The Race All-Star Series – Fully Charged by ROKiT Phones has become a championship. The Esports event was set up last month by The Race’s parent company Torque Esports to fill the void left by motorsports being called off due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Torque Esports CEO Darren Cox said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for our sport to establish the esports genre as a legitimate form of entertainment for fans around the world.
“It’s also a potentially lucrative first step for new competitors to get involved in the sport without ever having to leave their homes.”
The All-Star Cup consists of three heat races, two for real-world drivers and one for sim racers, with the top five from these races progressing straight to the final.
The real-world racers who don’t make the cut go into the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ), where again the top five progress to complete the final 20-driver grid.
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Points will be scored on a 35-30-26-24-22-20-19-18-17-etc basis for the 20 racers in each All-Star Cup final as competitors bid to be crowned the inaugural champion.
The Legends Trophy is the sister event to The Race All-Star Cup – Fully Charged by ROKiT Phones.
What time does the Esports event start?
The action gets underway at 5pm BST with the Legends Trophy being followed by the All-Star Cup.
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How to watch today’s Esports
Fans around the world can live stream the action via The Race’s YouTube channel.
Additionally, there will be live TV coverage on ESPN 2 in the United States.
Viewers in Europe will also be able to watch the race on the Eurosport website.
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Legends Trophy driver line-up
Adrián Fernández
Dario Franchitti
David Brabham
Emanuele Pirro
Emerson Fittipaldi
Hélio Castroneves
Jan Magnussen
Juan Pablo Montoya
Max Papis
Tony Kanaan
Tiago Monteiro
Andy Priaulx
Darren Turner
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Jenson Button
Mika Salo
Oriol Servia
Michel Jourdain Jr
Jacques Villeneuve
Bryan Herta
Gil de Ferran
Petter Solberg
Jason Plato
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All-Star Cup driver line-up
PRO DRIVERS:
Archie Hamilton
Harry Tincknell
Jack Aitken
Jonny Adam
Martin Plowman
Lachlan DeFrancesco
James Hedley
Mike Epps
Gabby Chaves
Matt Griffin
Tristan Vautier
Bradley Smith
Charlie Eastwood
Yifei Ye
Sean Gelael
James Pull
Miguel Molina
Daniel Juncadella
Esteban Gutiérrez
Jack Doohan
Dennis Lind
Michael Benyahia
Maxime Martin
Devlin DeFrancesco
Richard Verschoor
James Calado
Ed Jones
Andreas Laskaratos
Tom Dillmann
Juan Manuel Correa
Maximilian Guenther
Sebastian Priaulx
Kevin Hansen
Harrison Newey
Tom Ingram
Stoffel Vandoorne
Sebastian Montoya
Ayla Agren
SIM RACERS:
Bono Huis
Jernej Simončič
Kevin Siggy
Rudy van Buren
Alen Terzic
Erhan Jajovski
Matthew Williams
Nikodem Wisniewski
Nuno Pinto
Petar Brljak
Risto Kappet
Yuri Kasdorp
Manuel Biancolilla
Gergo Baldi
David Greco
Michael Romanidis
Dawid Mroczek
Kuba Brzezinski
Jiri Toman
Jordy Zwiers
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