Slightly below a yr after Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and North American meals business big Mission Meals established a long-term partnership that features Mission’s sponsorship of The HSR Traditional Endurance Championship offered by Mission Meals, officers from each firms introduced an growth of the settlement with the introduction of the Mission GT Problem.
The brand new HSR Mission GT Problem sequence aligns HSR’s present Group 9, Group 10 and Group 11 classes – to be identified going ahead as Mission GT Problem – that usually cowl up to date production-based and GT Fashionable (GTM) race vehicles retired from present competitors. The whole lot from small-bore touring vehicles as much as top-level GT machines simply previous their competitors primes are welcome within the Mission GT Problem.
Expanded observe time is a part of the brand new Mission GT Problem format, and each HSR championship weekend options two dash races and a one-hour enduro, open to all eligible lessons and vehicles within the sequence. Season-long factors might be tabulated, together with separate rankings for the enduro races, and Mission GT Problem Champions might be topped on the year-end awards celebration commencing in 2026.
The Mission GT Problem idea showcasing GTM vehicles aligns completely with the HSR Prototype Problem offered by Michelin sequence that gives an identical area and mixture of dash and endurance races for modern-day Prototypes vehicles of all classes retired from up to date competitors.
Preliminary plans additionally embody common Thursday night time social occasions at occasions beginning in 2026 that includes Mission Meals merchandise, which might be open to all HSR rivals.
The Mission GT Problem announcement was one in every of a number of made Friday at HSR’s inaugural State of the Sport presentation at Michelin Raceway Street Atlanta. This weekend, September 26 – 28, MRRA hosts the annual HSR Fall Historics in addition to the premiere version of the brand new HSR Street Atlanta Traditional 10 Hour offered by Mission Meals, the third spherical of the first-year HSR Traditional Endurance Championship offered by Mission Meals.
The HSR Fall Historics and HSR Traditional Street Atlanta 10 Hour offered by Mission Meals weekend continues by way of Sunday. Tickets can be found at www.michelinracewayroadatlanta.com.
Juan Gonzalez, Mission Meals Chief Govt Officer: “We’re proud to increase our partnership with the HSR Traditional Endurance Championship and introduce the Mission GT Problem. This growth won’t solely ship extra unforgettable experiences for racers and followers alike, however it’s a sturdy testomony to our continued dedication to motorsports.”
John Doonan, HSR President: “That is the proper growth with the proper companion, and we will not thank Juan Gonzalez and Mission Meals sufficient for additional believing in and supporting HSR’s mission of high quality competitors on the observe and family-first camaraderie when the racing is finished. Mission’s unimaginable assist has allowed us to align our respective trendy Prototype and GT Fashionable (GTM) championships in two totally different sequence with a mega quantity of observe time. The HSR and Mission Meals relationship is simply starting to develop, and we stay up for a few years of a powerful and profitable partnership with Mission and our different valued sponsors as effectively.”
