Le Mans Virtual Series driver entry list announced for 2021-22 season

Justin Melillo
Driver Entry List announced for 2021-22 Le Mans Virtual Series

On Tuesday, over 170 drivers were named for the 38 teams competing in the 2021-22 Le Mans Virtual Series season. The official roster lists 173 drivers with five drivers still to be named for a total of 178.

You might see many familiar names across all forms of motorsports and esports on the final list. Each team includes at least two FIA-graded drivers or of equivalent standard, and the remaining seats will be filled by some of the best sim drivers from multiple disciplines of virtual racing.

Forms of motorsports that are represented in the field include Formula 1, WEC, IndyCar, IMSA, Formula 2 and 3, Formula E and Extreme E and GT World Challenge, among others. Familiar names on the list include 2009 F1 Champion Jenson Button, NTT IndyCar Series drivers Alex Palou and Felix Rosenqvist, Beitske Visser from the W Series and the WEC, and many more drivers from all over the map.

Paint schemes were revealed over the weekend.

Plenty of sim racing talents inhabit the roster, including Michi Hoyer, Bono Huis, Jan von der Heyde, Joshua Rogers and Kevin Siggy. With so many teams and so many drivers, there were a few guidelines that needed to be followed to get their final roster.

From the press release:

  • Teams must submit a full-season roster of 4 or 5 drivers.
  • A minimum of 2 drivers must be FIA graded (or its equivalent).
  • The remaining drivers are sim drivers.
  • For each of the first 4 online rounds, teams will nominate 3 drivers from their full season roster 7 days before each race. Of these, one must be an FIA-graded driver (or its equivalent).
  • For the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual finale – scheduled to be held January 15th and 16th, 2022 in Birmingham, UK at the 2022 Autosport International motorsport show – line-ups will increase to 4 drivers per entry with a minimum of 2 FIA-graded drivers (or its equivalent). An additional 20 entries are expected for the live, televised event, with some of the most well-known motorsport names in the world due to appear.
Teams announced for 2021-2022 Le Mans Virtual Series
The full list of teams that were announced last week.

These guidelines are provisioned in a way to allow for the replacement of FIA-graded drivers if needed due to schedule uncertainty. The entry list for Monza on 25th September should be available within the week of the race.

So many big names. Who are you most excited to see racing in this virtual season? Will you be trying your hand in the Le Mans Virtual Cup to race alongside these giants in the main event? Let us know! If you can’t read the graphic above, no worries as we’ve transcribed it below as well.

