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The World Championship for Makes was one of the several names the FIA adopted for its global sportscar championship through the years, and one of the more accurately descriptive\u2014along with World Sportscar Championship. It was a championship that embraced the manufacturers\u2019 envelope-advancing prototypes as well as the production-based Grand Touring machines, and together those two categories wrote significant portions of racing history.<\/p>\n

Now, in order to represent the \u201cgolden years\u201d of Championship of Makes sports car racing more accurately, Historic Sportscar Racing has announced that it will expand its Group 7\/Championship of Makes competition category to include \u201cthe production-based sports cars of the 1970s and 1980s on slick tires.\u201d These cars will move from their previous Group 9\/IMSA Historic GT home to run alongside Group 7\u2019s FIA Sports Prototypes of the same era, still in their respective classes, just as they did originally.<\/p>\n

The change will provide spectators with greater historic continuity, as cars that raced with and against each other back in the day will again be doing so.<\/p>\n

For more information please visit www.hsrrace.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The World Championship for Makes was one of the several names the FIA adopted for its global sportscar championship through the years, and one of the more accurately descriptive\u2014along with World Sportscar Championship. It was a championship that embraced the manufacturers\u2019 envelope-advancing prototypes as well as the production-based Grand Touring machines, and together those two categories wrote significant portions of racing history. Now, in order to represent the \u201cgolden years\u201d of Championship of Makes sports car racing more accurately, Historic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":533086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13063],"tags":[15234],"class_list":["post-492560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-events-vintage-racing"],"yoast_head":"\nNews - HSR Championship Makeover<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HSR Championship Makeover\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/hsr-championship-makeover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News - 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