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Realteam Hydrogen Redline wins the Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans
Photo: @TeamRedlineSim
The second edition of 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual saw the victory of the Realteam Hydrogen Redline team. Starting from pole position, the No. 2 Oreca LM P70 took advantage of the misfortunes of the second Team Redline car, that of Max Verstappen, Felix Rosenqvist, Maximilian Benecke and Atze Kerkhof, but also Mercedes-AMG Petronas Esports (Dani Juncadella, Ross Gunn, Bono Huis, Jarno Opmeer), both forced to retire before nightfall. The first was unable to restart after the World Champion of Formula 1 at the exit of the Ford chicane as night began to fall on the virtual replica of the Circuit de la Sarthe. For the German team, it was an engine problem which was the cause of the retirement. The Swiss prototype was able to manage its race after dark to win after 407 laps completed with Felipe Drugovivh, Oliver Rowland, Maximilian Benecke and Atze Kerkhof, with more than a minute ahead of the Rebellion GPX. Esports (Louis Delétraz, Agustin Canapino, Kuba Brzezinski, Nikodem Wisniewski) and two on the Floyd ByKolles-Burst nº4 (Tom Dillman, Bent Viscaal, Jesper Pedersen, Jernej Simoncic). Realteam Hydrogen Redline also won the championship, 0,5 points ahead of Rebellion.
In the GT category, it was the BMW M8 GTE of Team Redline nº71 (Rudy van Buren, Lorenzo Colombo, Enzo Bonito, Kevin Siggy) which won its third victory of the season after an intense battle against the Porsche 911 RSR GTE nº91 from Porsche Esports Team (Mitchell de Jong, Laurin Heinrich, Mack Bakkum, Martin Krönke) and a second Porsche, the nº77 from Proton Competition (Loek Hartog, Matt Campbell, Kevin van Dooren, Jeremy Bouteloup). There Ferrari 488 GTE nº51 from FDA Esports Team (Nicklas Nielsen, David Perel, Jordy Zwiers, Kasper Stoltze) held out in the lead for a long time to finally finish just off the podium. Although Team Redline lost the prototype title following Max Verstappen's accident, the team won the GT category.
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Valentin GLO
Journalist. Endurance reporter (WEC, IMSA, ELMS, ALMS) and sometimes F1 or IndyCar.
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DANIEL MEYERS
16/01/2022 at 07:14 a.m.
I liked it, just like last year! It's in fact much more intense than in real life, and then what a joy to attend a race "like before" of really 24 hours, without slow zone limited to a sick snail's speed, without safety cars which make losing the race to teams who, unfortunately, are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Looking forward to the same next year with why not the LMH teams with their cars?!