21-Year-Old Matan Rosenberg Becomes Two-Time Eibach GLTC Champion

Last October, Matan Rosenberg, a 21-year old from the Cleveland, Ohio area, won the Eibach GRIDLIFE Touring Cup Championship at Pittsburgh International Race Complex. His season was impressive, winning more races (10) than any other driver and racking up 29 top 5s in 32 starts. While he undoubtedly earned his title, the news before the 2024 finale that championship leader Luke McGrew sold his car helped pave the path for Rosenberg’s title - and in 2025, he followed through with another incredible season to win championship number two.

The season began back in April in South Carolina, where Rosenberg debuted a striking new livery, a white and blue color scheme prominently featuring Falken Tires and Eibach, two new partners for 2025. With the new colors came a new setup, more power and more weight. While on paper his performances at Carolina Motorsports Park were strong (two 2nds, a 3rd, and a 1st) the car seemed to struggle in comparison to Eric Kutil’s light weight Honda Civic, a JTCC-styled build Kutil set up for a third season after his crash chasing a championship in 2022. Kutil won the first two races in dominant fashion, setting the stage for a season-long battle between the powerful, ground-pounding Corvette and the agile Civic sedan. 

At Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, the rain came - dousing the treacherous 2.54-mile course in a shiny slick of moisture. Here, Rosenberg deployed his Corvette to winning effect - three wins, and a 12th, in a shortened race 4. He and Kutil fought through the spray in races 2 and 3, with Rosenberg stealing a last lap pass to lock up his fourth win of the year.

GRIDLIFE Midwest Festival brought a third challenger, Eric Magnussen, the driver of a gold LS-swapped #330 BMW M3 in his second season of GRIDLIFE competition. Magnussen arrived at GingerMan Raceway ready to fight - and scored three wins and a sixth, earning him his first ever weekend win. Rosenberg traded seconds and thirds with Kutil all weekend long, a second and three thirds to Kutil’s three seconds and a third. 

All three of the championship front-runners arrived at Mid-Ohio ready to race at a track that has historically been very strong for Eibach GLTC’s parity, offering a mix of slow, medium, and high speed corners, with two longer straights to let the bigger cars stretch their legs. Here, Rosenberg collected three more podiums and a race win, and took the lead of the title race from Eric Kutil.

The next two rounds were a peak and valley for Rosenberg’s season. Road America, affectionately called “America’s National Park of Speed” gave Rosenberg’s Corvette ample room to reach top speed. He won three of four races here, despite a race three slip up that sent him through the gravel. He rallied from 7th to 4th in the closing laps, and went on to win race 4 and the weekend. The change from GRIDLIFE’s largest circuit to the smallest, Lime Rock Park, in Lakeville, Connecticut, saw a huge change in performance for Matan’s Corvette. While for most drivers, two 10ths and two 12ths would be a solid weekend, it allowed Eric Kutil to close in, ramping up the pressure for the championship lead. The two were neck and neck now, with drop races calculating as only the best 14 races (plus the points from the Pitt Race season finale) are counted.

The field then descended on Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Illinois, where Matan racked up another trio of podiums - again, a solid outing, but Kutil’s three wins and a second knocked Rosenberg out of the lead of the points. Rosenberg and team then travelled 3,000 miles across the United States to participate in one of GRIDLIFE’s biggest parties, the GRIDLIFE Laguna Festival at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. For the third year in a row, Rosenberg brought a winning weapon, scoring a victory in an intense race 3 over Justin Ross on the last lap while passing traffic. He also scored two seconds and a third, putting him back in control of the championship by eight points.

Then, Pitt Race. The GRIDLIFE season finale offers up 103 points for a perfect weekend - four race wins and 3 more points for pole position in qualifying. Matan earned one point for third place in qualifying. However, a new final boss surprised the field, returning 2022 champion Tom O’Gorman, who scored pole in his #94 Honda S2000, called Trainer 3, at the time, the winningest car GRIDLIFE Touring Cup.  When the green flag dropped for race 1, O’Gorman led early on, but eventually slipped up in the fast esses, allowing Rosenberg to scamper off while Kutil battled O’Gorman and Andy Smedegard. For the rest of the weekend, Rosenberg and his car were nearly unbeatable, with the only exception coming with the seven-car invert in race 4, allowing Magnussen to finish strong with a win in the last race of the season. Regardless, Matan had already mathematically locked up the title in race 3, and earned a total of 427 points in 2025.

Matan Rosenberg’s Eibach GRIDLIFE Touring Cup championship earns him a trip of a lifetime - an all-expenses paid trip to Germany to tour title sponsor Eibach’s facility as they celebrate their 75th anniversary next fall. Rosenberg will also get the chance to drive on the Nürburgring Nordschleife as part of the prize, courtesy of EVN Ring Rentals. At just 21 years old, he is the youngest two-time champion of any GRIDLIFE series, and sports incredible stats after this year of intense competition. 32 starts, 12 wins, 28 podiums, 30 top 5s, and 33 top 10s, with an average finish of 4.0. The 2025 season was the most competitive on record, with 13 unique race winners and eight unique car models represented in the top 10 in the season points. Matan’s Corvette now has 25 total Eibach GLTC wins, 12 of those coming this season. The car has now won more races than any other car, leaving a winning legacy in the #484.

Below is a gallery of images from Rosenberg’s title run courtesy of GRIDLIFE staff photographer Rob Wilkinson.