LONDON: Following fast in the wheeltracks of the ground-breaking All-Star Esports Battle, Torque Esports Corp is launching the motorsport Legends Trophy.
The Legends Trophy will pit drivers aged 40 and over against one another in identical cars as a prelude to this Saturday’s third round of the All-Star Esports Battle.
The Race All-Star Esports Battle Legends Trophy features two-time F1 Champion Emerson Fittipaldi; three-time Indy 500 winners Helio Castroneves & Dario Franchitti; F1, IndyCar, NASCAR & IMSA race winner Juan Pablo Montoya; F1 winner Johnny Herbert; Le Mans winner David Brabham; Le Mans class winner and IMSA champion, Jan Magnussen; IndyCar champion Paul Tracy; Indy 500 winners & series champions Gil de Ferran & Tony Kanaan and IndyCar race winners Bryan Herta, Adrian Fernandez, Oriol Servia and Max Papis.
IndyCar champions, Le Mans 24 Hours winners and grand prix racers fill the list, with Fittipaldi, Castroneves and Franchitti among the first to join the event.
Other confirmed drivers include F1, IndyCar, NASCAR and IMSA race winner Juan Pablo Montoya; F1 race winner Johnny Herbert; Le Mans winner David Brabham; multiple Le Mans class winner and IMSA champion, Jan Magnussen; IndyCar champion Paul Tracy; Indy 500 winners and series champions Gil de Ferran and Tony Kanaan; IndyCar race winners Bryan Herta, Adrian Fernandez and Oriol Servia plus ex-F1, IndyCar and sportscar ace, Max Papis.
The current line-up has an incredible 455 F1 starts, 24 F1 wins, 2,378 IndyCar starts, 177 IndyCar wins plus eight overall or class victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans between them.
The first All-Star Esport Battle was arranged in less than 72 hours following the cancellation of the Australian GP. It attracted a live audience of over 500,000 viewers.
It placed some of the world’s top racing drivers against the best of the sim racing world. There was a $10k prize pool and the sim racers all received an appearance fee in order to boost their community during a hugely transitional time for the sport.
The second encounter drew an even larger number of real-world star racers. World’s Fastest Gamer winner Rudy van Buren triumphed, but DTM ace Daniel Juncadella and Indycar sensation Felix Rosenqvist upheld the honour of the ‘worldies’.
The next installment takes place at 4:00 pm (GMT) on Saturday. The two-hour, 40-minute broadcast will include both the Legends Trophy and the All-Star Battle – streamed live on The Race’s YouTube channel.
Confirmed drivers for this week’s All-Star Battle include ex-F1 racers Juan Pablo Montoya, Marcus Ericsson and Esteban Gutiérrez; Formula E stars António Félix da Costa, Nyck de Vries, Stoffel Vandoorne and Maximilian Günther; IndyCar racers Felix Rosenqvist, Alexander Rossi, James Davison and Colton Herta; DTM stars Philipp Eng, Daniel Juncadella and Bruno Spengler plus sportscar drivers Tom Dillmann, Charlie Eastwood, Maxime Martin, Jonny Adam and Nicki Thiim.
World’s Fastest Gamer winners James Baldwin and last week’s The Race All-Star Esports Battle winner Rudy van Buren lead another batch of talented online esports racers taking on regular on-track racing rivals.
