DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – This weekend’s 10th Running of the HSR Daytona Classic 24 Hour Presented by Mission Foods will be featured for the second-straight year with an expanded schedule of livestream coverage – presented by Matador Motorsports – on the HSR and IMSA YouTube Channels this Saturday and Sunday from Daytona International Speedway (DIS).
The HSR Daytona Classic 24 Hour was livestreamed for the first time last year with 12 hours of combined coverage over the race’s two days, but this weekend’s programming with Matador Motorsports’ support features more than 15 hours of live action across Saturday and Sunday.
The bulk of this year’s livestream comes in a 10-hour block of coverage Saturday from 10:20 a.m. to 8:20 p.m. The schedule opens with late-morning races that are part of the HSR Daytona Historics, the co-headline companion event of the HSR Daytona Classic 24 which is a points-paying round of HSR’s season-long racing series and championships.
That paves the way for HSR Daytona Classic 24 pre-race ceremonies, in-paddock and on-the-grid interviews and some behind-the-scenes features leading up the start of the twice-around-the-clock race at 2 p.m.
The HSR Daytona Classic 24 features six different and period-correct Run Groups – A through F – competing in succession for a full 24 hours on the legendary 3.56-mile road course. Each Run Group runs four times throughout the 24 hours with the individual segments clocking in just under one hour in length to allow time to grid and run the pace laps for the next race as the previous group exits the track.
The entirety of the first of the race’s four rotations fills the final six hours of Saturday’s livestream.
Programming will end Saturday at 8:20 p.m. just after the traditional fireworks display at 8 p.m. coinciding with the start of the second Group A race.
Matador Motorsports presented livestream resumes Sunday at 7:50 a.m. and continues straight through to the weekend’s final checkered flag at 1 p.m.
The on-air talent team for Classic 24 livestream features veteran sports car racing broadcaster and frequent HSR commentator Joe Bradley, who was part of last year’s first Classic 24 livestream. He will be joined by Jeff Wright, the Official Announcer of HSR, who also returns to the program team after hosting last year’s initial livestream.
A new but more than familiar addition to the Classic 24 crew is top motorsports journalist and online personality Marshall Pruett, who makes his second showing of the season with HSR after hosting a series of video features from August’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
This year’s HSR Daytona Class 24 livestream is being produced by Apex Broadcast, an experienced TV production company specializing in live motorsports.
