Leo Ovtcharov
Formula Specialist · Delta Esports Driver
- 8.5k iRating in Formula cars (top 0.01%)
- Multiple world-record lap times in iRacing
- Race winner in top-level esports leagues
- Specializes in open-wheel driving technique
About GitGud Racing Academy
We exist to make
you measurably faster.
GitGud Racing Academy is a complete training platform for sim racers — structured courses, personal lap reviews from professional coaches, live workshops, weekly drills and a community that races together.
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1,500+Drivers Coached
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5,000+Course Students
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25M+Educational Views
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5+Years of Impact
Where it started
25 million views,
none of it behind a paywall.
Before there was an academy there was a YouTube channel. More than a thousand videos on driving technique — braking, rotation, racecraft, the things nobody explains properly — published free and still free today. It is how most of our members found us, and it is still the honest preview of how we coach.
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The track record
Five years of coaching,
written down as a method.
Between us the coaching team has spent more than 2,000 hours one-to-one with drivers — real-life racing drivers preparing for a season, and thousands of sim racers who simply wanted to stop guessing. The academy is that experience, turned into something you can follow — and what drivers say about it is in their own words.
- 2,000+ Hours of one-to-one coaching across the team.
- Pro and amateur From professional racing drivers to first-season sim racers.
- ~1 second What drivers typically find in their first month — our estimate from five years of coaching, not a tracked statistic.
A typical first month
Average lap time, not a single hot lap. The shape is illustrative.
Getting faster is the easy part.
Anyone can be handed a setup and a braking marker and go a bit quicker for a week. What our drivers leave with is the ability to look at their own lap and know what to work on next.
That is the difference between being coached and being taught. It is also why progress carries on long after a session ends.
About the founder
Meet Marian Barbieru.
I started GitGud Racing because I became obsessed with understanding why one driver is faster than another — not just copying braking points or setups, but understanding the technique behind the lap time.
That eventually grew into coaching drivers, building structured courses and working with other high-level racers to create a complete training system.
Today, the goal of the Academy is the same: give every driver a clear answer to “What should I work on next?”
Marian Barbieru
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1,500+Drivers Coached Worldwide
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5,000+Course Students
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25M+Educational Views
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5+Years Teaching Sim Racing
Why we built the academy
More practice doesn’t
always mean more improvement.
Sim racers can spend hundreds of hours driving without knowing whether they’re practicing the right things. We built GitGud Academy to remove the guesswork.
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Diagnose
Find what’s actually costing you time.
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Train
Use focused drills, courses and coaching to fix it.
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Review
Get feedback from experienced drivers and coaches.
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Repeat
Track your progress and move on to the next weakness.
Meet your instructors
Learn from elite drivers & coaches.
Learn from esports drivers and professional sim racing coaches who help drivers build speed through technique, structure and real-world racecraft.
Marian Barbieru
Sim Racing Coach & Course Creator
- Creator of the GITGUD Racing Courses
- Expert in driving technique & performance training
- Personal coaching for 1,500+ sim racers worldwide
- Built a system used by 5,000+ course students
Adrian Kulleseid
Sim Racing Coach · 8.5K iRated Driver
- 8.5K iRated — competing in the top 0.03%
- Coaches both real-life drivers and sim racers
- Turns complex problems into practical, repeatable improvements
Matteo Kuenzner
GT3 Specialist · Williams Esports Driver
- 10.1k iRating professional GT3 driver
- Williams Esports GT3 competitor
- Real-life racing driver
- Specializes in GT3, GT4 and prototype technique
Bradley Leenards
Formula & GTP Driver · BS+ Competition
- 10k iRating across Formula & GTP
- Formula & GTP main cars
- Driver for BS+ Competition
- Real-world karting background
Get started
Ready to find your missing seconds?
Structured courses, weekly lap reviews from professional coaches, live workshops and a private community — everything inside the Academy, built to find your missing seconds.