All 180 drivers are now confirmed across the LMP and GTE classes for the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual.
When the clock strikes 2 pm CET on Saturday 14th January, 45 cars will start the day-long endurance race, and the line-up is a mix of FIA-graded motorsport competitors and some of the quickest professional esports drivers around.
F1, F2 and F3 champions
Current Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen will once again take to the grid, after his spellbinding qualifying performance last year. 2022 Formula 2 champion Felipe Drugovich will also return, and so will reigning Formula 3 champion Victor Martins.
Verstappen will line up for Team Redline in the Le Mans Virtual Series championship-leading LMP alongside Luke Browning, last year’s winner Jeffrey Rietveld and Diogo Pinto. The new Aston Martin F1 Team development driver Drugovich will compete in the second Redline entry, #2, with IndyCar race winner Felix Rosenqvist, Luke Bennett and Chris Lulham.
Martins, meanwhile, is entered with the Alpine manufacturer team, car #37, and will be paired with F2 driver Olli Caldwell, Rory MacDuff and Patrik Sipos.
Romain Grosjean and Tomas Enge are two former F1 drivers on the grid, the former driving for his eponymous R8G Esports squad, while the latter will be competing for ARC Bratislava with WTCR race-winner Maťo Homola, Andrej Marecak and Erik Vizi.
Sim racing’s leading lights
2022 W Series vice-champion Beitske Visser will make her fourth appearance in the Le Mans Virtual Series, and this time will pair up with 2022 Praga Cup champion Jimmy Broadbent – FIA-graded this time.
Meanwhile, Broadbent’s Praga teammate Gordie Mutch enters for Brabham Esports in the #62.
2022 Autosport Esports Driver of the Year James Baldwin is also PRO-rated thanks to his sterling McLaren GT3 real-world exploits, and teams up with 2022 24 Hours of Spa winner Daniel Juncadella for AMG Team Petronas Esports.
Top professional esports talent
Alongside the F1 drivers, some of the world’s best sim racers are taking part – each team entering two FIA-graded drivers and two professional esports drivers.
Current DTM Esports champion Kevin Siggy is in the #71 BMW Team Redline GTE car, three-time ADAC GT Masters Esports champion and real-world DTM Trophy driver Moritz Löhner lines up for Project 1 by Dörr Esports in the #11 Porsche while former Formula E: Accelerate race winner and World’s Fastest Gamer competitor Erhan Jajovski is in R8G Esport’s GTE Ferrari.
Double Porsche TAG Heuer eSports Supercup champion Joshua Rogers lines up in the #20 Porsche Coanda LMP alongside former real-world rallycross race winner and virtual rallycross world champion Mitchell deJong.
Formula Pro Series champion Bono Huis will join the aforementioned Baldwin and Juncadella at AMG, while the second AMG entry, in partnership with Williams Esports, sees 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual winners Jakub Brzezinski and Nikodem Wisniewski work with Walkenhorst GT-driver Sami-Matti Trogen and current GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and ADAC GT Masters champion Raffaele Marciello.
Manufacturer-backed teams
2023 will see the first time Peugeot Sport will enter the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, under the Peugeot Esports moniker, dovetailing its World Endurance Championship Hypercar programme.
Gustavo Menezes and Malthe Jakobsen are the two FIA-graded drivers, joined by sim racers Valentin Mandernach and Maxime Brient.
Porsche enters two cars in LMP with the Coanda esports team, with Alpine also with a two-pronged attack. Scuderia Ferrari Velas Esports Team is also present, with real-world Ferrari driver and Sim Grid and Coach Dave Academy founder David Perel behind the wheel.
BMW is backing two separate GTE entries, likewise AMG. Team Fordzilla also returns, alongside first-time entrants Brabham.
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2023 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual entry list LMP
| # | TEAM | DRIVER 1 | DRIVER 2 | DRIVER 3 | DRIVER 4 |
| 1 | Team Redline | Max Verstappen (PRO) | Luke Browning (PRO) | Jeffrey Rietveld | Diogo Pinto |
| 2 | Team Redline | Felipe Drugovich (PRO) | Felix Rosenqvist (PRO) | Luke Bennett | Chris Lulham |
| 4 | Floyd Vanwall-Burst | Franco Colapinto (PRO) | Bent Viscaal (PRO) | Jesper N. Pedersen | Jernej Simončič |
| 5 | Williams Esports | Agustin Canapino (PRO) | William Tregurtha (PRO) | Jack Keithley | Petar Brljak |
| 8 | R8G ESPORTS | Mathias Beche (PRO) | Arthur Rougier (PRO) | Jiri Toman | Marcell Csincsik |
| 16 | Pescarolo Esport Monaco | Romain Boeckler (PRO) | Thomas Imbourg (PRO) | Darius Andrei | Robert Paun |
