Watkins Glen Short
League racing nights in the Paddock trailer, Fridays 7–10 PM. Two races guaranteed, one series, every driver in the same MX-5, so it comes down to you.
$75 season entry + $15 a night. Your entry reserves your spot every night.
Season: 8 Fridays, Nov 20 to Jan 22 (no league on Christmas or New Year's Day). Best 6 of weeks 1–7 count · Week 8 = championship finale, points doubled. If weather calls off a night, the rest of the season moves back one Friday (finale Fri Jan 29).
You race inside our trailer: four pro sim rigs, side by side.
Standings open after Round 1
The table goes up here after Fri Nov 20.
Bold = round win. Struck through = your dropped round. F = finale, points doubled.
- Each heat: 10 / 7 / 5 / 3, plus 1 for the fastest clean lap.
- Each night: your heat points add up. Two sessions, two heats, one night total.
- Who scores: season entrants only. Enter after a round has passed and you simply score nothing for it, which your dropped round can absorb.
- Season: 8 Fridays, Nov 20 to Jan 22. Best 6 of weeks 1–7 count · Week 8 = championship finale.
- Champion: your best 6 of weeks 1–7, plus your finale points doubled. Most points wins. Ties go to more round wins, then the better finale finish.
- Rookie Cup for first-season drivers.
- One series, one table: the Roadster Cup (MX-5). Every driver races the same car and scores in one set of standings, and there is one champion.
The season champion wins a MOZA R5 Pro Bundle (wheel base, wheel and pedals; it needs a Windows PC), plus a trophy and custom embroidered racing gloves.
Open to season entrants. Won on the championship result only, never a raffle. Fixed, non-cash prizes.
Schedule
On the grid this fall
- R1Fri Nov 20 · Watkins Glen ShortRoadster Cup (MX-5)
- R2Fri Nov 27 · Lime RockRoadster Cup (MX-5)
- R3Fri Dec 4 · Laguna Seca confirms Nov 29Roadster Cup (MX-5)
- R4Fri Dec 11 · NJMP Lightning confirms Nov 29Roadster Cup (MX-5)
- R5Fri Dec 18 · Road Atlanta confirms Nov 29Roadster Cup (MX-5)
- R6Fri Jan 8 · VIR North confirms Nov 29Roadster Cup (MX-5)
- R7Fri Jan 15 · Summit Point confirms Nov 29Roadster Cup (MX-5)
- FFri Jan 22 · Bridgehampton (Long Island's lost track) confirms Nov 29Championship finale · Roadster Cup (MX-5)
- MFri Jan 29 · Make-up nightOnly if weather calls off a night: every round after it moves back one Friday, so the finale lands here. No league on Christmas or New Year's Day.
We race outdoors at the trailer, so every night is weather permitting. The call is made by Thursday 6 PM and posted on this page.
If a night is called off, it moves to the next Friday and every later round moves back one Friday with it, so the finale (and the champion) lands on Fri Jan 29. Your ticket moves with its round. If you can't make the new date, you get a refund.
Driver rules
Drivers 13+. Drivers 13 to 17 need a parent or guardian to sign their waiver.
- Season entry: $75, one time. It reserves your spot on every league night, and it's required to score championship points and to be eligible for the champion's prize. 16 entries, one for each spot on the grid.
- Entrants pay $15 for each night they race, ahead online or at check-in. No auto-billing, no card on file. Can't make a night? You owe nothing for it. If you paid that night's $15 ahead and don't race, just ask and we'll refund it.
- Enter on this page, through the end of the Round 2 night, Fri Nov 27, if spots remain. At the trailer, staff will point you here. When all 16 are taken the league is full: join the waitlist and we'll contact you if an entry opens up.
- Enter after a round has passed and you simply score nothing for it, which your one dropped round can absorb.
- Rounds 3 to 8 are confirmed after Round 2 (Sun Nov 29). If the season is ended early, entrants get a prorated refund of the entry for the rounds not run.
- Not in the league? You can still drive as a regular customer at our normal walk-up price, on a rig that isn't in use for a league heat.
- Two sessions a night, two races guaranteed, both in the same spec MX-5.
- Each heat is about 15 minutes: 5 min qualifying, then a 10 min race.
- Practice laps are at check-in, 6:30 to 7 PM.
- Qualifying sets the grid. Driving aids are your choice; the stopwatch decides.
- First-timers race first-timers in heat 1. Heat 2 is drawn on heat-1 points.
- One series: the Roadster Cup (MX-5). One set of standings, one champion.
- Eight rounds. Your best 6 of weeks 1–7 count, plus the Week 8 finale, points doubled.
- Ties go to more round wins, then the better finale finish.
- Only season entrants race the heats and score points.
- The champion wins a MOZA R5 Pro Bundle, plus a trophy and custom embroidered racing gloves. Open to season entrants, won on the championship result only, never a raffle.
- Cut laps don't count for best lap.
- Clearly deliberate contact is penalized. The race director's call is final.
- No food or drinks in the trailer.
- Spectators are welcome and free.
Take your laps home
Scan the QR on your rig's screen. Your laps, best lap and top speed open on your phone. Nothing is uploaded: the laps live in the link itself.
Season entrants' heats and points are saved under their display name for the standings. Ask us any time and we delete them.
Drivers under 18 appear by display name only.