VRS Coanda Simsport Wins Biggest iRacing Daytona 24 Ever

January 20th, 2020 by

VRS Coanda Simsport

The VRS Coanda Simsport quartet of Tommy Ostgaard, Josh Rogers, Martin Kronke, and Mitchell deJong proved victorious in the top split of this year’s iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona. The #8 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Daytona Prototype completed 834 laps of the iconic Daytona International Speedway road course, defeating Gresham Wagner, Braden Eves, and Andre Castro of SuperSport Racing by three laps in the virtual version of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship opener.

The Apex Racing Team entry of Peter Berryman, Kevin Ellis Jr., Michele Costantini, and Yohann Harth completed the overall podium in the top split. In GTE, the Team Redline entry of Max Benecke, Max Wenig, Jonas Wallmeier, and Gianni Vecchio scored a one-lap victory over Sebastian Job, Graham Carroll, and Patrik Holzmann of Red Bull Racing Esports. Top GT3 honors went to RS Competition’s two-man team of Lasse Bak and Martin Christensen.

The 2020 iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona was the largest in iRacing history. It saw 6,290 combined drivers complete over a million laps across 31 splits in the two event start times. As always, professional racers were a big part of the event, with former real-world Daytona 24 winner AJ Allmendinger among the headliners in the first segment, and Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin and NASCAR Cup Series veteran Parker Kligerman in the broadcasted split in the second segment. Allmendinger’s team finished second in GTE in its split, while McLaughlin and Kligerman finished fifth and 11th in GTE, respectively, in the broadcast split.

Racing for Charity

Many iRacers used the event as a way of raising money for charitable causes. Teammates Ian Plasch and Keenan Kusan raised over $4,300 USD for children’s hospitals through Extra-Life with solo runs, with Plasch’s 824 solo laps setting a new event record. Rence Brown also ran 787 solo laps in GT3 while raising money for Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors, while David Schildhouse raised more than $2,100 AUD for World Wildlife Fund Australia.

Among the thousands of teams entered in this year’s event was the return of an iRacing staff team. Team Staff Infection 2.0 featured driving appearances from Kevin Bobbitt, Greg West, Alex Horn, Nick Leep, Alex Saunders, and Nate DeSelms, and finished 37th after an overnight incident.

Our broadcast partner, Racespot, broadcast the entire race and the replay can be found here.

Top split results from the 2020 iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona are as follows:

Fin.

St.

