2024 Toyota Gazoo Racing North America GR Cup eSports League

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2024 TGRNA GR Cup eSports League season
Toyota Gazoo Racing North America GR Cup eSports League
Season
Races 7
Start date 30 March
End date 21 September
Season champion
Michael Polasek
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The 2024 TGRNA GR Cup eSports League (formally known as 2024 Toyota Gazoo Racing North America GR Cup eSports League) was the inagural season of Toyota Gazoo Racing North America GR Cup eSports League. It was managed and operated by SRO Motorsports Group America and hosted on iRacing. The series featured $10,000 in purse and prizes.


Only drivers with proof of residence within the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico and who were 14 years old of age or older were eligible for the league. League qualification took place from March 11th to 18th via iRacing's Time Attack feature. The Time Attack featured Sonoma Raceway - Long and Circuit of the Americas - Grand Prix, and the time attack leaderboard was based on the combined fastest lap time of the two circuits of a driver. Top 40 drivers on the leaderboard were invited to compete in the league.


A race day was structured to have a 55-minute practice session followed by drivers' meeting, a 30-minute open qualifying session, and one single 60-minute race with rolling start. Each race was broadcast live on the GT World YouTube channel and SRO Motorsports Twitch channel.[1]

Entries

All competitors utilize the Toyota GR86 Cup car and all competitors' cars were fixed to a custom-made setup by organizers.[2]


Top 40 advanced from time attack qualifiers

No. Driver name Rounds
2 Matt Friedman All
3 Thomas Bellemin All
4 Nate Stewart All
5 Jason Landry All
7 Kevin Rold All
8 Mauricio Lozano All
9 Dekota Fripp All
10 Joshua Soto All
11 Vicente Salas All
14 Logan McKinzie All
15 Alex Koffard All
17 Matt Adams All
18 Jordan RickSegrini All
19 Cameron Jordan All
21 Miguel Colón del Valle All
23 Ken Houseal All
24 Justin Nasseir All
25 Christian Menezes All
26 Jyeed Hutchinson 1-3
27 Sam Adams All
30 Yuanxi Lin All
33 Nicholas Riceputo All
34 Andre Castro All
38 Cameron Martineau All
39 Christopher Severt All
41 Ben Blaustein All
43 Keelin Terry 1-3
45 Michael Polasek All
48 Andrew Sharpe All
52 Austin Farr All
55 Paul Darling All
57 Blake Townend All
71 Chris Wetz All
73 Micah Hendricks All
77 Ryan Doucette All
87 Nicholas Sudik All
91 Elliot Budzinski All
92 Michael Janney All
95 Ethan Lampe All
99 Giovanni Romano All

Invited real-life series drivers

Team No. Driver name Rounds
BSI Racing 22 Max Hewitt 1-2,4-5
Copeland Motorsports 13 Westin Workman 1-2,5-6
51 Adam Brickley 1
Precision Racing LA 44 Aiden Yoder 1-3
88 Henry Drury 4-5
RVA Graphics Motorsports by Speed Syndicate 31 Austin Dodge 3
Smooge Racing 68 John Geesbreght 1
TechSport Racing 220 Devin Anderson 2-6
47 Ayden Kirk 5
72 Ethan Goulart 6

Reserve drivers invited after round 4

No. Driver name Rounds
03 Max Stallone 4-5
43 Nick Janney 5-6
63 Pierre-Olivier Cloutier 5,7
70 Jon Lauzon 4,7
101 Matthew Best 4-7
250 Tristan Cadet 4

Calendar

The league schedule followed the real-life series schedule with each round taken place one week ahead of the real-life race date.

Round Circuit Date
1 Sonoma Raceway - Long 30 March
2 Sebring International Raceway - International 27 April
3 Circuit of the Americas - Grand Prix 11 May
4 VIRginia International Raceway - Full Course (2023) 13 July
5 Road America - Full Course 10 August
6 Barber Motorsports Park - Full Course 31 August
7 Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Road Course (2022) 21 September

Due to iRacing not featuring the layout raced by the real-life series at Sonoma Raceway, the Long layout was used for the eSports league.

