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Realteam Hydrogen Redline wins the Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans

Valentin GLO

  • Published on 16 / 01 / 2022 at 14: 25
  • Modified on 17/01/2022 at 12:38
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Realteam Hydrogen Redline wins the Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans Photo: @TeamRedlineSim

The second edition of the Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans saw the victory of the Realteam Hydrogen Redline team, also victorious in the championship. BMW won in GT.

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 Benz-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 Classic Ferrari for sale 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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    DANIEL MEYERS
    • 16/01/22

    I loved it, just like last year! It's actually much more intense than in real life, and what a joy to witness a race "like in the old days," a true 24-hour race, without slow zones limited to a snail's pace, without safety cars costing teams the race because they're in the wrong place at the wrong time. I can't wait for the same thing next year, maybe even with the LMH teams and their cars?!

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