Following the announcement of the new official 24 Hours of Le Mans and World Endurance Championship game, Le Mans Ultimate, the Le Mans Virtual Series esports competition will have a new platform.
A joint venture between the Automobile Club de l’Ouest and Motorsport Games, the first 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual happened in 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was then expanded in 2021, with the first Le Mans Virtual series which incorporated the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, and then repeated in 2022/23.

However, the most-recent 24-hour esports event was beset by technical challenges on the decade-old rFactor 2 platform. The championship, and day-long race, will now return at an unknown date using the upcoming Le Mans Ultimate game, developed by Studio 397, instead.
“We will be bringing the Le Mans Virtual Series, the biggest racing esports series to the Le Mans Ultimate platform in the near future,” reads the game’s website.
Interestingly, it seems like the new platforms’ online multiplayer, entitled RaceControl, will be used, in some form, to allow access to the events.



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