Brazilian Enzo Fittipaldi, grandson of double Components One world champion Emerson, received the primary digital grand prix of the 12 months for Haas on Sunday after a scrap with Arthur Leclerc, youthful brother of Ferrari driver Charles.

The 19-year-old received the 36 lap race round a video model of Austria’s Crimson Bull Ring after the beginning grid was set in a dash race that includes skilled players from the F1 esports collection.

That 5 lap opener was received by Ferrari’s 2019 esports champion David Tonizza, making certain New Zealand’s F2 driver Marcus Armstrong — a Ferrari Driver Academy member — began the function race on pole.

Leclerc began third because of the efforts of double esports champion Brendon Leigh in his first race for Ferrari after leaving Mercedes.

Leclerc was handed by Fittipaldi on lap 28 and dropped to 3rd on the end, behind Mercedes’ Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne when penalties had been utilized.

Actual Madrid and Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, representing Alfa Romeo, set the quickest lap of the race.

The digital Grand Prix collection consists of three races on successive weekends, with the opposite two on digital Silverstone and Interlagos circuits.

Components One staged digital grands prix with players, celebrities and a number of the groups’ actual drivers final 12 months to offer leisure whereas the season was on maintain as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

The eight races staged had been watched by greater than 30 million folks, based on Components One, with Williams’ George Russell rising because the winner.

Russell needed to withdraw from Sunday’s race however Canadian group mate Nicholas Latifi took half. Former F1 drivers competing had been Vandoorne, Anthony Davidson, Alexander Albon, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Fittipaldi’s older brother Pietro.

This 12 months’s races have a charity prize fund with groups’ winnings going to the causes of their alternative.

The actual Components One season begins in Bahrain on March 28.