ESL R1 2023 Spring Season Driver Line-Ups

Last updated on February 8th, 2023 at 01:48 pm

After the details, participating teams and calendar were announced for the inaugural ESL R1 competition earlier this week, organisations have been sharing their ESL R1 2023 Spring Season driver line-ups. And it should make for some tough racing, with organisations fielding high skilled and experienced sim racers.

A total of 12 teams are taking part, with each fielding 4 drivers. Those 48 racers will compete over eight rounds, with the top 24 proceeding to the live finale events each season. We’ll keep updating the car and driver details as more information is announced, but the line-ups currently include:

Porsche Coanda Esports

Porsche 911 GT3 R

• Mack Bakkum
• Joshua Rogers
• Dayne Warren
• Mitchell deJong

Mouz Esports

Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II

• Moritz Lohner
• Yuri Kasdorp
• Patrik Holzmann
• Maximilian Benecke

Apex Racing Team

Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II

• Peter Berryman
• Jamie Fluke
• Yohann Harth
• Kevin Ellis Jr

BMW M Team BS+ Competition

BMW M4 GT3

• Nils Naujoks
• Ryan Barneveld
• Phillip Denes
• Rainer Talvar
• Team Captain: Bruno Spengler
• Support Driver: Ibraheem Khan

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Esports

Mercedes-AMG GT3

• James Baldwin
• Marko Pejic
• Bono Huis
• Graham Carroll

Team Redline

BMW M4 GT3

• Enzo Bonito
• Kevin Siggy
• Luke Bennett
• Jeffrey Rietveld

R8G Esports

Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II

• Erhan Jajovski
• Jiri Toman
• Risto Kappet
• Marcell Csincsik

Williams Esports

Mercedes-AMG GT3

• Jakub Brzezinski
• Nikodem Wisniewski
• Daire McCormack
• Dennis Schoniger

Heroic

Porsche 911 GT3 R

• Tommy Ostgaard
• Mikkel Gadeec
• Tuomas Tahtela
• Oskar Biklund

G2 Esports

• TBC
• TBC
• TBC
• TBC

Furia

BMW M4 GT3

• Caique Oliveira
• Felipe Baptista
• Jeff Giassi
• Victor Veloso

Faze

Porsche 911 GT3 R

• Lucas Müller
• Tim Jarschel
• Ulas Ozyildirim
• TBC

The biggest interest is which professional sim racers will be switching from established teams to new squads set up by organisations which have histories in eSports, but not virtual motorsport. The first of these has been Mouz, who have already secured four well-known and successful drivers. Which currently leaves the likes of Furia, G2 and Faze.

You’ll be able to keep up with our ESL R1 series coverage, here. Along with all the latest Racing eSports news, here.

And you can see the latest Rennsport news, updates, content and more, here, along with a list of all the cars confirmed for Rennsport so far (and the tracks as well).