The 46th running of the Historic Sportscar Racing Mitty at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta next year will showcase the Cars of Japan as the Featured Marque of HSR’s longest running race, April 25-28. Prototype and production-based race cars from Japan from the last 50 years will take to the spotlight during HSR’s first event of the 2024 season, including Saturday’s Cars of Japan Feature Race that will be one of the highlights of a packed 46th Mitty race schedule on the 2.54-mile road course north of Atlanta.
The Cars of Japan celebration marks the third straight year HSR has showcased at the Mitty a geographical genre of cars rather than a specific make or model as the Featured Marque. This year’s 45th HSR Mitty featured 75 Years of NASCAR as part of the sanctioning body’s year-long Diamond Jubilee celebration and attracted a huge entry of all-American historic stock cars. In 2022, the globally popular Sports 2000 category, that was introduced in the UK in 1976, took center stage as the Featured Marque.
“The significant race wins and championships of Japanese manufacturers in major sports car competition around the world has been impressive and somewhat unheralded over the years, but we look forward to bringing some focus — and impressive race cars — to celebrate these achievement at the 46th Mitty,” said HSR President David Hinton. “Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta couldn’t be a better track to host the celebration as it was here Mazda Motorsport celebrated one of its greatest victories with an overall win at the 2021 Petit Le Mans in the final race for the Mazda RT24-P program. We look forward to lauding that triumph and so many other amazing sports car racing accomplishments over the last few decades by Japanese manufacturers next April.”
