Over the weekend of July 26th the inaugural GRIDLIFE Summer Apex music and motorsports festival took place at Road America in Elkhart Lake. Over 16,000 car aficionados and music lovers alike attended the festival.
The festival featured 130 show cars and 378 drivers participating in on-track competitions and freestyle open drifting sessions, plus music performances by both regional DJs and main stage headliners deadmau5 and Liquid stranger on saturday night.
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Friday night featured a two-hour karaoke party hosted by T-Pain. Karaoke wasn’t limited to only festivalgoers; driver and motorsports content creator TJ Hunt joined T-Pain on stage during karaoke to sing the hit “Bartender” by T-Pain after securing two first place wins on the track earlier that day.
GRIDLIFE Summer Apex lived up to the name of a “Music Festival at High Speed” when pro-driver Mike DuSold broke the GRIDLIFE overall track record with a lap time of 2:04:58 reaching north of 200 miles per hour in his 1967 Camaro. DuSold was one of over 100 cars in seven different classes competing in the GRIDLIFE NOS Energy TrackBattle Championship.
GRIDLIFE Summer Apex will be returning to Road America in 2025 and has joined a series of annual events that merge music and motorsports, including GRIDLIFE Midwest, GRIDLIFE Laguna, and GRIDLIFE South Carolina.
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