Le Mans Virtual Series Race 2 at Spa-Francorchamps entry list unveiled

This weekend, the second race in the Le Mans Virtual Series will take place at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. On Tuesday, the entry list for the 6 Hours of Spa Virtual was released, uncovering the 114 drivers that will compete on the 38 official teams utilizing the rFactor 2 platform.

Each team will be composed of three drivers, one of which needs to be a designated Pro, FIA graded driver. There are plenty of returning faces to the second round, but there are also a slew of new drivers that will duke it out over the six-hour event. As it will be all season, both LMP2 and GTE classes will go to battle, racing against each other, this time around the 7.004-kilometer, 4.352-mile circuit in Belgium.

There are some drivers on the entry list that weren’t announced at the time of the original roster reveal. Of course, due to other mitigating circumstances, there have been new drivers approved by the Le Mans Virtual Series committee to compete in the event. Those names have been approved and are marked on the entry list below.

Some of the real driving talent in the LMP2 class includes NTT IndyCar’s Felix Rosenqvist, teamed with Atze Kerkhof and Bono Huis in the Team Redline No. 123, as well as FIA F3 Vice Champion Jack Doohan driving the No. 11 for Red Bull Racing Esports with Alex Siebel and Dennis Jordan. Another FIA F3 star, Caio Collet, will look to keep the Realteam Hydrogen Redline No. 70 atop the standings together with Jeffrey Rietveld and Michal Smidl.

The winning combination in the LMGTE class at Monza, the No. 91 Porsche Esports Team, will return in full with Mitchell deJong, Mack Bakkum and Martin Krönke taking turns behind the wheel. The LMGTE runner ups at Monza, the No. 71 BMW Team Redline machines, will also retain their Monza lineup with Rudy van Buren, Enzo Bonito and Kevin Siggy.

NTT IndyCar Series and recent NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Sage Karam will make his Le Mans Virtual Series debut in the other Porsche Esports Team car, the No. 92, driving with Joshua Rogers and Tommy Østgaard for the six-hour show.

Other notable drivers include Tom Dillman (Formula E reserve driver) racing with the No. 4 Floyd ByKolles-Burst team, Ryan Cullen (LMP2 driver) racing with GR Wolves Racing in the No. 87 Porsche, and Jonny Edgar (current ADAC F4 champion) in the No. 111 Red Bull Racing Esports Corvette.

Each of the teams had to submit their three selected drivers from their already announced rosters for the esports championship, as they will for each individual round. A minimum of one driver is required to be FIA graded per event unless approved otherwise. Teams signed up to five drivers for the season with a minimum of two required to be FIA graded before the season began.

It was mentioned in the press release that rFactor 2’s dynamic weather system could be in play, which could mean a realistic, unpredictable race could unfold on the Belgium circuit. Monza was relatively bright and sunny, so weather could throw a wrench into everyone’s plans.

Qualifying for the weekend show starts Friday 15th October at 6 p.m. BST (7 pm CEST, 1:00 pm ET) with the session being broadcasted live. As it was last time, the broadcast will also include the second race of the Le Mans Virtual Cup, a competition open to all rFactor 2 drivers via the rFactor 2 competition system.

The main event, the 6 Hours of Spa Virtual, will take place on Saturday 16th October, with the six-hour race starting at 12.30 pm BST (1.30 pm CEST, 7.30 am ET). All of the action will be live on the Traxion.GG YouTube and Twitch channels.

CIRCUIT DE SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS ENTRY LIST

No.	ORECA 07 LMP2 Team	PRO DRIVERS	SIM DRIVERS
1	Rebellion GPX Williams	Louis Deletraz	Nikodem Wisniewski Kuba Brzezinski
2	Rocket Simsport	Alex Buncombe	Devin Braune Matt Richards
4	Floyd ByKolles-Burst	Tom Dillmann	Jesper Pedersen Jernej Simončič
5	Williams Esports	Jarno D’Hauw	Alex Arana Petar Brljak
8	R8G ESPORTS	Gordon Mutch	Erhan Jajovski Hany Alsabti
10	MAHLE RACING TEAM	Philippe Denes	Mohammed Patel Michele D’Alessandro
11	Red Bull Racing Esports	Jack Doohan	Alex Siebel Dennis Jordan
14	Race Clutch Alpine	Paul Adrien Pallot	Rory MacDuff Tom Lartilleux
15	Race Clutch Alpine	Romain Boeckler	Eneric André Borja Milan
18	R8G ESPORTS	Arthur Rougier	Risto Kappet Thibault Cazaubon
21	Axle Sports	Naquib Azlan	Josh Purwien Ar Muhammad Aleef
22	GPX Rebellion Williams	Yifei Ye	Jiri Toman Marcell Csincsik
31	Esports Team WRT	Ryuichiro Tomita	Arne Schoonvliet Fabrice Cornelis
38	JOTA	Mike Epps	Ibraheem Khan Daniel Kiss
44	ARC Bratislava	Dávid Nemček	Dennis Zeták Jakub Štofko
49	YAS HEAT	Will Tregurtha	Josh Lad Balázs Remenyik
65	Panis Racing	Will Stevens	Alessandro Ottaviani Tobias Pfeffer
70	Realteam Hydrogen Redline	Caio Collet	Jeffrey Rietveld Michal Smidl
123	Team Redline	Felix Rosenqvist	Atze Kerkhof Bono Huis
444	Alpha Ind. ByKolles-Burst	Bent Viscaal	Michi Hoyer Dawid Mroczek
966	Team Fordzilla	Luke Browning	Pablo López Padín Nuno Pinto
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No.	LMGTE TEAM	PRO DRIVERS	SIM DRIVERS
51	FDA Esports Team – Ferrari	David Perel	Jordi Zwiers Martin Dyrlund
55	BMW Team GB – BMW	Agustin Canapino	Martin Stefanko Jack Keithley
56	Team Project 1 x BPM – Porsche	Bradley Philpot	Tim Neuendorf Pero Stoyanov Peev
57	Team Project 1 x BPM – Porsche	Nicolas Hillebrand	Zbigniew Siara Bram Beelen
61	Axle Sports – Porsche	Mikko Nassi	Amir Haziq Davide Arduini
66	SIMMSA Esports – Ferrari	Ramez Azzam	Andreas Schmich Armin Binder
71	BMW Team Redline – BMW	Rudy van Buren	Enzo Bonito Kevin Siggy
77	Proton Competition – Porsche	Loek Hartog	Kevin van Dooren Jeremy Bouteloup
86	GR Wolves Racing – Porsche	Nick Foster	Adam Maguire Turkka Hakkinen
87	GR Wolves Racing – Porsche	Ryan Cullen	Philipp Puschke Chris McDade
88	Proton Competition – Porsche	Dylan Pereira	Charlie Collins Dayne Warren
89	BMW Team BS+Competition – BMW	Laurin Heinrich	Alen Terzic Joonas Raivio
91	Porsche Esports Team – Porsche	Mitchell deJong	Mack Bakkum Martin Krönke
92	Porsche Esports Team – Porsche	Sage Karam	Joshua Rogers Tommy Østgaard
111	Red Bull Racing Esports – Corvette	Jonny Edgar	Yuri Kasdorp Nestor Garcia
777	D’Station Racing – Aston Martin	Joāo Paulo de Oliveira	Yusuke Tomibayashi Toshiya Nojima
888	TESLA R8G Esports – BMW	Simon Pilate	Florian Lebigre Timotej Andonovski