2021-22 Le Mans Virtual Team/Driver list

No.ORECA 07 LMP2 TeamPRO DRIVERSSIM DRIVERS
1Rebellion GPX Williams (5)Louis Deletraz
Raffaele Marciello
Nikodem Wisniewski
Kuba Brzezinski
Michael Romanidis
2Rocket Simsport (5)Jenson Button
Alex Buncombe
Jan Von der Heyde
Devin Braune
Matt Richards
4Floyd ByKolles-Burst (5)Tom Dillmann
Sergio Sette Camara
Bent Viscaal
Jesper Pedersen
Jernej Simončič
5Williams Esports (5)Bruno Senna
Julian Santero
Daniel Lafuente
Petar Brljak
Alex Arana
8R8G ESPORTS (5)Mathias Beche
Gordon Mutch
Erhan Jajovski
Risto Kappet
Hany Alsabti
10MAHLE RACING TEAM (5)Beitske Visser
Philippe Denes
Nathan Lewis
Michele D’Alessandro
Mohammed Patel
11Red Bull Racing Esports (5)Timmy Hansen
Liam Lawson
Alex Siebel
Dennis Jordan
Frederik Rasmussen
14Race Clutch Alpine (5)Daniel Morad
Nikodem Wierzbicki
Eneric André
Tom Lartilleux
Nicolas Barclay
15Race Clutch Alpine (5)Romain Boeckler
Victor Martins
Rick Jonk
Borja Milan
Peter Zuba
18R8G ESPORTS (5)Arthur Rougier
Job Van Uitert
Thibault Cazaubon
Samuel Libeert
Thomas Petitjean
21Axle Sports (4)Naquib Azlan
Mika Hakimi
Josh Purwien
Ar Muhammad Aleef
22GPX Rebellion Williams (4)Jack Aitken
Yifei Ye
Jiri Toman
Marcell Csincsik
31Esports Team WRT (4)Ryuichiro Tomita
Franco Colapinto
Arne Schoonvliet
Fabrice Cornelis
38JOTA (5)Harry Tincknell
Stoffel Vandoorne
Mike Epps
Ibraheem Khan
Daniel Kiss
44ARC Bratislava (5)Dávid Nemček
Mato Homola
Dennis Zeták
Jakub Štofko
Andrej Marečák
49YAS HEAT (5)Ryan Tveter
Will Tregurtha
Josh Lad
Balázs Remenyik
Isaac Gillissen
65Panis Racing (5)Will Stevens
Nico Varrone
Alessandro Ottaviani
Valentin Mandernach
Tobias Pfeffer
70Realteam Hydrogen Redline (4)Dani Juncadella
Shane van Gisbergen
Atze Kerkhof
Michal Smidl
123Team Redline (4)Felix Rosenqvist
Caio Collect
Jeffrey Rietveld
Bono Huis
444Alpha Ind. ByKolles-Burst (5)Esteban Guerrieri
Bent Viscaal
Andre Couto
Michi Hoyer
Dawid Mroczek
966Team Fordzilla (5)Alex Palou Montalbo
Luke Browning
Pablo López Padín
Gianmarco Fiduci
Nuno Pinto
—-——————————–————–
No.LMGTE TEAMPRO DRIVERSSIM DRIVERS
51FDA Esports Team – Ferrari (4)Nicklas Nielsen
David Perel
Jordi Zwiers
Kasper Stoltze
55BMW Team GB – BMW (4)Agustin Canapino
Sami-Matti Trogen
Martin Stefanko
Jack Keithley
56Team Project 1 x BPM – Porsche (5)Louis Henkefend
Riccardo Pera
Tim Neuendorf
Pero Stoyanov Peev
Bram Beelen
57Team Project 1 x BPM – Porsche (5)David Kolkmann
Nicolas Hillebrand
Michael Woller
Zbigniew Siara
René Buttler
61Axle Sports – Porsche (4)Mikko Nassi
Inigo Anton
Alister Yoong
Nabil Azlan
66SIMMSA Esports – Ferrari (5)Gustas Grinbergas
Ramez Azzam
Andreas Schmich
Armin Binder
Sebastian Wunsch
71BMW Team Redline – BMW (4)Rudy van Buren
Lorenzo Colombo
Enzo Bonito
Kevin Siggy
77Proton Competition – Porsche (4)Jaxon Evans
Loek Hartog
Kevin van Dooren
Jeremy Bouteloup
86GR Wolves Racing – Porsche (5)Nick Foster
Pro Driver TBC
Adam Maguire
Philipp Puschke
Sim Driver TBC
87GR Wolves Racing – Porsche (5)Ben Barker
Pro Driver TBC
Liam de Waal
Sim Driver TBC
Sim Driver TBC
88Proton Competition – Porsche (5)Dylan Pereira
Sindre Furuseth
Andreas Bakkerud
Charlie Collins
Dayne Warren
89BMW Team BS+Competition – BMW (5)Bruno Spengler
Laurin Heinrich
Alen Terzic
Joonas Raivio
Ryan Barneveld
91Porsche Esports Team – Porsche (4)Matt Campbell
Thomas Preining
Mitchell deJong
Mack Bakkum
92Porsche Esports Team – Porsche (4)Ayhancan Güven
Sage Karam
Joshua Rogers
Tommy Østgaard
111Red Bull Racing Esports – Corvette (5)Dennis Lind
Ryo Hirakawa
Yuri Kasdorp
Nestor Garcia
Sebastian Job
777D’Station Racing – Aston Martin (5)Andrew Watson
Tomonobu Fujii
Joāo Paulo de Oliveira
Yusuke Tomibayashi
Toshiya Nojima
888TESLA R8G Esports – BMW (5)Simon Pilate
Pierre Louis Chovet
Quentin Vialatte
Florian Lebigre
Timotej Andonovski

LE MANS VIRTUAL SERIES 2021/22 CALENDAR

  • Round 1 – 4 Hours of Monza, Italy – 25th September 2021
  • Round 2 – 6 Hours of Spa, Belgium – 16th October 2021
  • Round 3 – 8 Hours of Nürburgring Nordschleife, Germany – 13th November 2021
  • Round 4 – 6 Hours of Sebring, USA – 18th December 2021
  • Round 5 – 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual – 15th/16th January 2022  

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