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