Porsche Coanda Esports, Bleu Mercure Esport earn IMSA Esports Global Championship class wins at Sebring

October 13th, 2026 by

The bumps were tested and ultimately respected on Sunday afternoon as the IMSA Esports Global Championship took to Sebring International Raceway for the second round of the 2026 championship season. On paper, it was a relatively simple race in the fact that the two class pole sitters—the No. 91 Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team and the No. 132 Bleu Mercure Esport Porsche—wound up also in victory lane at the end of the day.

For the most part, that was true for the No. 132 team, that car split between Thibault Cazaubon and Corentin Lassine, as they managed the traffic from behind to win by over four seconds after two hours and 40 minutes of action. The same could not totally be said for the No. 91 team, that machine split by Alejandro Sánchez and Charlie Collins, who battled a potentially race altering fuel strategy, as well as, in Sánchez’s case, a throttle issue towards the conclusion of the day with the No. 8 Grid-and-Go.com eSports Valkyrie of Jake Denehan and Jere Lehtinen closing in towards the finish.

“I got that gap at the start, and the start lane being so small, I was actually a bit surprised at how big of a gap I got,” said Collins, who opened the day inside the No. 91 Porsche Coanda ride. “After that, I just kind of settled into a rhythm. I hadn’t done much traffic practice, so that was a bit stressful, going through traffic the first time, but after that, just kind of got into a good rhythm, and from there on, it was pretty smooth sailing at least for me personally.”

The smooth sailing wore off for that team for Sánchez, who also won the Porsche Esports Supercup event the day prior, towards the end of the event. “I was managing a broken throttle pedal,” Sánchez said. ” I wasn’t getting 100 percent, it was dancing around 70 percent. I had to push it with my whole body basically on the straights to make it go anywhere close. On the next corner, it would just go back to normal. It was like built-in TC. I don’t know how we managed, but we managed in the end.”

A less stressful victory awaited the No. 32 group moments later. Lassine started the race in the seat, and did everything he could to break off from the rest of the train. “The goal was just to keep the position until the traffic, and I managed to do well in the corners… they were all fighting, and I was basically gone,” Lassine said. His teammate, Cazaubon, brought it home from the switch-off point, managing that gap earned early. “Honestly, it was perfect,” said Cazaubon. “I just had to finish the race. We worked a lot on the setup, so we are very happy about the setup. We completely optimized the car.”

The winners of the first round in the GTP ranks, the No. 31 Bleu Mercure Esport Acura of Alxander Spetz and Atte Kauppinen, backed up their opening performance with another podium, finishing in third. The No. 8 Grid-and-Go Valkyrie has two second place runs to start the season. Those two teams have a nice gap on the rest of the field, with the No. 31 ahead of the No. 8 by just 13 points leaving Sebring.

As for the GTD contingent, the No. 132 jumps up to the lead, giving Bleu Mercure the points lead in both classes. The No. 107 Risi Competizione by GnG Ferrari, driven by Daniel Pásztor and Nicolas Mateo, only managed a sixth at Sebring, and the duo falls to second as a result, 23 points back.

As opposed to last week, both classes saw perfect point scores for the first time in the 2026 season. Weather stayed dry through the afternoon, and now just three rounds remain before two champions are crowned, the next battle up being in two weeks at Watkins Glen International.

