2020 Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans (Live Stream)

Paul Jeffrey · Jun 13, 2020

Welcome to the central discussion thread for the first ever official 24 Hours of Le Mans - virtual edition.

This weekend marks an historic moment for the genre of sim racing, as the WEC, Automobile Club de l'Ouest and Motorsport Games are set to host what could well turn out to be the largest organised virtual race in history - the Le Mans 24 Hours Virtual.

Held as an officially sanctioned event in place of what would have been the real Le Mans 24 Hours this weekend, the race features an incredible selection of official teams, manufacturers and drivers. Two Formula 1 World Champions, three Indy 500 victors and seven outright Le Mans 24 Hour winners join together with some of the finest rFactor 2 sim racers racing side by side with their real world contemporaries .

Held at the beautiful Le Mans circuit in rFactor 2, and making use of the LMP2 and GTE content within the simulation, the race is set to become a high watermark for the increasingly popular esport movement we are experiencing at present.

You can catch all the action live here:

GP20 · Jun 13, 2020

Huge lags killed Leclerc's race.

AndrewBo · Jun 13, 2020

@Kenny Paton

Peter Stokman · Jun 13, 2020

Kenny Paton said:
I believe it is also on some TV channels so the audience will probably be greater.
Yes it may not be the real thing but why so negative surely you can appreciate the effort that's gone into the event.

indeed here in NL its also on RTL7 tv station , they do a lot off racing coverage so surely several K ar watching here

GeekyDeaks · Jun 13, 2020

Which steam are people watching? The official YT one just decided to take a break

. I switched to Jimmy and realised he has more viewers than they had at peak!

Terry Rock · Jun 13, 2020

Ole Marius Myrvold said:
Well, "McDreamy" certainly are very much in to this !

You could see and hear the enthusiasm in his voice.
He was clearly following the racing...so too was Mario.

GP20 · Jun 13, 2020

There is a concert, The Avener. It was planned.

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GeekyDeaks · Jun 13, 2020

GP20 said:
There is a concert, The Avener. It was planned.

dang.. so no more official commentary? might see if it's on TV

Paul Jeffrey · Jun 13, 2020

WTF?!?!?!

Eurovision meets LM24 going on atm... not cool.

Ole Marius Myrvold · Jun 13, 2020

GeekyDeaks said:
Which steam are people watching? The official YT one just decided to take a break . I switched to Jimmy and realised he has more viewers than they had at peak!

GeekyDeaks said:
dang.. so no more official commentary? might see if it's on TV

I watch it on a TV-Channel in my country (or, the streaming service of that channel)

Official commentary will be back after the concert

Ole Marius Myrvold · Jun 13, 2020

Paul Jeffrey said:
WTF?!?!?!

Eurovision meets LM24 going on atm... not cool.

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Ye, as they said on the stream, there is a concert every Le Mans night, so it would be the same for this event. It also gave the commentators a chance to take a little break.

If I heard correctly, they'll be back before midnight, and I guess, midnight Le Mans time.

David Jessat · Jun 13, 2020

Gotta be a bit distracting to the guy sitting in that studio trying to drive...especially with these strobes

davehenrie · Jun 13, 2020

The guitar player must be exhausted, he's played like.....3 notes.....

David Jessat · Jun 13, 2020

davehenrie said:
The guitar player must be exhausted, he's played like.....3 notes.....

You mean he's moved his fingers, "played" is a strong word...

davehenrie · Jun 13, 2020

Koen Verlinde said:
Not even 10% of the real event.

Not sure why people call this is a success, if they wanted to promote simracing, they should have done a better job.

Ok, we'll take your number and agree to that as fact. 10%. Which is how much more than nothin?

mozzie · Jun 13, 2020

rF2 was such a bad choice. Apart from it looking really poor they can’t run one single event without having to do a server reset?! How lame.

iRacing has been able to run their world events with 20 plus splits (so like running 20 Le Mans races all at the same time) with no issues for more than a year now.

Patrik Marek · Jun 13, 2020

mozzie said:
rF2 was such a bad choice. Apart from it looking really poor they can’t run one single event without having to do a server reset?! How lame.

iRacing has been able to run their world events with 20 plus splits (so like running 20 Le Mans races all at the same time) with no issues for more than a year now.

well be it as it may, they picked RF2, maybe iRacing didnt' have the balls to do it ? or - depending if some money is involved, it was not worth it for them , we might never know
they aslo don't have the LMP2 cars, no Aston either

also speakingof visuals, I dont' think iRacing would look better

actually thinking of cars, I don't think any other major sim out there have those cars in , so they didn't really have a choice

GeekyDeaks · Jun 13, 2020

whilst I agree the reset was far from ideal, for me it's not really affected my enjoyment of the event so far. I'm actually kinda happy it did so that Barrichello could get a chance to race - although I guess you could argue that his team shouldn't have been put into the situation in the first place!

Ole Marius Myrvold · Jun 13, 2020

mozzie said:
rF2 was such a bad choice. Apart from it looking really poor they can’t run one single event without having to do a server reset?! How lame.

iRacing has been able to run their world events with 20 plus splits (so like running 20 Le Mans races all at the same time) with no issues for more than a year now.

Well, it's very much possible to run an event in rF2 without server restarts, RDLMS and the VEC (or what it is called) are the proof of that.

And iRacing have had their fair share of issues.