Esports

Team-based esports series V10 R-League will grow by two teams for its second season, which gets underway in April.

As revealed earlier in the year, this season’s GT World Challenge Europe will break some new ground. For the first time in any motorsports series anywhere in the world, teams can earn points towards the real championship in virtual racing. Fanatec and the Stephane Ratel Organisation (SRO), which governs the series, have now revealed exactly how this will function when the series gets underway next month.

If you fancy picking up a very special piece of Gran Turismo memorabilia, there’s an interesting opportunity this week for fans based in Spain.

The new season of the British GT Esports Championship will get underway this month, but there’s something of a change to procedings. For the first time, the series is now entirely under the SRO Motorsports Group’s purview, and shifts platforms onto Assetto Corsa Competizione.

The Mercedes AMG F1 Esports team has signed reigning world champion Jarno Opmeer to its squad for the 2021 season, replacing Ferrari-bound 2018 and 2019 champion Brendon Leigh.

This year’s GT World Challenge will see one of the strangest real-world/esports crossovers to date, as pro racing drivers could win points towards their championship challenge from sim racing.

The FIA Rally Star competition announced last year will get underway in the coming weeks, with the hopes of finding a future World Rally champion via digital motorsport.

Ferrari has announced that it has signed one of the biggest names in the F1 Esports scene: two-time world champion Brendon Leigh.

The USA’s Mitchell DeJong has taken the lead in the Porsche Tag Heuer Esports Supercup Championship (PESC) following the second round at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

One of the stars of the 2020 esports racing scene, the F1 Virtual Grand Prix, is returning for a second season in 2021.

Formula E has launched a new esports competition which will see qualifying drivers race against sim racers, pros, and celebrities, with some rather unusual prizes.

McLaren has launched a new esports racing series that will see celebrity racers take each other on in live virtual competition.

The esports season is getting underway early in 2021, as the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup returns this coming weekend.

After almost two months of racing, the 2020 F1 Esports championship comes down to the final round. The last three races, taking place on December 16 and 17, will determine the destination of both driver and constructor titles, and they’re looking pretty close.

The 2020 season of the Logitech G Challenge is coming to a close over the next couple of weeks, starting with the Europe/Middle East/Africa region grand final today.

Following a launch last year, the Japan Esports GT (JeGT) competition is returning for 2020, and in quite some style.

While it might seem like we’ve heard a lot about esports in the F1 games over this summer’s hastily re-arranged motorsport schedule, the official F1 Esports series is about to get underway.

Over the next four days we’ll find out which teams will be crowned as the 2020 Le Mans Esports Series (LMES) champions, and take the largest shares of a $150,000 prize pot.

The MSI Esports team has emerged victorious from the third edition of the 24h SimRacing, defending its title from last year.

The 2020 edition of the 24h SimRacing Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya gets underway this Saturday, September 5, and you can watch it right here on GTPlanet.