Results and standings

Season summary

Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Broadcast
1 Sonoma Raceway Vicente Salas Andre Castro Vicente Salas
2 Sebring International Raceway Thomas Bellemin Ethan Lampe Michael Janney
3 Circuit of the Americas Elliot Budzinski Christopher Severt Michael Polasek
4 VIRginia International Raceway Michael Janney Ben Blaustein Michael Polasek
5 Road America Michael Polasek Logan McKinzie Michael Polasek
6 Barber Motorsports Park Michael Janney Michael Polasek Michael Polasek
7 Indianapolis Motor Speedway Michael Polasek Nate Stewart Jason Landry

Points System

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th+
Points 35 30 25 21 18 15 13 11 9 7 5 4 3 2 1 0

Pole Position - 1 point

Standings

Pos. Driver No.

SON SEB COA VIR ROA BAR IMS Pts.
1 Michael Polasek 45 7 2 1 1 1 1 2 215
2 Jason Landry 5 34 12 5 10 2 2 1 124
3 Michael Janney 92 1 2 2 29 3 122
4 Andre Castro 34 2 7 3 5 26 6 9 119
5 Paul Darling 55 6 5 4 3 4 100
6 Nate Stewart 4 15 8 8 3 16 13 8 60
7 Thomas Bellemin 3 4 4 9 28 52
8 Yuanxi Lin 30 21 6 23 11 7 11 7 51
9 Ethan Lampe 95 3 3 23 50
10 Logan McKinzie 14 39 19 11 24 6 12 3 49
11 Christopher Severt 39 8 10 29 4 10 15 47
12 Joshua Soto 10 18 11 13 13 11 9 5 43
13 Cameron Martineau 38 12 7 6 32 10 17 39
14 Vicente Salas 11 1 36 36
15 Ben Blaustein 41 26 9 15 7 8 17 15 35
16 Matt Adams 17 9 33 28 19 4 14 18 32
17 Kevin Rold 7 10 17 17 22 5 10 32
18 Blake Townend 57 28 34 10 14 18 21 6 24
19 Jon Lauzon 70 21 4 21
20 Micah Hendricks 73 5 24 22 14 26 20
21 Austin Farr 52 16 5 18
22 Ken Houseal 23 13 9 11 17
23 Alex Koffard 15 14 14 12 9 17
24 Giovanni Romano 99 41 15 6 26 16
25 Matthew Best 101 18 25 8 12 15
26 Westin Workman 13 20 16 27 7 13
27 Henry Drury 88 8 28 11
28 Matt Friedman 2 11 32 16 12 9
29 Jordan RickSegrini 18 19 20 29 12 23 19 4
30 Nicholas Sudik 87 32 25 24 15 20 18 13 4
31 Nick Janney 43 13 16 3
32 Jyeed Hutchinson 26 13 3
33 Mauricio Lozano 8 30 21 25 19 14 2
34 Aiden Yoder 44 31 28 14 2
35 Pierre-Olivier Cloutier 63 15 20 1
36 Elliot Budzinski 91 24 35 31 21 1
37 Chris Wetz 71 23 27 22 27 23 20 16 0
38 Max Stallone 03 16 31 0
39 Devin Anderson 220 37 30 20 17 25 0
40 Tristan Cadet 250 17 0
41 Adam Brickley 51 17 0
42 Ryan Doucette 77 35 18 18 0
43 Cameron Jordan 19 22 29 19 0
44 Ayden Kirk 47 19 0
45 Andrew Sharpe 48 27 23 20 30 27 0
46 Justin Nasseir 25 33 26 21 0
47 Miguel Colón del Valle 21 25 30 26 22 0
48 Sam Adams 27 40 22 0
49 Max Hewitt 22 42 31 25 24 0
50 Ethan Goulart 72 24 0
51 Austin Dodge 31 27 0
52 Christian Menezes 25 29 0
53 Nicholas Riceputo 33 37 33 0
54 Keelin Terry 43 36 0
55 Dekota Fripp 9 38 0
56 John Geesbreght 68 43 0
Color Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green 4th & 5th place
Light Blue 6th – 10th place
Dark Blue Finished
Purple Did not finish
Red Did not qualify
Black Disqualified / Excluded
White Did not start
Blank Did not participate

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