RaceKraft Esports
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| Founding date | July 2017 |
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| Country |  International
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| Simulations | iRacing.com |
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RaceKraft Esports (RKE) is an international sim racing team based on the iRacing.com simulator service.
Founded by Brian Lockwood and Mehdi El Fathy in 2017 with no high-level experience, few connections, and only a shared passion for simracing, the team (formerly called RaceKraft Engineering) was solely a Skip Barber F2000 team for its first year – earning a championship and 3rd place in the top Skippy league (the 2K World Cup) – before moving on to the F3 at the start of 2019 and dominating the season of its release, achieving a few World Records at the time.
Since then, they have shifted their focus to entering the highest level of iRacing’s esports scene, such as the 2019 Sports Car Open GT Series and the 2019-2020 24H SERIES ESPORTS.
History
2017
After a few weeks of talks between Mehdi and Brian, RaceKraft Engineering was created in July 2017 in order to compete on iRacing. Early focus was done on the management part while competing in various Mazda MX-5 Cup and Skip Barber Formula 2000 events.
- Drivers In :
- Mehdi El Fathy
- Brian Lockwood
- Devin Singh
- Luca Crisafi
- David Levine
- Mehdi El Fathy
2018
RaceKraft participated in its first few events as a team, most notably the Skip Barber 12H of Watkins Glen, with the team grabbing a podium. The team involvement in the 2K World Cup was getting more and more important, as Brian Lockwood won the 1st season of the year in a very tight field. The recruitment of Andrew Procario, an accustomed Skip Barber driver, reinforced the roster mid-way through the year, whereas real-life GT World Challenge driver James Pull joined a few months later.
The team's main breakthrough was during the introduction of the Dallara Formula 3 car on iRacing, where RaceKraft managed to be one of the top teams, thanks to a close collaboration with The Racing Network, a team comprising core drivers Marko Nurmela, Alex Hadjivarnava, Richard Allsopp and John Miller III
- Drivers In :
- Andrew Procario
- James Pull
- Marko Nurmela
- Alexandros Hadjivarnava
- Richard Allsopp
- John Miller III
- Andrew Procario
2019
The first iRacing Formula 3 season ending in the first few months of 2019 was the team's best season since the beginning, thanks to multiple world records chased during the official races, and culminated with the first championship won by new team member Kane Halliburton, alongside race wins in the World F3 Championship league.
The iRacing 24H of Daytona was the first official Special Event the team partaked in, fielding two GT3 cars in a joint venture alongside The Racing Network. The first car (Team Yellow) drove in top split for the main time slot, qualifying in 4th position before an incident in the 1st hour meant they had to retire. The second car (Team Green) wasn't as lucky as it got caught in internet throughput issues in Split 4 and couldn't start the race. An extra time slot opened by iRacing made it possible for both cars to run, and Team Yellow took advantage of this by winning the race, having the third fastest lap time of all splits/time slots. Unfortunately Team Green had to drop out of the race after 6 hours.
- Drivers In :
- Kane Halliburton
- Frederik Vesti
- Robert Noaker
- Gabriel Pereira
- Victor Tanaka
- Nick Harwood
- Diogo Francisco
- Kane Halliburton
- Drivers Out :
- Frederik Vesti
- Frederik Vesti
2020
Driver Roster
Active
| Active drivers | ||
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| Name | Join date | Series |
 Luca A Crisafi
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07/2017 | |
 Andrew Procario
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06/2018 | |
 Marko Nurmela
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12/2018 | 2020 RaceTech Euro V8 Supercars |
| Richard Allsopp
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12/2018 | 2020 RaceTech Euro V8 Supercars |
 Alexandros Hadjivarnava
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12/2018 | |
| John Miller III
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12/2018 | 2020 RaceTech Euro V8 Supercars 2020 Geodesic GoPro Championship |
 Kane Halliburton
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01/2019 | 2020 RaceTech Euro V8 Supercars |
| Robert Noaker
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07/2019 | |
 Gabriel Pereira
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07/2019 | |
| Nick Harwood
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09/2019 | |
| Diogo Francisco
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12/2019 | |
| Justin Tipton
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01/2020 | 2020 Geodesic GoPro Championship |
| Jonathon White
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03/2020 | |
| Jonny Edgar
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04/2020 | |
 Racim Fezoui
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06/2020 | |
Inactive
| Inactive Drivers | |
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| Name | Join date |
| David Levine
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08/2017 |
| Devin Singh
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07/2017 |
Former Drivers
| Former drivers | ||||
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| Name | Join date | Leave date | New team | |
 Frederik Vesti
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01/2019 | 04/2019 | Williams JIM Esports | |
  Victor Tanaka
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08/2019 | 01/2020 | FitzSty Motorsport | |
 James Pull
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10/2018 | 03/2020 | ||
  Mehdi El Fathy
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07/2017 | 01/2021 | R8G Esports | |
 Sam Kuitert
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??/20?? | 11/2021 | URANO eSports | |
| Brian Lockwood
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07/2017 | 01/2022 | URANO eSports | |
Guest Drivers
| Guest drivers | ||||
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| Name | Races | |||
| Dexter Castro
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2019 Daytona 24H | |||
| Jonny Edgar
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2020 Daytona 24H 2020 Bathurst 12H | |||
 David Haines
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2020 Bathurst 12H | |||
| Joseph Janowski
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2019 Sports Car Open GT Series | |||
| Elias Seppänen
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2020 Bathurst 12H | |||
| Antti Terho
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2020 Daytona 24H | |||
Team results
Sports Car Open GT Series
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Season | Team | No. | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Pos | Points |
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| 2019 | RaceKraft Esports Team Phoenix | 43 | Kane Halliburton
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5 | 4 | 3 | DNS | 2 | 4th | 80 |
| Brian Lockwood
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| Andrew Procario
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| RaceKraft Esports Team Aquila | 177 | Mehdi El Fathy
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DNF | DNF | 4 | 10 | 6 | 7th | 63 | |
| Nick Harwood
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| John Miller III
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| Luca A Crisafi
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| James Pull
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| Joseph Janowski
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Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Season | Driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Pos | Points |
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| 2020 | Brian Lockwood
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43 | 35 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 28 | 23 | 13 | 11 | 28 | 20 | 29 | 31 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 25 | DNS | DNS | 11 | 17 | 21st | 165 |
| 2021 | Brian Lockwood
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43 | 30 | 36 | 24 | 17 | 24 | 25 | 34 | 22 | 38 | 21 | 26 | 15 | 35 | 24 | 26 | 21 | 17 | 16 | 23 | 11 | 28th | 72 |
Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup Qualifer
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Season | Driver | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | Pos | Points |
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| 2021 | Brian Lockwood
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9 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 5th | 120 |
Cars
All of the RaceKraft liveries feature the distinctive "R" logo on the sides in Metallic Gold, along with the team's black and white colors.
As of 2020, the team could be seen using the following cars :
Audi RS3 LMS TCR (iRacing) (IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, 2019-2020 24H SERIES ESPORTS)
Ferrari 488 GTE (iRacing) (IMSA Sportscar Championship)
Mercedes AMG GT3 (iRacing) (Sports Car Open GT Series, 2019 iRacing Daytona 24H)
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (iRacing) (Porsche Pro Qualifiers, DFGX Clubsport Series)
BMW M8 GTE (iRacing) (IMSA Sportscar Championship, 2020 iRacing Daytona 24H)
BMW Z4 GT3 (iRacing) (2020 iRacing Bathurst 12H)
