The 2026 Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) schedule of occasions marks one other milestone with the primary abroad race in HSR’s almost 50-year historical past and return engagements at America’s most legendary street programs.
Among the many large information on the 2026 HSR calendar is an ‘throughout the Atlantic’ alternate between Peter Auto and HSR that brings Nineteen Sixties-era basic sports activities automobiles to the HSR Daytona Basic 24 Hour introduced by Mission Meals and take HSR’s NASCAR Basic introduced by Goodyear collection to the Le Mans Basic Legend.
The brand new collaboration between Peter Auto, which is the classic and historic arm of the ACO, and HSR that’s owned by main North American sports activities automotive racing sanctioning physique IMSA, is the most recent cooperative initiative in a powerful and ongoing partnership between the ACO and IMSA.
The primary a part of the high-speed alternate will see HSR’s rising NASCAR Basic introduced by Goodyear collection journey to France subsequent yr as a featured a part of the inaugural Le Mans Basic Legend, July 2 – 5, 2026 at Circuit de la Sarthe. Finishing its second season this yr, HSR NASCAR Basic is a showcase of top-level American inventory automobiles of assorted generations retired from modern competitors.
Later in 2026, a particular Peter Auto grid of automobiles from the group’s F interval, together with iconic GT sports activities automobiles from 1962 to 1965, will step into the American highlight on the HSR Daytona Basic 24 Hour introduced by Mission Meals. The primary and oldest HSR Basic race, the HSR Daytona Basic 24 might be run for the twelfth time at Daytona Worldwide Speedway (DIS), November 11 – 15.
The eight-event schedule is anchored for the second-straight yr by two races throughout the season at three completely different revered North American race circuits: Daytona Worldwide Speedway (DIS), Sebring Worldwide Raceway and Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta (MRRA).
A return to Watkins Glen Worldwide (WGI) for the fourth-straight yr provides to the enduring circuit lineup when the upstate New York street course hosts the HSR Watkins Glen Basic 6 Hour introduced by Mission Meals.
All of it begins at Daytona in January with the second annual working of the HSR IMSA Basic, a tribute launched this yr showcasing the legendary sports activities automobiles which have raced within the Rolex 24 At Daytona for greater than 60 years. The IMSA Basic takes to the highlight on the sixty fourth working of the Rolex 24, which as soon as once more opens the IMSA WeatherTech Sports activities Automobile Championship season this January 21 – 24 on the three.56-mile Daytona street course.
All genuine and period-correct sports activities automobiles between the years of 1990 and 2010 with a verifiable Rolex 24 historical past might be eligible to use for entry within the 2026 HSR IMSA Basic, with the eventual area of 20 decided by a range committee.
The IMSA Basic might be adopted by the yr’s first full points-paying championship weekend with the reformatted HSR Sebring Pistons & Props, introduced by the Alan Jay Automotive Community, which options each historic automobiles and airplanes on new February 12 – 15 dates at Sebring Worldwide Raceway.
The Sebring opener might be adopted by the forty eighth working of the HSR The Mitty introduced by Hagerty at Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta, April 23 – 26. The oldest and maybe most revered HSR race, the standard featured Run Group of the forty eighth Mitty might be introduced within the close to future.
The HSR Watkins Glen Basic 6 Hour introduced by Mission Meals is up subsequent, June 11 – 14 and is the primary of four-straight races within the second season of the HSR Basic Endurance Championship, introduced by Mission Meals. Launched this yr, the Basic Endurance Championship by Mission Meals is North America’s first main endurance racing collection for historic prototype sports activities automobiles retired from modern competitors.
Then NASCAR Basic collection heads to France, appropriately on 4th of July weekend, a full 50 years after a pair of NASCAR inventory automobiles took the 24 Hours of Le Mans by storm. A Dodge Charger pushed by NASCAR legend Herschel McGriff and his son Doug McGriff, and a Junie Donlavey Ford Torino, co-driven by skilled Le Mans drivers Richard Brooks and Dick Hutcherson, made the visitor appearances in what turned out to be a wildly in style attraction with France’s passionate race followers.
HSR’s now conventional summer time competitors break returns in August when HSR lends its operational and sanctioning experience to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and Pre-Reunion weekends at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for the sixth consecutive yr.
The 2026 HSR championship schedule resumes with the second working of the HSR Highway Atlanta Basic 10 Hour, introduced by Mission Meals, at MRRA September 17 – 20.
The HSR Daytona Basic 24 Hour, introduced by Mission Meals, begins its second decade of competitors on the November 11 – 15 dates in HSR’s second look of the 2026 season on the World Middle of Racing.
The Peter Auto grid of 1960’s period classics at Daytona can pay tribute to the earliest editions of main sports activities automotive endurance races on the ‘World Middle of Racing.’ The primary was the Daytona Continental, which was run in 1962 and gained by Dan Gurney in an Arciero Racing Lotus 19. Shortly thereafter, the race expanded to the complete 24-hour contest that runs for the sixty fourth time this January. The Peter Auto lineup slated for the journey to Daytona completely represents the 1962 to 1965 golden period that was really the daybreak of America’s premier 24-hour race.
The HSR Sebring Basic 12 Hour, introduced by Mission Meals, returns to its unique season-ending date in 2026 to shut out subsequent yr’s HSR’s racing season on December 2 – 6 at Sebring Worldwide Raceway.
The HSR Basic occasion weekends at The Glen, MRRA, Daytona and Sebring share the cardboard, respectively, with the Watkins Glen Historics, the Fall Historics, the Daytona Historics and the Sebring Historics. All 4 occasions are key rounds of HSR’s season-long championships and embody races for the HSR Prototype Problem introduced by Michelin, Sasco Sports activities Worldwide/American Problem introduced by Hoosier, B.R.M. Endurance Problem, HSR WeatherTech Dash and HSR International GT racing collection.
2026 Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Race-Occasion Schedule*January 21 – 25: HSR IMSA Basic – Daytona Worldwide SpeedwayFebruary 12 – 15: HSR Sebring Pistons and Props, introduced by the Alan Jay Automotive Community – Sebring Worldwide RacewayApril 23 – April 26: forty eighth HSR The Mitty introduced by Hagerty – Michelin Raceway Highway AtlantaJune 11 – 14: HSR Watkins Glen Basic 6 Hour, introduced by Mission Meals, and The HSR Watkins Glen Historics – Watkins GlenJuly 2 – 5: Le Mans Basic Legend HSR NASCAR Basic – Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, FranceSeptember 17 – 20: HSR Highway Atlanta Basic 10 Hour, introduced by Mission Meals, and the Fall Historics – Highway AtlantaNovember 11 – 15: HSR Daytona Basic 24 Hour, introduced by Mission Meals, and the HSR Daytona Historics – DaytonaDecember 2 – 6: HSR Sebring Basic 12 Hour, introduced by Mission Meals, and the HSR Sebring Historics – Sebring
