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Founding Date: July 2017

Country: United States

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 :

  • David Levine

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

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
Drivers Out :

  • Frederik Vesti

2020[]

Driver Roster[]

Active[]

Active drivers
Name Join date Series Mehdi El Fathy 07/2017
Brian Lockwood 07/2017 2020 Porsche Esports Supercup

2020 Geodesic GoPro Championship

Luca A Crisafi 07/2017
Andrew Procario 06/2018
Jonny Edgar 04/2020
Marko Nurmela 12/2018 2020 RaceTech Euro V8 Supercars
Richard Allsopp 12/2018 2020 RaceTech Euro V8 Supercars
Alexandros Hadjivarnava 12/2018
John Miller III 12/2018 2020 RaceTech Euro V8 Supercars

2020 Geodesic GoPro Championship

Kane Halliburton 01/2019 2020 RaceTech Euro V8 Supercars
Robert Noaker 07/2019
Gabriel Pereira 07/2019
Nick Harwood 09/2019
Diogo Francisco 12/2019
Justin Tipton 01/2020 2020 Geodesic GoPro Championship
Jonathon White 03/2020

Inactive[]

Inactive Drivers
Name Join date
David Levine 08/2017
Devin Singh 07/2017

Former Drivers[]

Former drivers
Name Join date Leave date New team
Frederik Vesti 01/2019 04/2019 Williams JIM Esports
Victor Tanaka 08/2019 01/2020 FitzSty Motorsport
James Pull 10/2018 03/2020

Guest Drivers[]

Guest drivers
Name Races Dexter Castro 2019 Daytona 24H
Jonny Edgar 2020 Daytona 24H

2020 Bathurst 12H

David Haines 2020 Bathurst 12H
Joseph Janowski 2019 Sports Car Open GT Series
Elias Seppänen 2020 Bathurst 12H
Antti Terho 2020 Daytona 24H
Jonathon White 2020 Daytona 24H

2020 Bathurst 12H

Team results[]

2019 Sports Car Open GT Series[]

Team No. Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 Pos Points
RaceKraft Esports Team Phoenix 43 Kane Halliburton 5 4 3 DNS 2 4th 80
Brian Lockwood
Andrew Procario
Team No. Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 Pos Points
RaceKraft Esports Team Aquila 177 Mehdi El Fathy DNF DNF 4 10 6 7th 63
Nick Harwood
John Miller III
Luca A Crisafi
James Pull
Joseph Janowski

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)

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