EST.
Info on the 2023 HSR Traditional Daytona and the accompanying HSR Daytona Historics, together with the occasion schedule and rather more, will be discovered by clicking HERE.
The 2023 HSR Traditional Daytona introduced by IMSA entry checklist will be discovered by clicking HERE.
