During the last Ice age, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered a wide swath of the North American continent, from the Artic Circle to as far south as St. Louis, Missouri. Effectively a massive glacier, the Laurentide Ice Sheet is responsible for most of the geography of the northern United States and Canada. In Wisconsin, the Green Bay Lobe and Lake Michigan Lobe of the Laurentide collided, creating a moraine of sediment and glacial till that, over the years since, has formed a mixture of kettle lake-filled valleys and hills that can rise up hundreds of feet. This rolling hillside is what makes Road America a driver's track. Running a tick over four miles per lap and hosting fourteen turns that vary between tight and technical and flat-out, Road America is a road racer's rollercoaster, with 171 feet of elevation change throughout the lap with the Kettle Moraine State Forest just off to the west. In early October, that means a gorgeous mix of autumnal leaf colors on the trees as the cars of GRIDLIFE go tearing by in the final race of the 2021 season.

Feras Qartoumy's 2008 Corvette (seen here being pursued by Mike DuSold's Camaro) laid out scorching times around Road America, culminating with a 2.04.877 lap on Sunday.

While the winners of the GRIDLIFE championships are notable in their own right, it is Feras Qartoumy who stole the show with his C6 Corvette. Qartoumy posted up an absolutely blistering 2:04.877 lap around Road America with a top trapped speed of 183 mph before turn five, which you can see in the video below by skipping to 3:42. How fast is that in the grand scheme of things? On Road America's record board, that lap slots between Nick Tandy's Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GT LeMans car (2.02.281) and Kyffin Simpson's FRAC Ligier JS F3 (2.06.069), both of which were designed from the ground up as purpose-built racing machines.

Road America is the final round for physical racing for GRIDLIFE, but there is one more event to take in: GRIDLIFE GameNight in Las Vegas, Nevada, presented on stage at the HyperX ESports Arena, with a feature race between eight SEMA show attendees on stage and 16 GRIDLIFE iRacers who are at home. If you are attending SEMA, stop by the GRIDLIFE SEMA booth (20167) and put down a lap time. Place high enough, and you could get a chance to run against the pack!

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