Sim racers will be tested May 13-15 for a chance to be drafted and receive
paid contracts to race in the Prodigy Racing League (PRL)
real-world series this fall
Max Papis and Jesse Iwuji among the experts at Prodigy Week
who will coach and judge drivers across multiple disciplines,
including racing in Radical SR1s
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 1, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Racing Prodigy™, a groundbreaking
sports, entertainment, and media property making motorsports more
accessible, today announced its official plans for Prodigy Week,
scheduled to take place at Atlanta Motorsports Park (AMP)
May 13-15, 2024. The conclusion of
Season 1 Prodigy Racing League™ (PRL™)
esports competitions marks the transition for 20 aspiring racers
from 10 countries - ages 15 to 45 including two female drivers –
who will receive all-expense-paid trips to pursue their dreams of
racing real cars professionally. They will compete to be drafted,
receiving paid contracts to compete in the PRL real-world racing
series beginning this fall.
The racers earned their golden tickets to Prodigy Week either by
winning an esports competition on iRacing, RaceRoom or Street
Kart Racing, or by being selected by Prodigy Search Committees.
During Prodigy Week, drivers will be coached and judged across
multiple disciplines, including fitness, on-camera interviews, skid
pad, autocross, racecar data review, and competing in Radical SR1
race cars on the main racetrack.
"Racing Prodigy takes another step forward in the world's first
e2Real sports league to make motorsports more accessible,"
said Racing Prodigy CEO David
Cook. "In our first season, we have witnessed over
100,000 sim racers from more than 100 countries compete across our
esports competitions, so we know there is high demand from drivers
who want to have a real-world racing career, and so does the
undiscovered talent. If the results of our first Prodigy Week part
1 last fall are any preview, we are confident the 20 drivers
competing at Prodigy Week part 2 will compete at the highest level
to earn their spots with our six racing teams participating in our
racing series launching this year."
Full coverage of Prodigy Week will be available live on Racing
Prodigy's YouTube channel, May
13-15. Fans will be able to vote to save their favorite
drivers during the Radical SR1 Chase Competition. For more
information and to be reminded once Prodigy Week starts, please
visit our Prodigy Week page.
The Prodigy Search Committees included Indy 500 driver
Katherine Legge, NASCAR driver
Boris Said, and former F1, IndyCar,
and NASCAR driver Max Papis, who
will be at Prodigy Week to coach and judge along with NASCAR driver
Jesse Iwuji, Mazda factory racing
driver Andrew Carbonell, and others.
Also attending and supporting are PitFit Training CEO Jim Leo, physio and cognitive specialist Dr.
Ashley Witson, clinical psychologist
Dr. Nick Molinaro, and Women in
Motorsports North America executive
director Cindy Sisson. Influencer
and driver Cameron Das and content
creator Random CallSign also served on the Prodigy Search
Committees.
Upon completion of this Prodigy Week, the 20 drivers will join
the 12 drivers from Prodigy Week last fall to have a chance to be
drafted into PRL's real-world racing series; they include
(name, country, age):
PRL Street Kart Racing PRJ Golden Ticket Series
Winners (mobile gaming)
Jai Fletcher, United
Kingdom, 20
Craig Laws, United Kingdom, 45
PRL RaceRoom Mazda MX-5 Cup Golden Ticket Series
Winners
Michael Romanidis,
Greece, 20
Leandro Werle, Brazil, 23
Kamil Pawlowski, Poland, 26
Nikodem Wisniewski, Poland, 29
PRL iRacing Mazda Spec MX-5 Golden Ticket Series
Winners
Matthew Caruana,
United Kingdom, 17
Edoardo Leo, Italy, 17
Brandon Hawkin, Canada, 26
Prodigy Search Committee Selections
Kamden Hibbitt, United
States, 15 (iRacing)
Julian Klaffenböck, Austria, 15
(rFactor 2)
Aimee Frame, United Kingdom, 17 (Street Kart Racing)
Roope Kurkipää, Finland, 18
(iRacing)
Thomas Bellemin, United States, 19 (iRacing)
William Redford, United Kingdom, 19 (iRacing)
Alexandro Vielma, United States, 19 (Street Kart Racing)
Mihai Neg, Romania, 24 (RaceRoom)
Brenna Schubert, United States, 24 (Street Kart Racing)
Jordan Johnson, United States, 25 (iRacing)
Nathan Maximin, United Kingdom, 26 (RaceRoom)
Racing Prodigy is a supporter of the Women in Motorsports
North America (WIMNA) event "Women with Drive" co-hosted by Parity,
taking place on the evening of May 3,
2024, as part of the Miami Grand Prix weekend. More than 100
leaders, influencers, race car drivers and notable industry
executives will gather at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &
Casino in Hollywood,
Florida to discuss the current climate of motorsports,
celebrate its continued growth, and look towards its future.
Racing Prodigy partners include Advanced SimRacing, Asetek
SimSports, Atlanta Motorsports Park, GRID Engineering, iRacing, Max
Papis Innovations (MPI), Mazda North American Operations, PitFit
Training, Primal Racing School, RaceRoom, Racing Mind Strategies,
Sim-Lab, SuckerPunch, Street Kart Racing, The Racers Physio, Toyo
Tires, and Women in Motorsports North
America (WIMNA).
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