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2020 Grassroots Racing Calendar: Put These Events On Your Schedule

By Tommy Parry January 28, 2020Getting started racing is only the first step. Once you’ve got a running car and all the required gear, finding the category which suits you is another hurdle. To help make your life a little simpler, we’ve arranged a calendar featuring some of the big national events for grassroots racing in America.

This is by no means an all-encompassing calendar, nor does it include all the offering out there, but it does hit some of the major series. This should give you a good start on planning for the season (if you haven’t already) whether you’re looking for endurance, time attack, autocross, sprint, or door-to-door events.

American Endurance Racing

American Endurance Racing (AER) is a relatively new series with open rules to allow all sorts of drivers and vehicles. It has even developed its own timing system which can move a particular car into another class mid-race if their pace differs too much from their competitors.

Few series will allow such a wide range of vehicles; one field in AER could include both Class A LeMons cars and World Challenge rockets. Drivers with a racing license with a major sanctioning body, drivers who’ve competed in five LeMons or Champ Car races, or drivers with a proven record of substantial track time are all eligible to enter this interesting new series.
Few series boast fields as diverse as AER’s. Photo credit: American Endurance Racing

February 14-16, 2020

ROAD ATLANTA

June 25-28, 2020

NEW JERSEY MOTORSPORTS PARK

April 3-5, 2020

PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL RACE COMPLEX

September 11-13, 2020

SUMMIT POINT MOTORSPORTS PARK

May 5-10, 2020

WATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL

Oct 23-25, 2020

MID-OHIO SPORTS CAR COURSE

#Gridlife

Combining music, drifting, time attack, and road racing, the Gridlife events are something special. Nothing on the North American continent rivals the ambiance at these colorful weekends — only Rudskogen comes close, and that requires a long trip across the Atlantic.
Hugely powerful oddities like this bewinged Lancer Evo are a regular sight at Gridlife. Photo credit: Carpenterdesign/CC BY-SA 4.0

February 15-16, 2020

CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS

Gridlife Touring Cup COTA Special

June 4-7, 2020

GINGERMAN RACEWAY

The Gridlife Midwest Festival

This event welcomes over 20,000 spectators to GingerMan Raceway for 4 incredible days of music, camping, and car culture immersion.

April 18-19, 2020

NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM

Trackbattle Grand Circuit

August 20-23, 2020

PIKES PEAK INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY

Gridlife Alpine Horizon Festival

Over 30 performances across three stages, hundreds of race cars on track, the world’s best drifters, Esports, car show, camping, and amazing food in an all-access environment ensures one of the wildest racing weekends ever.