Rennsport, and the newly-formed ESL R1 series that will be on the Rennsport platform, have both been taking the professional sim racing world by storm lately.
Today alone (23rd January) had a slew of announcements which included competing teams, and one of those teams have gone as far as announcing their entire lineup for the upcoming inaugural season. That would be Porsche’s factory Esports team, the Porsche Coanda Esports Team, and to nobody’s surprise, they’ll have an awfully familiar lineup as the ESL R1 season gears up to start in February.
Porsche’s four official esports works drivers will be in the lineup. That includes Mitchell deJong in the #48, Mack Bakkum in the #16, their newest member Dayne Warren in the #57, and perhaps one of the most decorated sim racers across multiple platforms of racing, Joshua Rogers will be in the iconic #92.
Backing up the team will be two reserves from the Coanda Esports pipeline, both Charlie Collins and Zac Campbell will be on standby throughout the inaugural season.
Both reserve drivers are also qualified to race in the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup over on iRacing this season, as is Warren, but it is still unknown which drivers will be (and won’t be) in the iRacing series that starts 4th February as a driver’s list has not been made public.
Last year we saw deJong, Bakkum and the two-time PESC champion Rogers all back out of the iRacing World Championship series due to “all the developments in the simracing world at the moment” which we can probably now assume has led us to both the Rennsport and the ESL R1 Series announcements in the last year.
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