Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and its guardian firm IMSA will co-sanction the on-track competitors occasions on the Rennsport Reunion 7 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, September 28 – October 1. The RR7 sanctioning our bodies have been confirmed by officers from Porsche Vehicles North America (PCNA) and host venue WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (WRLS).
The primary Rennsport Reunion in 5 years, RR7 coincides with the seventy fifth Anniversary 12 months of Porsche and this 12 months’s theme is “Icons of Porsche.” The celebration contains Porsche racing legends that might be effectively represented on the WRLS circuit in each IMSA- and HSR-sanctioned competitors.
Constructing on two years of success and expertise because the official sanctioning physique of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and Monterey Pre-Reunion at WRLS, HSR fills an identical roll at RR7 in offering its experience and huge collective expertise in race occasion operations and full technical scrutineering for the lineup of classic and historic racing occasions.
IMSA will officiate a Porsche Deluxe Carrera Cup North America doubleheader, a up to date and ultra-competitive addition to RR7. North America’s premier Porsche one-make race collection made its 2023 debut earlier this month at Sebring Worldwide Raceway with a pair of 40-minute races gained by rising star Riley Dickinson. Flat-out sprints with no pit cease; this 12 months’s Carrera Cup subject options upwards of 40 iconic Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race automobiles. Each Carrera Cup races on the RR7 doubleheader pays official factors towards this 12 months’s 16-race championship.
“When IMSA and HSR introduced the acquisition ultimately 12 months’s Rolex 24 At Daytona, we knew it was solely a matter of time earlier than our plans of working collectively on a co-sanctioned occasion weekend would turn out to be a actuality,” mentioned IMSA President John Doonan. “For IMSA and HSR to have the ability to work our first occasion collectively as a part of a Rennsport Reunion on the wonderful WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca makes it that a lot better. The HSR-run occasions will give the large crowd in attendance a chance to have a good time Porsche icons of the previous whereas the IMSA Porsche Deluxe Carrera Cup races will present the present and ultra-competitive racing that solely an all-Porsche collection can ship.”
Established within the mid-Nineteen Seventies, HSR is led by HSR President David Hinton, who was a majority proprietor for the final 10 years and guided HSR’s sale to IMSA early in 2022. Hinton stays on the helm as president and continues to steer the group by means of one among its greatest durations of progress within the greater than 40-year historical past of HSR.
“We admire the continued belief and help John Narigi, Barry Toepke and your complete staff at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca have positioned in us for the on-track operations of the Monterey Motorsports Reunion occasions and vastly admire their endorsement with Porsche Vehicles North America to work in the identical capability at Rennsport Reunion,” Hinton mentioned. “As the biggest gathering of Porsche fanatics and followers on the planet, we understand the accountability and nice dedication required to sanction the classic and historic races at Rennsport Reunion. We’re grateful to PCNA and WRLS for the chance and sit up for placing on an important present for the rivals and the Porsche followers and neighborhood. It is usually going to be an important expertise working with and working side-by-side with our colleagues at IMSA.”
For additional particulars, updates and occasion highlights together with particular programming, information on E-Sports activities, fan zones, dwell stream alternatives, autograph periods with drivers and a number of different off-track actions, followers can even go to the brand new, devoted Rennsport web site at PorscheRennsportReunion.com.
Ticket gross sales for Porsche Rennsport Reunion 7 have gone dwell because the countdown begins for the world’s greatest Porsche gathering. Ticket and tenting packages can be found at WeatherTechRaceway.com or by calling the ticket and lodging specialists at 831-242-8200.
The 2023 HSR racing calendar started final weekend at Sebring Worldwide Raceway, March 24 – 26, with the annual season-opening HSR Spring Fling. Please go to www.HSRRace.com for extra info on HSR and the 2023 HSR schedule.