SEBRING 240 | ROUND 2 | GTP RESULTS

POS. ST. NO. TEAM MANUFACTURER DRIVER 1 DRIVER 2 INTERVAL PTS.
1 1 91 Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team Porsche Alejandro Sánchez Charlie Collins 0.000 385
2 3 8 Grid-and-Go.com eSports Aston Martin Jake Denehan Jere Lehtinen -1.128 350
3 5 31 Bleu Mercure Esport Acura Alxander Spetz Atte Kauppinen -11.044 326
4 6 1 BMW M Verstappen Sim Racing BMW Diogo Pinto Enzo Bonito -12.279 305
5 11 92 Vesta Sport Porsche Niklas Beu Przemyslaw Lemanek -23.399 280
6 9 81 Coanda Esports Porsche Elliott Vayron Victor Wolfsohn -24.697 272
7 7 89 BMW M Team BS COMPETITION BMW Daniel Lourenco Jaden Munoz -30.319 264
8 8 62 SOELPEC Precision Racing Aston Martin Markus Søholm Maximillian Muir -46.396 253
9 10 32 Bleu Mercure Esport Acura Augustin Bernier Maxime Brient -47.933 241
10 2 7 Grid-and-Go.com eSports Aston Martin Peter Zuba Aleix Nogué -1:04.428 242
11 20 3 Mivano Acura Loïc Rabier Marcus Hamilton -1:04.820 211
12 14 98 P1Sim Pro Team Cadillac Lucas Bayle Josh Lad -1:06.019 207
13 18 4 Mivano Acura Andrea Barilaro Tanguy Billon -1:27.128 193
14 19 96 Tatum Res-Tech NordVPN Cadillac Nicolò Fioroni Raffaele De Santis -1:39.812 182
15 17 43 XBD RACING SIMLAB Cadillac Unai Ortiz Alberto García Blasco -1 L 174
16 16 69 Tatum Res-Tech MOZA Racing Cadillac Mattia Isetta Matteo Aurucci -1 L 165
17 13 88 Deletraz Automotive by PCdesign Porsche Michal Zajac Aiden Mataisz -1 L 158
18 12 78 Maniti Racing BMW Philip Schiff Adriano Di Chiara -2 L 149
19 15 17 Maniti Racing Aston Martin Tristan Cabrera Chris van de Nesse -6 L 136
20 4 33 Verstappen Sim Racing BMW Chris Lulham Luke McKeown -57 L 138

GTP STANDINGS AFTER ROUND 2 AT SEBRING INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY

POS. NO. TEAM MANUFACTURER PTS. WINS POLES T-5’s T-10’s
1 31 Bleu Mercure Esport Acura 708 1 0 2 2
2 8 Grid-and-Go.com eSports Aston Martin -13 0 0 2 2
3 91 Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team Porsche -163 1 1 1 1
4 32 Bleu Mercure Esport Acura -165 0 0 1 2
5 62 SOELPEC Precision Racing Aston Martin -183 0 0 1 2
7 81 Coanda Esports Porsche -185 0 0 0 2
6 7 Grid-and-Go.com eSports Aston Martin -200 0 0 0 2
8 92 Vesta Sport Porsche -243 0 1 1 1
9 33 Verstappen Sim Racing BMW -247 0 0 1 1
10 4 Mivano Acura -256 0 0 0 1

