Porsche Esports Team dominate GTE qualifying at Le Mans Virtual
Two 20 minute sessions - one for the 30 cars in the LMP class, the other for the 20 cars in the GTE class - have created the grid ahead of tomorrow’s 24 hour race which gets underway at 15h00 CEST.
In GTE, it was a Porsche Esports Team 1-2 as experienced Australian sim racer Joshua Rogers clocked the fastest time for the No. 93 car with a lap time of 3:46.550.
Rogers shares the pole-sitting Porsche 911 RSR with team-mates Britain’s Nick Tandy, Turkey’s Ayhancan Guven and fellow sim racer Tommy Østgaard who hails from Norway.
Second quickest in GTE qualifying was the sister No. 91 car as America’s Mitchell DeJong claimed a time of 3:47.182. The No. 88 Dempsey-Proton Racing entry was third fastest thanks to Dutch sim racer Kevin van Dooren who posted a time of 3:47.819 in the session’s closing seconds.
Elsewhere, the No. 52 car with Charles Leclerc, Antonio Giovinazzi, Enzo Bonito and David Tonizza finished ninth overall in the Ferrari 488 GTE entry.
For the full results from qualifying click HERE.
Tomorrow’s race will start at 15h00 CEST, with the full 24 hours race available to watch for free via the FIA WEC YouTube channel HERE. Numerous broadcasters are also showing the race on linear television across the world, for more information on how you can watch from home click HERE.
