Submit your details below to start receiving regular emails with the latest motorsport news, analysis, podcast and videos from our world-class team of journalists.The Race started in February 2020 as a digital-only motorsport channel. Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.We have detected that you are using an adblocker browser plugin to disable advertising from loading on our website.The revenue earned from advertising enables us to provide the quaity of content you're trying to reach on this site. Even though we did not get the results we hoped for at those events, we still were able to learn a lot and put that towards the rest of the season. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. I am confident Canapino will have great success as he brings a lot of experience from both the real life sportscar racing and virtual racing world. It will be great to watch our No.66 entry in the field with so many talented drivers from around the world, who compete in all of the highest levels of motorsports. Agustin Canapino, a 14-time Argentinean touring car champion, piloted the Juncos Racing entry at the Rolex 24 At Daytona and the Twelve Hours of Sebring. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. 66 Juncos Racing eSports entry. Williams is one of the world’s leading Formula 1 teams. ",Juncos Racing Team Owner Ricardo Juncos said, "We are really happy to be back racing with the IMSA series, competing within their virtual racing championship. He’s only the second racing driver ever to win it, with the first being legendary five-time Formula 1 world champion Juan Manuel Fangio.“Fortunately, in my country, motorsport is very popular and prestigious.” Canapino said.“My social media reflects this, in a very small country compared to the major powers, the followers are lots because here the world of racing is very popular and important.”.As someone who has plentiful experience in both forms of racing, Canapino believes there isn’t much difference between what he does on track and on the simulator.“The difference is that in the virtual world you do not have the danger of hurting yourself, the cost of damaging the car and you can practice as many times as you want. The rest is incredibly similar.” He said.Despite the similarities between the two, the small differences mean he considers his toughest challenge in the world of sim racing is to “be at the level of the simracers, who are exclusively dedicated to this and have a lot of practice on the simulator.“Real drivers sometimes give us some time for doing ‘real things’, because despite being increasingly better simulators, it is still a game and has its secrets.“Each commitment I want to do my best and try to win it.”.While esports has garnered a lot more attention recently in the absence of any real world motorsports events, Canapino still doesn’t believe sim racing will ever he bigger than the real deal.“The virtual world is what it is thanks to the real world,” he says.“I think there are two parallel worlds that are related but don’t step on each other and not only that both can, but need to relate both so that they can grow together.“A real world would not be the same today without the virtual, and obviously, the virtual would not be the same without the real, because there would be nothing to simulate!”,Red Bull Racing Esports won the Super Final of the 2020 Le Mans Esports Series, held in a revised format over four days,Hany Alsabti becomes the fourth driver for Romain Grosjean’s R8G Esports team to qualify for the BMW SIM Live final to be held later in the year,A contemporary of Lando Norris and George Russell in karts, Shanaka Clay took his racing online for budget reasons in his teens. ",Round 4 of the IMSA iRacing Pro Invitational will take place on the 4.014-mile, 14-turn virtual road course at Road America. These cookies do not store any personal information.Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. "Last year we had a great experience running in the real life IMSA series, which I was part of at the two biggest endurance events of the year. Juncos Racing eSports is pleased to announce Agustin Canapino will join the team for the WeatherTech Presents IMSA iRacing at Road America event this Thursday May 14.Juncos Racing made their debut in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship during the 2019 season, running the No.50 Cadillac DPi-V.R entry in eight of the 10 events. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Part of the MAHLE RACING TEAM, which is backed by Williams Esports, he’s represented it in one of this year’s special iRacing events.

I would like to thank IMSA for the opportunity to compete in the IMSA iRacing Pro Invitational and look forward to a great event this Thursday! I am also excited to represent the Argentinean people and hope everyone has a chance to tune in and watch us compete at Road America this Thursday. “I started from a very young age, with the famous Grand Prix 2, GP3 and GP4,” he says.“From there always until today, I was linked to the world of simracing.”.In the past he also took part in various esports leagues held by GPVWC, starting in 2006 and participating sporadically until 2016.In that time he took a total of 15 race wins, eight of which were in his favoured class of racing – touring cars.Outside of sim racing Canapino has also won the national Golden Olympia award given to the best Argentinian athlete of the year.