3rd Annual Scholarship SHOOTOUT
PRESENTED BY COOPER TIRES
December 14 - 16, 2021 | Sebring, Florida
We Train Champions
Follow The Path of Champions
For the 3rd year, we are inviting the best young drivers from karts to try their hands at racing a real formula car in our challenging multi-day Scholarship Shootout Presented By Cooper Tires.
During this epic shootout, you will get to drive our thrilling Lucas Oil Ray GR-RSC Formula cars, receive coaching for professional driver instructors, and learn from our expert panelists about managing your career in motorsports. It’s not just a shootout – it’s also professional training that will catapult you forward on your path of becoming a professional race car driver.
Competition Fee: $4,999
GRAND PRIZE
$75,000 Scholarship
Lucas Oil Formula Car Series
Full 2022 Summer Season
2nd Place: Half 2022 Summer Season
(9 races)
3rd Place: Full 2022 Winter Season
(4 races)
4th Place: Half 2022 Winter Season
(2 races)
Application Steps
Step 1: Successfully Complete Our Basic Racing School
Prospective scholarship participants must, at a minimum, complete our Basic Racing School program, but are also encouraged to take our Advanced Racing Schools.
Step 2: Apply to the Scholarship Shootout
While we will get an opportunity to see your driving up close at our Racing Schools, we know your racing résumé has more to it and we want to hear all about it.
Step 3: Selection
If you are selected, you will receive a formal invitation to participate in the 2021 Lucas Oil Scholarship Shootout. If selected, the entry fee is $4,999 and must be paid in advance of the Shootout.
Shootout Highlights
- Five on-track lapping sessions to show your skills
- Development of your race craft
- Instruction from current and previous racing champions
- In car video included (when available)
- Arrive & Drive - we provide our professionally prepared race cars
- Paddle shifter gear selection - no clutch experience necessary
- Broadcast television & media training
- Social media management
- Fitness training
- Business management lessons
Call with ANY questions
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Shootout Eligibility requirements
- While you can apply at any time, you must successfully complete one of our Basic Racing Schools to be accepted into the Shootout
- Have no prior competitive* open-wheel road racing experience beyond our School Series (*testing and/or less-than-competitive performance in upper ladder series is okay)
- Prior karting and/or sim racing experience preferred
- There is no limit on the number of Lucas Oil Schools or Race Events attended, and many prior participants have attended multiple schools and races to gain a competitive edge
- Minimum driver height is 5 feet 0 inches (152cm)
- Drivers 12 and older with documented racing or race car testing experience submitted for approval. The more detail you provide, the better.
These requirements are general guidelines. Any exceptions to these requirements is at the sole discretion of Lucas Oil School of Racing. If you have any questions on eligibility, please send us an application and we can review.
Intensive Professional Training
Schedule Overview
In our unique Scholarship Shootout Presented By Cooper Tires, drivers will receive training on essential topics related to becoming a professional race car driver.
Becoming a professional driver isn’t just about being fast on-track – what happens off-track can be as instrumental to success as what you’re able to do in the car.
Off-track, participants will receive:
- Media training with on-camera interviews
- Business lessons with tips for how to find sponsorship and build budget
- Social media management and guidance
- Simulation training
- Fitness training
- Parents-only Seminar – How to Be a Motorsports Parent
On-track, participants will have five separate lapping sessions to demonstrate all the skills they have developed and why they deserve to be our Scholarship Shootout Winner.
A Tale of Two Champions
A Perfect Pairing
Shootout Winners. Series Champions. Road to Indy Drivers.
Our 2018 Shootout Winner, Prescott Campbell, and our 2019 Winner, Ely Navarro, have quite a bit in common. Both of course won our Scholarship Shootout. Both would subsequently go on to claim the Lucas Oil Formula Car Series in their first year. Both would claim the series scholarship to enter the Road to Indy USF2000 series. And fittingly the two are now teammates for the 2021 season with DEForce Racing.
The pair illustrate just how powerful and transformative the Lucas Oil Scholarship Shootout is for aspiring professional race car drivers. It’s not just the shootout winners that benefit from the education that comes from the Scholarship Shootout program. Many of our participants have taken the invaluable education they received from our program and used what they learned to propel them to the Road to Indy and other professional driving championships. And that is what all of our participants have in common – an unmatched learning opportunity that will serve them throughout their motorsports career.
Prescott Campbell
Ely Navarro