SEBRING 240 | ROUND 2 | GTD RESULTS

POS. ST. NO. TEAM MANUFACTURER DRIVER 1 DRIVER 2 INTERVAL PTS.
1 1 132 Bleu Mercure Esport Porsche Thibault Cazaubon Corentin Lassine 0.000 385
2 4 179 Alpha One by SX Porsche Luca Wunsch Lewis Woods -4.522 348
3 2 199 Nova Legio Racing Lamborghini Kevin Ellis Jr Yohann Harth -6.916 332
4 3 142 THE FARM Porsche Geoffrey Leemans Baptiste Jimenez -18.011 310
5 7 162 VØRAX Mercedes-AMG Nicolás Rubilar Felipe Cabrera Loyola -23.281 284
6 10 107 Risi Competizione by GnG Ferrari Daniel Pásztor Nicolas Mateo -34.447 271
7 6 124 TC Esports Chevrolet Carlos Fenollosa Pablo Espes -34.96 265
8 13 196 BS TURNER BMW Oskari Rinne Daniel Lafuente -35.113 248
9 18 126 UNI-G Racing Lamborghini Dániel Oláh Mate Varga -40.687 233
10 12 115 EMM Esports Chevrolet Luca Alpert Jerome Fischer -42.836 229
11 14 171 BMW M Team MOUZ BMW Maximilian Benecke Yurica Kasdorp -50.274 217
12 9 198 Nova Legio Racing Lamborghini Ricardo Rico R. Daniel Antúnez -55.227 212
13 16 112 Fiercely Forward Lamborghini Niclas Laubisch Luca Gramke -1:04.101 195
14 17 128 Vesta Sport Ferrari Sem Giesbers Gaël Valero -1:11.772 184
15 29 188 WSR Esports Aston Martin Lukas Prada Marley Joffe -1:13.502 162
16 27 134 natural elements by Walkenhorst Aston Martin Josh Thompson Gregory Hovesen -1:18.104 154
17 20 190 UNI-G Racing Ford Mate Mihalidesz Balazs Palla -1:24.710 151
18 25 178 Maniti Racing Ford Tim Kern Ryan van de Grijp -1:33.108 136
19 30 187 WSR Esports Aston Martin Andrew Caron Kamil Grabowski -1:34.822 121
20 21 141 THE FARM Ferrari Enzo Tebani Nicolas Lux -1:41.952 120
21 31 121 Ronin-Sim-Sport.com Mercedes-AMG Shoma Shintani Pablo Mercerat -2:08.391 101
22 26 114 EMM Esports Chevrolet Dáire McCormack Martin Kadlečík -2:14.369 95
23 5 109 Team Purple Coanda Ford Andrea Aymon Diana Perez -1 L 106
24 32 125 SDR SIMRACING Ford Marcos Saavedra Dino Filippa -1 L 71
25 22 144 TC Esports Academy Chevrolet Miroslaw X Kravchenko Vicente Aparicio -3 L 69
26 24 123 SDR Simracing BMW Fabrizio Belziti Juan Bleynat -22 L 57
27 11 110 MAHLE RACING TEAM BMW Rainer Talvar Felix Quirmbach -23 L 60
28 8 177 Zero7 Racing Porsche Lorenzo Castellani Juan Lemus -29 L 53
29 23 118 Altitude FreeM eSports Aston Martin Harrison Crowther Francis Mcginn -62 L 28
30 28 111 Ronin-Sim-Sport.com Ferrari Lewis Barlow Henry Joslyn -66 L 13
31 15 161 VØRAX Mercedes-AMG Manuel Troncoso Beckham Jacir -69 L 26
32 19 127 Vesta Sport Mercedes-AMG Samuele Spiezio Roberto Rebechi -77 L 22

GTD STANDINGS AFTER ROUND 2 AT SEBRING INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY

POS. NO. TEAM MANUFACTURER PTS. WINS POLES T-5’s T-10’s
1 132 Bleu Mercure Esport Porsche 668 1 1 2 2
2 107 Risi Competizione by GnG Ferrari -23 1 0 1 2
3 199 Nova Legio Racing Lamborghini -111 0 0 1 1
4 124 TC Esports Chevrolet -131 0 0 0 2
5 171 BMW M Team MOUZ BMW -153 0 0 1 1
6 179 Alpha One by SX Porsche -169 0 0 1 1
7 196 BS TURNER BMW -202 0 0 0 2
8 114 EMM Esports Chevrolet -217 0 1 1 1
9 126 UNI-G Racing Lamborghini -235 0 0 0 1
10 134 natural elements by Walkenhorst Aston Martin -236 0 0 0 1

SEBRING 240 PROTEST REPORT

NEXT RACE

After Sebring International Raceway, the series continues for the third race of the season at Watkins Glen International, in two weeks on October 25th.

Each race of the IMSA Esports Global Championship will be broadcasted live on IMSA’s and iRacing’s social channels with the Countdown to Green pre-race show beginning at 1:45 p.m. ET (18:45 GMT). Race coverage begins at 2:00 p.m. ET.

For more information on the IMSA Esports Global Championship, visit iracing.com/imsa-esports.

For more information about the Virtual Competition Organisation (VCO), visit vco-esports.com.

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