| 18 | R8G ESPORTS | Romain Grosjean (PRO) | Mathis Poulet (PRO) | Martin Hemmingsen | Ulas Ozyildirim |
| 20 | Porsche Coanda | Ayhancan Güven (PRO) | Laurin Heinrich (PRO) | Mitchell deJong | Joshua Rogers |
| 21 | SEM9.Axle | Alister Yoong (PRO) | Arjun Maini (PRO) | Naquib Azlan | Muhammad Aleef |
| 22 | Rocket Simsport | Angus Fender (PRO) | Rodrigo Pflucker (PRO) | Mika Hakimi | Borja Millan |
| 23 | Porsche Coanda | Bastian Buus (PRO) | Morris Schuring (PRO) | Mack Bakkum | Dayne Warren |
| 24 | Le Mans Virtual Cup | Andy Priaulx (PRO) | Sebastian Priaulx (PRO) | Shaun Arnold | Zoltán Várkonyi |
| 28 | YAS HEAT VELOCE | Sandy Mitchell (PRO) | Elias Seppanen (PRO) | Marko Pejic | Isaac Gillissen |
| 29 | Mexico Racing Team | Luis Díaz (PRO) | Ricardo Sánchez (PRO) | Alberto Gironella | Adolfo Pérez |
| 36 | Alpine Esports | Sacha Lehmann (PRO) | Leo Boulay (PRO) | Collin Spork | Tom Lartilleux |
| 37 | Alpine Esports | Victor Martins (PRO) | Oliver Caldwell (PRO) | Rory MacDuff | Patrik Sipos |
| 39 | Graff by ATRS eSports | Vincent Capillaire (PRO) | Georgios Karakoulas (PRO) | Markus Søholm | Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya |
| 44 | ARC Bratislava | Matej Homola (PRO) | Tomas Enge (PRO) | Andrej Marecak | Erik Vizi |
| 53 | AMG Team Williams Esports | Sami-Matti Trogen (PRO) | Agustin Canapino (PRO) | Jakub Brzezinski | Nikodem Wisniewski |
| 62 | Brabham Esports | Gordon Mutch (PRO) | William Dendy (PRO) | Arne Schoonvliet | Jan von der Heyde |
| 63 | AMG Team Petronas Esports | James Baldwin (PRO) | Daniel Juncadella (PRO) | Graham Carroll | Bono Huis |
| 65 | Panis Racing Team | Job van Uitert (PRO) | Pierre-Louis Chovet (PRO) | Thibault Cazaubon | Florian Lebigre |
| 86 | GR eSports | Gus Bowers (PRO) | Mohan Ritson (PRO) | Daniel Brewer | Jannick Bock |
| 93 | Peugeot Esports | Gustavo Menezes (PRO) | Malthe Jakobsen (PRO) | Elliott Vayron | Maxime Brient |
| 100 | Arnage Competition | Yifei Ye (PRO) | Emilien Carde (PRO) | Jimmy Antunes | Adam Pinczes |
| 101 | GR eSports | Andre Castro (PRO) | Alexandru Cascatau (PRO) | Adam Maguire | Liam de Waal |
| 444 | Nextview Vanwall-Burst | Josh Skelton (PRO) | Jonny Edgar (PRO) | Michi Hoyer | Dawid Mroczek |
| 966 | Team Fordzilla | Ramon Piñeiro (PRO) | Georgi Dimitrov (PRO) | Gianmarco Fiduci | Alessandro Ottaviani |
2023 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual entry list GTE
| # | TEAM | CAR | DRIVER 1 | DRIVER 2 | DRIVER 3 | DRIVER 4 |
| 10 | MAHLE Racing Team | BMW M8 GTE | Beitske Visser (PRO) | Jimmy Broadbent (PRO) | Michele D’Alessandro | Muhammed Patel |
| 11 | Project 1 by Dörr Esports | Porsche 911 RSR GTE | Marc Gassner (PRO) | Norbert Kiss (PRO) | Moritz Löhner | Leonard Krippner |
| 25 | Inspeed Racing | Porsche 911 RSR GTE | Wenlong Lu (PRO) | Rafael Lobato (PRO) | Xiayufei Li | Yanzhe Li |
| 26 | SIM Maranello | Ferrari 488 GTE | Kikko Galbiati (PRO) | Lorenzo Patrese (PRO) | Christian Malghera | Andrea Terzi |
| 51 | SF Velas Esports Team | Ferrari 488 GTE | Oliver Bearman (PRO) | David Perel (PRO) | Kasper Stoltze | Christian Michel |
| 64 | Satellite Racing | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | David Pittard (PRO) | Nello Pastorino | Jimi Nisula | Henri Sinik |
| 66 | SIMMSA Esports | Ferrari 488 GTE | Ramez Azzam (PRO) | Gustas Grinbergas (PRO) | Sebastian Wunsch | Patrick Schindler |
| 71 | BMW Team Redline | BMW M8 GTE | Rudy van Buren (PRO) | Lorenzo Colombo (PRO) | Kevin Siggy | Enzo Bonito |
| 77 | Proton Coanda Esports | Porsche 911 RSR GTE | Loek Hartog (PRO) | Jeferson Giassi (PRO) | Charlie Collins | Paschalis Gkergkis |
| 88 | Proton Coanda Esports | Porsche 911 RSR GTE | Raoul Hyman (PRO) | Alexander Tauscher (PRO) | Bryn Collins | Kevin van Dooren |
| 89 | BMW Team BS+COMPETITION | BMW M8 GTE | Bruno Spengler (PRO) | Phillippe Denes (PRO) | Alen Terzic | Ibraheem Khan |
| 95 | Prodrive FYRA Esport | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Lasse Sørensen (PRO) | Andreas Jochimsen (PRO) | Caique Oliveira | Lasse Bak |
| 99 | Oracle Red Bull Racing | Porsche 911 RSR GTE | Dennis Lind (PRO) | Ayumu Iwasa (PRO) | Dennis Jordan | Yuri Kasdorp |
| 111 | P1 Esport | Porsche 911 RSR GTE | Frederik Schandorff (PRO) | Oliver Rasmussen (PRO) | Turkka Häkkinen | Rasmus Busk |
| 777 | D’station Racing | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Charlie Fagg (PRO) | Henrique Chaves (PRO) | Remi Delorme | Marc Veit |
| 888 | R8G ESPORTS | Ferrari 488 GTE | Alexander Smolyar (PRO) | Scott Andrews (PRO) | Timotej Andonovski | Erhan Jajovski |
| 889 | LOR JMX Phantom | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Presley Martono (PRO) | Thanathip Tanalapanan (PRO) | Andika Rama Maulana | Fadhli Rachmat |
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