Gridlife Circuit Legends revs up Lime Rock Park

Gridlife Circuit Legends revs up Lime Rock Park

Race cars took the track for events all day Friday, Aug. 16 and Saturday, Aug. 17 at Lime Rock Park. Gridlife Circuit Legends celebrated its third year at the park with a packed weekend of drifting and racing.

Photo by Nathan Miller

LIME ROCK — Gridlife Circuit Legends returned to Lime Rock Park this year for an action-packed weekend of racing and drifting Friday, Aug. 16 and Saturday, Aug. 17.

It's the third year that the racing festival has come to Lime Rock Park. Visitors had several options to attend the races, from individual day passes to camping on the infield all weekend long.

Photo by Nathan Miller

Hundreds of people streamed onto the racetrack over the course of the weekend to watch time trials, touring car races and the Model 3 challenge, a race of Tesla Model 3 cars.

Gridlife Circuit Legends touts itself as a celebration of modern custom race cars. Races in different classes ran throughout the day Friday and Saturday.

Drifting events wowed spectators at the racetrack. The cars zoomed around Lime Rock’s windy road course, burning rubber around every corner.

Throughout the weekend racers competed in the Gridlife Touring Car races, a series of eight races to test the mettle of the cars and drivers in attendance.

The event attracted some high profile drivers, like T-Pain, who drove a Nissan 240SX for Hert Life.

The “hot concours” hosted racers and their crews as guests meandered and talked cars with the experts. Everyone had to watch their backs, however, as race cars rolled back and forth from their parking spots out to the racetrack.

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