IMSA Esports Global Championship Returns for 2025 this Sunday; Schedule, Roster Revealed
By Justin Melillo
The IMSA Esports Global Championship returns on Sunday, November 2, for the start of another four-event championship season with a $25,000 prize purse on the line. In the fourth iteration of this high-level virtual championship, this 2025 season will include 52 teams, each car with two drivers sharing the seat, that are set to compete in two classes of competition.
Last season, both Williams Sim Racing (formerly Williams Esports) and Team Redline were victorious in respective class championships. Both teams and respective drivers return to defend their crowns, with Matt Farrow and Jaden Munoz again in the Williams Chillblast No. 5, this season driving a Porsche, and with Florian Lebigre and Enzo Bonito teaming up once more in the Team Redline machine, this year badged as a No. 101 Aston Martin entry.
The first race of the new season is this Sunday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Coverage starts at 2:00 p.m. ET, with the Countdown to Green prerace show leading into the event at 1:45 p.m. ET. All races will be live on the official IMSA YouTube page, as well as across all of iRacing's social media channels.
THE 2025 IMSA ESPORTS GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP COMPETING CLASSES AND CARS
The Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) car class includes:
- Acura ARX-06
- BMW M Hybrid V8
- Cadillac V-Series.R
- Porsche 963
The Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) car class includes:
- Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO
- BMW M4 GT3
- Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R
- Ferrari 296 GT3
- Ford Mustang GT3
- Lamborghini Huracan EVO GT3
- Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO
- Porsche 911 GT3 R
THE 2025 IMSA ESPORTS GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP ROSTER
52 teams make up the 2025 IMSA Esports Global Championship roster. 20 of those teams reside in the GTP class, with four manufacturers representing five teams. The other 32 teams are in the GTD class, with eight manufacturers representing four teams each. The only change between the 2024 and 2025 season is that the McLaren GTD entry will not return and instead is replaced by the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO.
The following 20 teams are entered into the GTP class for the 2025 IMSA Esports Global Championship season:
No. | Team Name | Manufacturer | Driver No. 1 | Driver No. 2 |
| 3 | CrowdStrike Racing | Acura | Tanguy Billon | Loïc Rabier |
| 4 | CrowdStrike Racing | Acura | Marcus Hamilton | Samuel Michaels |
| 5 | Williams Sim Racing Chillblast | Porsche | Matt J. Farrow | Jaden Munoz |
| 7 | Grid-and-Go.com eSports | Cadillac | Sean Campbell | Jake Denehan |
| 8 | Grid-and-Go.com eSports | Cadillac | Jesse Telkkälä | Peter Zuba |
| 10 | Williams Gaming Club | Porsche | Jere Lehtinen | Moreno Sirica |
| 11 | Fiercely Forward | Acura | Marcos Núñez | Aleix Nogué |
| 17 | Maniti Racing | BMW | Philip Schiff | David J Adam |
| 33 | BMW M Team Redline | BMW | Diogo C. Pinto | Chris Lulham |
| 34 | Team Redline | BMW | Luke McKeown | Edoardo Leo |
| 60 | SOELPEC Precision Racing | Porsche | Jordan Johnson | Arun Phull |
| 62 | SOELPEC Virtual Mindset | Porsche | Robin Schwanke | Maximilian Muir |
| 69 | DRAGO RACING | BMW | Atte Kauppinen | Alxander Spetz |
| 78 | Maniti Racing | Cadillac | Balazs Turoczy | Daniel Luczko |
| 89 | BMW M Team BS+COMPETITION | BMW | Daniel Alves Lourenco | Dominik Hofmann |
| 90 | SZESE E-Sport | Acura | Tamas Simon | Daniel Sivi-Szabo |
| 91 | Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team | Porsche | Charlie Collins | Elvis Rankin |
| 92 | Calce Team | Acura | Ivan Machado Perez | Carlos Fenollosa |
| 95 | Channel 199 Sim Racing | Cadillac | Casey Kirwan | Owen Caryl |
| 99 | Apex Racing Team | Cadillac | Maxence Godiinho | Maxime Brient |
The following 32 teams are entered into the GTD class for the 2025 IMSA Esports Global Championship season:
No. | Team Name | Manufacturer | Driver No. 1 | Driver No. 2 |
| 101 | Team Redline | Aston Martin | Florian A Lebigre | Enzo Bonito |
| 102 | Veloce Thrustmaster | Ferrari | Kody Deith | Daniel Antúnez |
| 107 | Grid-and-Go.com eSports | Ford | Jarno Koch | Dino Lombardi |
| 109 | Aston Martin Aramco Esports Team | Aston Martin | Rasmus Christensen | Lasse Bak |
| 110 | MAHLE RACING TEAM | BMW | Rainer Talvar | Ryan Barneveld |
| 111 | Fiercely Forward | Lamborghini | Niclas Laubisch | Benedek Vida |
| 112 | Fiercely Forward | Porsche | Rodrigo Meezs | Kevin Desnoyers |
| 114 | Team PGZ | BMW | Samuel L Ward | Matthieu Victorino |
