Gridlife introduces new endurance racing series, SuperGrid Grand Prix

Colin
By Colin Wood
Sep 1, 2022 | gridlife, Gridlife Club Sport, SuperGrid Grand Prix, Gridlife Sundae Cup, Gridlife Touring Club, SuperGrid

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Love the Gridlife Touring Cup, but wish multiple classes raced at once for longer stints? Lucky for you, Gridlife just announced SuperGrid Grand Prix:

Building upon the successful GRIDLIFE Touring Cup series, GRIDLIFE introduces SuperGrid Grand Prix! This multi-race, uniquely formatted team event includes several different experiences throughout a race weekend. The series also introduces multi-class racing to GRIDLIFE’s wheel-to-wheel racing lineup, with direct cross-series rulesets for GRIDLIFE Touring Cup, Sundae Cup TrackBattle cars (with safety additions) and a new class, GRIDLIFE ClubSport, aimed at 18:1 power-to-weight ratio cars.

Which class is right for you? Here’s a quick breakdown of each of the three classes:

  • Gridlife Touring Club (GTC): The same as the Touring Cup sprint rules–12.5:1 factory power-to-weight ratio, weight percentage and tire width modifiers for competition balance.
  • Gridlife Club Sport (GCS): This is the class for Spec Miatas or similar. 18:1 factory power-to-weight ratio, no aftermarket splitters or wings but engine swaps are allowed in OEM engine locations.
  • Gridlife Sundae Club (SC): Low cost meets high-value fun. B-Spec cars are allowed, as are minor bolt-ons. 25:1 factory power-to-weight ratio.

The first event on the SuperGrid schedule is set for October 21-23 at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex, in Wampum, Pennsylvania.

Full details on SuperGrid Grand Prix can be found at grid.life.

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Comments
trigun7469
trigun7469 UltraDork
9/1/22 2:30 p.m.

Champcar tried something similar but they did (4) 1 hour races instead of (2) 3 hour races. So my Guess each driver would get 1 hour 25 minutes if you have 4 drivers. Oct 21-23, better bring your snow tires.

RadBarchetta
RadBarchetta New Reader
9/2/22 9:23 a.m.

LOL at a 3-hour race being considered an "endurance" race. That's 1.5 stints at most.

Adamjabaay
Adamjabaay New Reader
9/3/22 5:15 p.m.

That seems pretty Enduro to a sprint racer.   It's definitely not aimed at replacing long enduros, more at providing a unique and fun race weekend with various types and lengths of racing, targeted at cars not generally catered to in Enduro world

Sonic
Sonic UberDork
9/3/22 9:59 p.m.

3 hours is like one stint for us with a fuel cell.  I've done as long as 4.5.  Nice to see them trying something different though

Tom Suddard
Tom Suddard GRM+ Memberand Director of Marketing & Digital Assets
9/4/22 9:15 a.m.

Sounds like a cool idea and I'm always happy to see Gridlife branching out. Can't wait to try one!

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