The heart of the GRIDLIFE Festival experience. GRIDLIFE strives to be the beating heart of grassroots automotive and motorsports culture.

Pushing the boundaries of what’s cool, what’s possible, and what’s exciting in an immersive and accessible experience. Motorsports inclusion, and igniting car curiosity is our mission, and the Midwest Festival features an absolute overload of grassroots and pro car culture, all weekend long. The ever growing motorsports experience at GRIDLIFE features the fastest Time Attack cars in the world, the largest throw down of pro drift drivers, hair raising wheel to wheel racing with GLTC, car shows, Esports, overlanding, and more! GRIDLIFE will entice and ignite your passion or curiosity for automotive culture.

Formula DRIFT (also known as Formula D or FD) is a United States-based motorsport drifting series. Formula DRIFT was co-founded by Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage in 2003 as a sister company to Slipstream Global Marketing, the same partnership that introduced D1 Grand Prix to the United States. The new entity would solely own, operate and launch the first official drifting series in North America. Formula DRIFT is not affiliated with the FIA series of formula racing championships.

Formula DRIFT has 81 licensed drivers competing in PRO and PROSPEC (formerly PRO 2[2]) as of October 2023. The series consists of an eight-round championship played out at race tracks across North America. Formula DRIFT is judged on line, angle, and style, rather than who finishes the course in the fastest time.

Super Lap Battle 2023, America’s Ultimate Time Attack Challenge Recap

Time Attack, Wheel to Wheel racing, Drifting, and over 300+ show car with so many high-octane activities in one place Super Lap Battle (SLB) 2023 at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) was the event to attend for any automotive enthusiast.

It was a weekend full of adrenaline and excitement. The 70+ time attack competitors had their hands full with the challenging track layout of COTA. But Jackie Ding was able to set a new Street Class record with a time of 02:13.870.
Enthusiast class would see Jonathan Wheeler reset the record with fast lap of 02:26.800. Eric Fleming also set a new Limited Class record with a time of 02:12.217 in his Corvette…