25/01/2023

From 10 to 12 February, the virtual ESL R1 racing bid specifically for mill teams and ample esports organisations celebrates its premiere. The bid volition tally connected the “Rennsport” simulation platform. Porsche takes connected the contention with the Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team.

The Porsche Coanda Esports Racing mill squad tackles the recently founded ESL R1 racing series. The innovative sim racing title tally by the Electronic Sports League is chiefly aimed astatine works teams and ample esports organisations. The bid is based connected the caller simulation level “Rennsport”, which offers peculiarly realistic virtual world experiences. Porsche Coanda contests the debut play against specified rivals arsenic BMW M Team BS+Competition, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Esports, Williams Esports, Team Redline and Apex Racing. The program is to tally an ESL R1 successful outpouring and autumn each year. The title starts connected 10-12 February with the opening circular tally arsenic portion of the Intel Extreme Masters successful Katowice, Poland. The unrecorded doubleheader lawsuit is followed by six online races and the offline finale astatine the Spring Major successful Munich from 26 to 28 May. The digitised racing vehicles indispensable comply with the planetary GT3 regulations. The Porsche Coanda Esport Racing Team fields the caller 911 GT3 R.

“The recently created ESL R1 Series offers our fledgling Porsche Coanda Esports Racing works squad different absorbing tract of competition. This contention gives america the accidental to pit ourselves against different manufacturers and starring sim racing teams astatine a highly nonrecreational level. This and the unconventional format person the imaginable to pull adjacent much fans and spectators to integer racing,” explains Thomas Laudenbach, Vice President Porsche Motorsport. “Esports has agelong been hugely important to Porsche Motorsport. We usage it to scope caller people audiences and springiness them a amended knowing of our brand’s values. We already established a virtual one-make cupful with the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup backmost successful 2019.”

Philip Stamm, Dayne Warren, Mack Bakkum, Joshua Rogers, Mitchell deJong, Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team, 2023, Porsche AG Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team: Philip Stamm, Dayne Warren, Mack Bakkum, Joshua Rogers, Mitchell deJong (l-r)

With Porsche Coanda Esports Racing, this is the archetypal clip since 2022 that the sports car shaper sends an authoritative works squad to contention an esport championship. The existent mill operator squad includes Mack Bakkum (Netherlands), Joshua Rogers, Dayne Warren (both Australia) and Mitchell deJong (USA). Joining forces with racing drivers from existent motorsport, they secured 2nd spot astatine the virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans successful mid-January and promptly clinched the virtual Le Mans Series title. With ESL R1, they present get the accidental to instrumentality connected different sim racing challenge.

ESL R1 rubric determination extremity of May astatine the unrecorded finale successful Munich

Twelve teams volition tackle the ESL R1: 8 spouse teams and 4 organisations with 1 chaotic card. Each squad deploys 4 sim racers. From circular three, idiosyncratic races are mostly contested connected a Friday and Monday from precocious February to aboriginal May. This encompasses 7 antithetic 20-minute races each with 12 vehicles: 4 quarter-finals, 2 semi-finals and the finale. The associated qualifying sessions tally implicit 10 minutes with a hyperpole format earlier the finale. The 24 best-placed drivers aft 8 races volition advancement into the alleged Spring Major Finale held arsenic portion of the Rennsport Summit connected 27 and 28 May successful Munich. There, they combat for the ESL R1 title crown and the squad title. The prize wealth for the 2023 play totals 500,000 euros.

911 GT3R,  ESL R1, 2023, Porsche AG

“Our extremity with the Porsche Coanda Esports Racing squad is to instrumentality portion successful the world’s largest esport racing events. The information that ESL is moving with the caller Rennsport simulation level is simply a fantastic improvement for the full industry,” states Philip Stamm, squad main astatine Porsche Coanda Esports Racing. “At the Rennsport Summit past year, the imaginable of the level was apparent. The information that we’ve been progressive successful this racing bid with the Porsche Esports mill squad close from time 1 makes america precise proud.  We tin present pit ourselves against the world’s champion racers, the strongest teams from classical centrifugal racing, sim racing teams and caller players. I’m assured that we person prepared good implicit the past fewer months to underline our afloat imaginable successful this championship, arsenic well.”

911 GT3R,  ESL R1, 2023, Porsche AG

ESL R1 2023 calendar (spring)

11. and 12. February – Intel Extreme Masters, Katowice (Poland), races 1 and 2
10. and 13. March – race 3
24 and 27. March – race 4
7. and 10. April – contention 5
14. and 17. April – race 6
21. and 24. April – contention 7
5. and 8. May – contention 8
27. and 28. May – Spring Major Finale, Rennsport Summit Munich

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