#

Team

Car

Class

Laps

Split

Led

Best
1 1 8 VRS Coanda Simsport $8 Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 872 0 864 1:35.580
2 6 20 SuperSport Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 869 -3 L 1 1:36.599
3 7 91 Apex Racing Team Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 868 -4 L 0 1:36.704
4 9 93 Drivex eSports Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 868 -4 L 0 1:36.642
5 10 48 Torque Freak Racing Sunset Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 868 -4 L 0 1:36.804
6 4 6 Team Redline DP II Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 868 -4 L 3 1:36.405
7 13 117 Team RSO #117 Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 866 -6 L 0 1:36.949
8 15 14 SimuCUBE ineX Racing DP Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 866 -6 L 0 1:36.851
9 2 18 VRS Coanda Simsport $18 Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 865 -7 L 0 1:35.979
10 14 7 DRS Wave Italy DP Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 862 -10 L 0 1:36.905
11 3 88 VRS Coanda Simsport $88 Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 859 -13 L 0 1:36.737
12 11 58 Radicals Online JRT Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 858 -14 L 0 1:36.930
13 18 78 CTC Racing Red Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 853 -19 L 0 1:37.778
14 17 79 CTC Racing Black Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 842 -30 L 0 1:37.566
15 20 71 Team Redline GT BMW M8 GTE GTE 838 -34 L 0 1:40.333
16 21 2 Red Bull Racing Esports BMW M8 GTE GTE 837 -35 L 0 1:40.296
17 36 76 SimRC.de Titan BMW M8 GTE GTE 836 -36 L 0 1:40.510
18 33 1 Williams Jim Esports Solari #88 BMW M8 GTE GTE 835 -37 L 0 1:40.360
19 25 26 Evolution Racing Team #26 BMW M8 GTE GTE 835 -37 L 0 1:40.690
20 22 75 MSI eSports GTE BMW M8 GTE GTE 835 -37 L 0 1:40.333
21 28 211 Triple A Esports Black BMW M8 GTE GTE 835 -37 L 0 1:40.423
22 32 451 Biela Racing Team EURONICS GTE BMW M8 GTE GTE 832 -40 L 0 1:40.580
23 24 12 Williams Esports Razer BMW M8 GTE GTE 832 -40 L 0 1:40.426
24 31 4 Jean Alesi Esports Academy GTE BMW M8 GTE GTE 830 -42 L 0 1:40.810
25 34 44 Burton Kligerman Esports Porsche 911 RSR GTE 830 -42 L 0 1:40.683
26 30 777 Tertre Rouge Racing Ferrari 488 GTE GTE 829 -43 L 0 1:40.511
27 29 35 Team Heusinkveld #35 BMW M8 GTE GTE 828 -44 L 0 1:40.775
28 23 43 Logitech G Altus Esports BMW M8 GTE GTE 828 -44 L 0 1:40.050
29 41 55 RS Competition Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 820 -52 L 0 1:41.930
30 37 73 Pure Racing Team GT3 Audi R8 LMS GT3 818 -54 L 0 1:42.134
31 47 17 SIMMSA Esports GT3 Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 818 -54 L 0 1:42.418
32 50 24 CoRe SimRacing #24 Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 817 -55 L 0 1:42.242
33 52 321 S2V Esports Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 817 -55 L 0 1:42.407
34 45 37 Evolution Simsport – Raptor Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 817 -55 L 0 1:42.443
35 42 334 Mivano Simracing Yellow Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 816 -56 L 0 1:42.352
36 40 10 DRS Wave Italy AMG Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 815 -57 L 0 1:42.276
37 48 9 MB Esport Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 814 -58 L 0 1:42.249
38 54 21 RevMatch Esports UGX GT3 Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 814 -58 L 0 1:42.173
39 51 15 Viva el PaPo Racing Team Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 814 -58 L 0 1:42.356
40 53 19 Radicals Online Simmortal Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 811 -61 L 0 1:42.640
41 49 333 Mivano Simracing Red Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 673 -199 L 0 1:42.600
42 19 3 Williams Esports Chillblast BMW M8 GTE GTE 623 -249 L 0 1:40.269
43 27 16 Prologue React E-Sport Pink BMW M8 GTE GTE 536 -336 L 0 1:40.578
44 5 33 Team Redline DP I Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 467 -405 L 3 1:36.822
45 43 13 Prologue React E-Sport Blue Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 399 -473 L 0 1:42.366
46 8 23 SIMMSA Esports DP Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 333 -539 L 1 1:37.038
47 16 11 UI1-POSITIVE SIMRACING DP Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 330 -542 L 0 1:37.299
48 44 23 CoRe SimRacing #23 Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 318 -554 L 0 1:42.665
49 35 1 DV1 TRITON Racing BMW M8 GTE GTE 286 -586 L 0 1:41.246
50 46 96 Burst Esport GT3 Audi R8 LMS GT3 147 -725 L 0 1:42.665
51 26 212 Triple A Esports White BMW M8 GTE GTE 97 -775 L 0 1:41.043
52 12 450 Biela Racing Team EURONICS DP Chevrolet Corvette C7 DP 54 -818 L 0 1:37.180
53 55 83 ASTRO Gaming Altus Esports Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 0 -872 L 0 —
54 39 5 Team Redline GT3 Audi R8 LMS GT3 0 -872 L 0 —
55 38 52 Vendaval Simracing Pink Mercedes AMG GT3 GT3 0 -872 L 0 —

 

The 2020 iRacing special event schedule continues on February 7-9 with the iRacing Bathurst 12 Hour from Mount Panorama Circuit, with GT3 cars duking it out. Multi-class action between the DP, GTE, and GT3 classes will return on March 13-15 with the iRacing 12 Hours of Sebring.

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