Universities support football, basketball, baseball, and countless other competitive programs. Yet despite the incredible talent and passion for motorsports found on campuses across the country, there was no organized pathway connecting racing, workforce development, and experiential education.

Determined to change that, Hobbs founded Clemson Tiger Racing, a student-led endurance racing team that gave students hands-on experience in engineering, operations, marketing, leadership, and team management while competing on track. Through building the program, it became clear that what students at Clemson needed wasn't unique. Universities across the country were facing the same challenge.

The opportunity was bigger than one school.

After graduating, Hobbs partnered with fellow motorsports enthusiasts and entrepreneurs Senter Smith, Todd Buras, and Peter Saddington to bring the vision to life. Together, they founded the Collegiate Racing Series with a shared mission: to create the nation's premier collegiate motorsports platform.

When CRS officially launched on February 20, 2025, the response exceeded everyone's expectations. More than 1,500 students, faculty members, and industry professionals joined the inaugural interest call, confirming what the founders already believed: there was tremendous demand for a true collegiate motorsports championship.

Today, the Collegiate Racing Series has become a national movement with involvement spanning more than 70 universities across the country.

Through competition, engineering projects, team operations, leadership development, and industry engagement, students are gaining real-world experience that extends far beyond the racetrack. Motorsports serves as the ultimate systems integration challenge, bringing together engineering, business, communications, operations, data analysis, leadership, and teamwork in ways few educational experiences can.

Now, students from universities across the country are competing wheel-to-wheel in the inaugural Collegiate Racing Series season, battling for the first-ever National Championship in collegiate motorsports history on August 1-2 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

What began as a vision in a college dining hall has become a nationwide movement that's redefining experiential education, preparing students for the workforce, and creating a new era of collegiate competition.

And we're just getting started.