Esports: Max Verstappen and Lando Norris team up for virtual Le Mans

Formula One rivals Max Verstappen and Lando Norris shall be workforce mates for the digital 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 13/14, in line with the official entry listing on Saturday.

The Red Bull and McLaren drivers are sharing the Team Redline Oreca 07 LMP2 automotive for the esports race on the weekend that Le Mans, postponed to Sept. 19/20 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, would usually happen.

Spain’s double Formula One champion and two occasions Le Mans winner Fernando Alonso will be a part of Brazilian former Ferrari driver Rubens Barrichello in their very own entry.

Ferrari’s present F1 driver Charles Leclerc is teaming up with Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi in a Ferrari 488 GTE whereas Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly companions Formula E champion Jean-Eric Vergne in a Veloce Esports workforce.

1 / 4 of the F1 grid — 5 drivers — shall be within the 50-car subject, with 10 entries in reserve.

Two Indianapolis 500 winners have entered: Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya, and France’s reigning champion Simon Pagenaud collectively for Team Penske.

Britain’s Jamie Chadwick, inaugural champion of the all-female W Series, will race a Mahle Racing Aston Martin Vantage GTE.

There can also be an all-female Richard Mille Racing workforce with Katherine Legge, Tatiana Calderon, Sophia Floersch and Emily Jones.

Regular Le Mans producers Toyota, Ferrari, Porsche, Corvette and Aston Martin are represented in what organisers are billing because the world’s greatest digital endurance race.

Each four-person workforce options a mixture of skilled racers and players.

They must deal with circumstances just like the French endurance traditional, with variable day and night time climate circumstances and broken vehicles repairable within the pits.

No driver will be capable of do greater than seven hours on the wheel and every must do a minimal 4 hours.