Champions curse

The Champions curse is a superstition in reference to the string of bad luck the defending GR All-Oval Championship champion gets in the year after becoming the champion. Similar to other sports-related "curses", the "Champions curse" is considered as a tongue-in-cheek reference.

The curse started with the first ever series champion, Kylie Morgan. After her championship win in 2015, the following year was beyond terrible to Kylie, who, although won the 2016 Race of Miami, suffered a badly broken arm while practicing for the 2016 Race of Motegi, therefore missing several rounds. Ever since that year, Kylie disappeared from racing for a while, before returning as a part-timer, always with uninspiring results.

Dylan Martinelli, Wade Bray, Jennifer Stracqualursi and Jodie Hill also became champions. Of the four, only Jodie Hill was a title contender in the year after his championship. Hill, however, failed to win the title in 2020.

Kylie Morgan
Kylie Morgan became the first ever champion of the GR All-Oval in 2015 after defeating Brett Riley in the 2015 The Finale.

The following year started great for Kylie, with a win in Miami and a pole-position start in Charlotte. After the Charlotte race, Kylie was in 2nd place in the standings. However, everything changed while she was practicing for the next round, in Motegi. A crash at turn 3 and a broken left arm. She would return in round 9, at Michigan, but it was obviously enough that Kylie wasn't on the same level she used to be. In both Michigan and Gateway, she didn't qualify to the races. The latter, however, was her final race in the series for a while.

Kylie, however, returned in 2019, as a part-timer. She finished 24th in Dover, 3 laps behind, 22nd in Charlotte, 1 lap down, and 20th in Texas, also 1 lap down. Also as a part-timer in 2020, her best result was a 17th in Pikes Peak.