Gridlife: More events and new tracks for 2023

Colin
By Colin Wood
Jan 5, 2023 | gridlife

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The Gridlife festivals you love, now available in more places.

For 2023, Gridlife has expanded its signature automotive festivities to three new tracks in addition to familiar favorites like Midwest Festival and Circuit Legends at Lime Rock Park.

As a way to maximize enjoyment for drivers and spectators alike, the schedule is broken down into a few different types of events:

The schedule is split into “Festival Tour” events, which will feature an elevated fan and spectator experience, GRIDLIFE Touring Cup (GLTC) points rounds, and the popular GRIDLIFE Live broadcast, while the rest of the year’s events fall into the “Club Series” category, designed to enhance the track time, driver community, and paddock experience for competitors.

The six-round Festival Tour schedule features all three of the new facilities on the 2023 GRIDLIFE calendar, and spans the United States from coast to coast in a true national championship for GRIDLIFE Touring Cup and TrackBattle Time Attack. Pending further agreements, fans can expect to see drift at most, if not all, of the Festival Tour events, including the full WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca circuit with decibel restrictions lifted for the weekend. 

The Festival Tour will feature the GRIDLIFE Live broadcast at all six events, paired with a focus on the fan experience. Spectators will be able to visit the GRIDLIFE Arcade, a vendor village, and roam the paddock when they’re not trackside watching the action or participating in ride-alongs on track. The Festival Tour season starts in March with a trip to Carolina Motorsports Park (CMP) before heading to Watkins Glen International in Upstate New York. June brings the return of the annual GRIDLIFE Festival at GingerMan Raceway, before a July break and August return to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and Circuit Legends at Lime Rock Park. The season will come to a close with a new festival, GRIDLIFE Laguna, at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in October. 

GRIDLIFE’s Club Series calendar focuses on TrackBattle Time Attack, High Performance Driving Environment (HPDE), and the new SuperGrid Endurance series, at some of the staple facilities from past GRIDLIFE schedules. Autobahn Country Club, Heartland Motorsports Park, New Jersey Motorsports Park, GingerMan Raceway, and Willow Springs International Raceway will feature Club Series rounds in 2023. These events are designed to supplement the driver community and retain the paddock vibes that GRIDLIFE strives to build, without the outside pressures of fans, music, and GRIDLIFE Live broadcasts that the Festival Tour events bring.

The 2023 schedule is as follows:

  • 3/11 - 3/12 Super Lap Battle - GLTC Special (COTA, TX) - SPECIAL EVENT
  • 3/30 - 4/2 GRIDLIFE SPRING KICK OFF - (Carolina Motorsports Park, SC) - FESTIVAL TOUR
  • 4/28 - 4/30 GRIDLIFE AT THE GLEN - (Watkins Glen Intl., NY) - FESTIVAL TOUR
  • 5/20 - 5/21 MIDWEST REV-UP - (Gingerman Raceway, MI) - CLUB WEEKEND
  • 6/2 - 6/4 GRIDLIFE Festival (Gingerman Raceway, MI) - FESTIVAL TOUR
  • 6/24 - 6/25 GRIDLIFE Chicago (Autobahn Country Club, IL) - CLUB WEEKEND
  • 7/22 - 7/23 GRIDLIFE NJMP (New Jersey Motorsports Park, NJ) - CLUB WEEKEND
  • 8/4 - 8/5 GRIDLIFE Mid-Summer Meet (Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, OH) - FESTIVAL TOUR
  • 8/18 - 8/19 GRIDLIFE CIRCUIT LEGENDS (Lime Rock Park, CT ) - FESTIVAL TOUR
  • 9/23 - 9/24 GRIDLIFE Heartland  (Heartland Motorsports Park, KS) - CLUB WEEKEND
  • 9/30 - 10/1 GRIDLIFE Streets Special  (Willow Springs Intl. Raceway, CA) - CLUB WEEKEND
  • 10/20 - 10/22 GRIDLIFE Laguna (Weathertech RacewayLaguna Seca, CA) - FESTIVAL TOUR
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David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
1/6/23 12:08 p.m.

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