| 118 | Coanda Esports | Chevrolet | Michael Janney | Tristan Iglesias |
| 119 | Team PGZ | BMW | Guillaume Lévesque | Christian Steenburgh |
| 120 | Dörr Esports | Ford | Jonas Rütten | Lewis Woods |
| 121 | Altitude FreeM Esports | Chevrolet | Denis Grabovsky | James F Beumee |
| 123 | WSR Esports | Mercedes-AMG | Gregory Hovesen | Andrew Caron |
| 126 | SZESE E-Sport | Chevrolet | Dániel Oláh | Mate Varga |
| 133 | Simufy eSports | Porsche | Gabi Montoro | Lucas Pérez |
| 144 | Visceral Esports | Lamborghini | Joni Katila | Isaac Price |
| 148 | Winward eSport by SensitHaptics | Mercedes-AMG | Florian Dührkop | Tom Reiher |
| 150 | Scuderia Ferrari HP Esports Team | Ferrari | Daniel Lafuente | Ole Steinbraten |
| 151 | MAG-Performance | Ferrari | Sacha Anglesy | Gabriel Moretto |
| 157 | Impulse Racing by GTÜ | Ferrari | Jannik Steinhoff | Ákos Borsányi |
| 167 | Williams Sim Racing Playseat | Lamborghini | Alessandro Bico | Parker White |
| 168 | DRAGO RACING | Aston Martin | Taylor Barnard | Nicolás Rubilar |
| 169 | DRAGO RACING | Aston Martin | Manuel Troncoso | Nicolas Mateo |
| 177 | EMM Esports | Lamborghini | Luca Alpert | Raphael Rennhofer |
| 181 | Coanda Esports | Chevrolet | Xander Reed | Alejandro Sánchez |
| 188 | EMM Esports | Porsche | Julian Reimer | Jerome Fischer |
| 190 | SZESE E-Sport | Porsche | David Toth | Norbi Kiss |
| 191 | Apex Racing Team | Ford | Alex Gal | Leo Gariboli |
| 196 | BS+TURNER | BMW | Felix Quirmbach | Oskari Rinne |
| 197 | Aditis Racing by WSR | Mercedes-AMG | Lukas Prada | Martin Kadlečík |
| 198 | Virtus.pro | Mercedes-AMG | Kevin Ellis Jr | Dáire Richard McCormack |
| 199 | Apex Racing Team | Ford | Yohann Harth | Luca Kita |
These teams are made up of three pools of qualified teams, including Class Champions in 2024 IMSA Esports Global Championship, 2025 VCO Grand Slam Broadcast Split GTP or GTD Class Winners, and iRacing Public Pre-Qualifying transfers. No team may have more than two cars in a single class, or three cars across all classes.
Teams can use as many substitute drivers as wanted, and there are already lineup changes expected for the opening round at Road Atlanta. Each round may also include a Michelin 'Wild Card' Entry, an additional team included in the festivities that doesn't race for points, but does race for glory. Last season, the Michelin Wild Card entries at Daytona included Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen driving a GTP.
THE 2025 IMSA ESPORTS GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
A unique twist to the series debuts in the 2025 season. It will once again be a four-round season, with three returning mainstays from the prior championship back on the schedule. The season will once again start at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta and end at Daytona International Speedway, the opposite of how it is on the real-world calendar. Sebring International Raceway also returns, this time in the second slot on the calendar, moving up from the third round in the 2024 season.
Round 3 will be unique in the sense that the classes will race separately, and at different venues for the first time in virtual competition history. The GTP class will take to the streets of Long Beach, while the GTDs will race at VIRginia International Raceway. While the normal multi-class events will take place over a two-hour, 40-minute timeframe as usual, the split races in Round 3 will be 75 minutes each instead.
Rounds 2 and 3 will also see the introduction of the IMSA Esports LMP3 Challenge, with 12 qualified drivers from the Grid Finder LMP3 Challenge competing in 20-minute, fixed setup races against select special guests. More information regarding the LMP3 Challenge will be revealed before Round 2.
- Round 1: Sunday, November 2nd | Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta
- Round 2: Sunday, November 16th | Sebring International Raceway
- Round 3: Sunday, November 23rd | Long Beach Street Circuit (GTP) & VIRginia International Raceway (GTD)
- Round 4: Sunday, December 7th | Daytona International Speedway
THE 2025 IMSA ESPORTS GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS STRUCTURE
As it has been in the last few seasons, scoring will once again include points for both Qualifying and Race finishing positions in both classes.
Winning a race will earn a team 350 points, with second scoring 320, points gapped by 20 down to fifth place, which earns 260, and then down at 10 point intervals from there, with 30th and beyond scoring 10 points. For qualifying, the pole sitting teams earn 35 points, with a similarly spaced structure going down the order until just a single point is awarded.
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