James King

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James King
Information
Birthdate 23 July
Country Gb.png United Kingdom
Team RAF eMotorsports
Simulations iRacing
Series Socks Out Racing
QRS Continental Endurance Sportscar Series
Gathering of Tweakers Endurance Series
NEO Endurance Series
Sports Car Open
World GT Championship
Links
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Team history
iRacing
07/2015 - 03/2019
05/2019 - 03/2021
03/2021 - Present

Biography

29 years old, James has been around the iRacing scene since 2014, joining Team Buschfink Racing the year following for a lengthy spell, then moving to SIMMSA Esports in May of 2019. King has competed in a wide variety of series, ranging from the Continental Endurance Sports Car Series in the Ford Mustang FR500S, Socks Out Racing in both the NASCAR Camping World/Gander RV & Outdoors trucks and the NASCAR Xfinity Series cars, short cameos in both the NEO Endurance Series in the GT class, and Sports Car Open in the P2 class, as well as being a regular entrant of a Daytona Prototype in iRacing Special Events featuring the car, such as the Rolex 24 at Daytona, Sebring 12 Hours, 6 Hours of Watkins Glen and Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. He is also the inaugural champion of the e-Armed Forces Touring Car Challenge, and took a 4th place finish in the Buttkicker Britcar 24hrs of Silverstone in 2022.


King holds the prestigious title of the 2018 Season 2 IMSA C7 DP Overall Championship, as well as multiple Division Championships in the Pontiac Riley MkXX. Daytona Prototype and Chevrolet Corvette C7 Daytona Prototype.

Equipment

Hardware
Rig & Seat Sim-Lab GT1 with Sparco Evo II
Wheelbase Accuforce V2
Wheelrim HRS Formula Wheel
Pedals Heusinkveld Pro Pedals
Shifter Heusinkveld Sequential Shifter
Monitor ViewSonic Elite XG350R-C
Headset Logitech Pro X Gaming Headset

Career results

Socks Out Racing neoTrans/Am Series

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Season Team No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pos Points
2015 Privateer 23 DNS DNS 10 6 6 3 6th 126
2016 Team Buschfink Racing Blue 23 7 DNS 9 11 10 5 5 11 11 9th 788

Socks Out Racing V8 SuperTrucks Series

Season Team No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pos Points
2016 Team Buschfink Racing Blue 23 9 4 4 11 DNS 9 9 9 3 6th 190
2017 Team Buschfink Racing Blue 23 7 6 6 DNS DNS DNS DNS 6 7 13th 677
2018 Team Buschfink Racing 23 5 10 DNS 8 DNS 6 6 5 10 8 8 6 7th 723
2019 Privateer 23 7 DNS 6 DNF DNF 7 7 4 7th 396

QRS Continental Endurance Sports Car Series

Season Team No. Co-Driver Stand-in Driver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pos Points
2016 Team Buschfink Racing Blue 23 Nl.png Mika Eshuis Us.png David Friedman 1 8 1 1 2 1 3 1 2 DNS 1st 808

NEO Endurance Series

Season Team Class No. Co-Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pos Points
Season 3 Team Buschfink Racing Red GT 36 Nl.png Mika Eshuis 11
Gb.png Scott Brazier
Gb.png Craig A Williams
De.png Kristof Mueller

Sports Car Open

Season Team Class No. Co-Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pos Points
2018-2019 Team Buschfink Racing Yellow PC 42 Gb.png Fraser Williamson 11 5 8 6 1 4 4th 72
Au.png Mia Ott
Us.png Tyler Hervias
Fi.png Teemu Toikka

e-Armed Forces Race Challenge

Season Team No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pos Points
2021 RAF eMotorsports 23 5 2 19 6 6 3 4 1 2 3 4 3 3 12 9 1 4 8 4 1

e-Armed Forces Touring Car Challenge

Season Team No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pos Points
2021 RAF eMotorsports 23 1 410

Armed Forces Virtual Race Challenge

Season Team No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pos Points
2022 RAF eMotorsports 23 13 231
2023 RAF eMotorsports 23 16 831