GRIDLIFE Announces New “Circuit Legends Festival” at Lime Rock Park for Summer ‘22
GRIDLIFE hosted it’s the “State of the Grid” press conference on Friday at the 2021 PRI Show where they revealed their 2022 Competition Calendar, and announced their plans for a new festival expansion to the Northeast called “Circuit Legends” to be hosted at Lime Rock Park, scheduled for August 19-20 at the celebrated circuit in Connecticut.
Circuit Legends is a new festival concept for GRIDLIFE, who are known for their innovative motorsports festivals around the United States. The Circuit Legends concept will be a new motorsports festival experience, celebrates automotive culture of the Mid ‘80s through Mid ‘00s by featuring vehicles that represent “The Golden Age of touring car racing”.
“The Circuit Legends concept will be Grid Life’s Concours Event. It’s a car culture and motorsports showcase designed for the younger generation that was brought up on Speedvision, BTCC, DTM, JTCC, etc. We will celebrate automotive heroes as our headliners to bring a legendary group of 80s-90s-00s racing vehicles together for this inaugural event.”
-Chris Stewart – GRIDLIFE Founder and Experience Director
The Circuit Legends Festival is a collaboration between GRIDLIFE and Lime Rock Park, who will co-produce this event. GRIDLIFE’s fresh approach to grassroots racing at a legendary track like Lime Rock Park will result in a stand-out motorsports event that will return to the park year after year.
“We’ve been working to deliver the best experience possible for our guests, and debuting Circuit Legends at Lime Rock Park is a truly exciting addition to our 2022 schedule. “Circuit Legends” reflects our ambition to introduce Lime Rock Park to a new audience in partnership with GridLife. The track has several events, and we are eager for our fans to experience this new addition to our schedule in August.”
-Dicky Riegel, Lime Rock Park President and CEO
At Circuit Legends of Lime Rock, fans will be able to see their racing heroes and at speed. On track, GRIDLIFE will bring its HPDE, TrackBattle Time Attack, the exciting wheel to wheel GRIDLIFE Touring Cup (GLTC), and a special “Legends session” where the legacy touring cars will be on track at speed in a shootout style showcase.
More details will be released in the coming months as production of Circuit Legends at Lime Rock Park begins.
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About GRIDLIFE:
Founded in 2014, GRIDLIFE is a motorsports event and lifestyle brand based in Chicago with a philosophy of motorsports inclusion to make racing more accessible to their diverse young audience. GRIDLIFE produces track days and festivals around the US with a focus on fun, high production experience and content, and driver development with programs ranging from beginner to advanced wheel to wheel racing. Motorsports include: HPDE / Track Day, TrackBattle Time Attack, GRIDLIFE Touring Cup (GLTC) wheel to wheel racing, Drift and more.
Sources: Lime Rock Park PR