The Historic Motors Sports Association (HMSA) held a LSR Invitational event on June 3-4, 2014 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The mid-week testing session saw a nice selection of historic racing cars challenge the 11-turn, 2.238-mile road course in Salinas, California.
Similar to HMSA Club events, the LSR Invitational featured historic production cars built through 1972 and purpose-built Formula, Sports Racing and IMSA and Trans-Am cars built through present day. The run groups for the two-day June LSR Invitational were divided into four run groups, with each enjoying two 25-minute sessions in the morning and two 30-minute sessions in the afternoon.
The June 2014 running of the HMSA LSR Invitational at Laguna Seca featured many notable entrants, including Ned Spieker’s 1958 Maserati 200Si; Ernie Prisbe’s 1971 Ferrari 312 PB; 1959 Lister Costin Chevrolet and 1972 McLaren M8FP of Rob Kauffman; Greg Myer’s 1958 Devin SS; Erickson Shirley’s 1959 Lister Costin Chevrolet; Ranson Webster’s 1960 Porsche Abarth; Frank Altamura’a 1955 Porsche Pupulidy Special; Michael O’Callaghan’s 1969 Porsche 911; Jonathan Feiber’s 1960 Maserati Tipo 61 Birdcage; Henry Schmitt’s BMW 3.5 CSL and M3 E36; 1989 Porsche 962 of Erich Wilms and Charles McCabe’s 1955 Maserati 250F.
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Similar to the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and April 2014 events, Senior Photographer Dennis Gray also documented the June 2014 running of the HMSA LSR Invitational, offering the following images that highlight the quality participants. We split up Dennis’ 120 pictures into two galleries. The first gallery starting below features our favorite images, all displayed in the full-width view of Sports Car Digest, while the second gallery begins on the eighth page of the article and gives a comprehensive view of all the photographs.
HMSA LSR Invitational June 2014 – Featured Photo Gallery
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HMSA LSR Invitational June 2014 – Main Photo Gallery (click image for larger picture and description)
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[Source: HMSA; Dennis Gray]
To find one word that sums up your coverage?. Brilliant covers it Dennis. So great to see the photograph of the car entering the pit lane, showing the background, and how the terrain is so undulating at this circuit. I had no idea, I just knew of the “corkscrew” which is a famous corner, come dip. It was interesting to see some photographs taken at a different position on the circuit, rather than the “usual” dropping into the dipper shots… Thanks.
The smiling faces say as much about these cars as the great photos at speed do. Nicely done!
I’ve been going to Laguna Seca for 30 plus years now, and always look forward to your photos. Hope to meet you in August if your not to busy.
Always happy to meet Sportscardigest readers. I usually wear a black wind braker with our logo on the back and my name on the front. Nikon’s of course. See you there. Dennis
Am I correct in inferring that this is not a race? Is the event open to the public?