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2026 HSR Sebring Pistons & Props Presented by Alan Jay Automotive
Network Launches Next Year’s Season February 21 – 25
HSR Sebring Pistons & Props Presented by Alan Jay Automotive Network
Concludes with Great Competition and Close Family Camaraderie
SEBRING, Florida (December 7, 2025) – The HSR Sebring Pistons & Props
presented by Alan Jay Automotive Network came to a grand conclusion
Sunday after four days of great on-track competition and and a close
spirit of family camaraderie throughout HSR’s season-ending event
weekend.
Before Sunday’s final and full schedule of HSR sprint races, the HSR
racing family came together Saturday night for the annual season-ending
Awards Celebration. The evening concluded with the traditional
presentation of HSR’s individual achievement awards that include
Mechanic of the Year, Most Improved Driver and the highly sought after
Driver of the Year.
The top mechanic honor went to Wesley Stewart of Hudson Historics while
BMW M3 and HSR NASCAR Classic driver Stanley Fulton (pictured bottom
left) received Most Improved Driver. Driver of the Year was
enthusiastically accepted by David Agretelis (pictured bottom right),
which put the crowning touch on his most successful season of HSR
competition on record.
The season-long strong show culminated with back-to-back overall feature
race wins this weekend at Sebring where Agretelis drove his 901 Shop
1973 No. 92 Porsche 911 RSR to overall and class wins in Saturday’s
B.R.M Chronographes Endurance Challenge and Friday’s SascoSports
American/International Challenge presented by Hoosier sprint.
Another traditional dual award presentation took place Sunday morning
before this weekend’s attending airplanes left the Sebring paddock to
taxi back to Sebring Regional Airport where the pilots prepared for
their respective trips home.
Returning Pistons & Props pilots Jon Rising and Lisa Rising were awarded
Best Plane after a panel of HSR competitors and officials selected the
couple’s debuting 1949 Cessna 195 Businessliner, one of just 1,180
produced between 1947 and 1954. Fitting right in with the patriotic
spirit of Sebring Pistons & Props, the 195 model was also a go-to for
U.S. armed forces and was pressed into service by the United States Air
Force, the United States Army and Army National Guard as a light
transport and utility aircraft under the designations LC-126/U-20.
The pilots in turn started combing the paddock soon after their
early-evening Friday arrival in search of a deserving HSR race car
worthy of recognition. They soon zeroed in on the period-correct 1970
No. 7 Corvette C3 Roadster of Woody Smith and presented the
Florida-based driver with the highly coveted Pilots Choice Award.
The weekend’s HSR family vibe was also felt on the track where several
young and next-generation drivers showed their emerging form.
Brennan Refenning, 21, made his HSR debut to mark a third generation of
racers from the Florida-based Refenning family. His grandfather Jack
Refenning, 79, has put in an accomplished career in both historic and
contemporary sports car racing competition while his son, and Brennan’s
father, Brady Refenning, is an accomplished driver in his own right and
runs the day-to-day operations of the family’s 901 Shop business.
Driving the 901 Shop 1970 No. 916 Porsche 914/6 – a car his father has
owned since Brady was 15 – Brennan raced alongside his grandfather’s 901
Shop 1972 No. 24 Porsche 911 S/T more than once this weekend. Grandpa
even passed his grandson in Saturday morning’s B.R.M Chronographes
Endurance Challenge one-hour race en route to a third-place overall
Vintage-class podium finish. Brennan in turn recorded a top three of his
own in the B.R.M race and collected a medal for a third-place showing in
the Vintage 3 (V3) class.
The torch is also being passed by longtime HSR competitor John Reisman,
although he and coach and co-driver Eric Curran show no sign of slowing
down after winning the P3 class and finishing a strong third overall in
their 2020 No. 75 Ligier JS P320 in Saturday’s 90-minute HSR Prototype
Challenge presented by Michelin season finale.
With Reisman’s father and longtime racing partner Paul Reisman now
retired at the age of 82 after an accomplished career, Reisman now fills
the mentor role as his twin nephews Max Ehrlich and Zach Ehrlich move
into racing.
After Zach co-drove the Hudson Historics 2018 No. 82 Porsche 911 Type
991.2 GT3 Cup car (pictured at top) with John Reisman to a close Run
Group C second-place finish in the inaugural HSR Classic Road Atlanta 10
Hour presented by Mission Foods in late September at Michelin Raceway
Road Atlanta, it was Max’s turn to take the wheel at Sebring this
weekend. He promptly went out and showed a fast pace similar to his
brother and finished third in the No. 82 Porsche in a 33 car field in
Friday’s HSR Global GT race.
This weekend’s Sebring races wrapped up the 2025 HSR season, but the
2026 racing year starts right back at Sebring International Raceway this
February 21 – 25 with the next edition of the HSR Sebring Pistons and
Props presented by Alan Jay Automotive Network. Pistons & Props makes a
race date swap next year with the HSR Sebring Classic 12 Hour presented
by Mission Foods, which returns to its traditional December date after
one year running this past March the weekend before the Mobil 1 Twelve
Hours of Sebring.