Michael Polasek is a pro sim racer, a kart racer, and real-world driver. He is ranked in top 0.1% of sim racers worldwide on iRacing, and is top 5 in the world in his preferred Touring Car class. Michael is the 2024 SRO eSports Champion, 2025 Nüburgring 24 Hours Top Split TCR winner, an IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Champion, Porsche Club of America National Champion, and he holds world records on several car and track combinations. His record lap times on the treacherous Mount Washington are legendary. He has three solo 12-hour Top Split race wins at Sebring, COTA, and Catalunya. He won the 2024 Top Split Road America 500 special event, where he had the opportunity to drive the vintage “GTO beast” all-wheel-drive Audi Quattro.
Michael is highly competitive in karting, with multiple championship wins. His karting and sim experience has directly translated to outstanding performance on real-world tracks such as VIR, Sebring, Lime Rock, Watkins Glen, Pocono, and Thompson, being able to set pro-level lap times with very little acclimation time. Michael knows first-hand that excellence in sim training can make you extremely fast and consistent on track, and he is driven to provide those benefits to you to significantly improve your performance on track.
Michael holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology. This, combined with his deep experience in competition and in car and chassis setup, allows him to understand driving physics and vehicle dynamics from a mathematical perspective in addition to real-world experience. He is also very well versed in the gospel according to Ross Bentley, Carrol Smith, Skip Barber, etc.
Sim
- 8.5k+ iRating (top 0.1% globally) – top 5 worldwide in TCR class
- Multiple iRacing world record lap times
- Champion, 2025 top split Nürburgring 24 Hours – TCR class
- Winner SRO 2024 Toyota GR86 North America eSports Championship
- Solo victories in three major 12-hour top split iRacing international events
- Winner top split 2024 Road America 500 – Audi Quattro GTO
- National Champion, Team Race Champion, and Zone Group Champion – PCA
- Current leader 2025 ChampCar iRacing League Championship
- Champion, IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge and TCR “open setup” Champion
- Represented team USA in Hyundai World Championship
Track
- Cars Driven: Toyota GR Cup Race Car, Spec Miata Race Car, Miata ChampCar, Porsche Spec Boxster, Porsche 996
- Track Experience: Sebring, Watkins Glen, Virginia Int. Raceway, Lime Rock, Pocono Raceway, NJMP, Thompson Speedway
- Karting: Champion, Supercharged Karting League (1st of 167 drivers); 4-time Grand Prix New York Champion: All-time track record holder, Andretti Karting (Orlando)
