LFS players in real life motorsports
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThis article aims to collect information about LFS players who have been or are active in real life motorsports as well. Over the years, there have been multiple attempts by the community to create lists of these drivers, more or less partially. At the very least, a person appearing in the list is based on any kind of mention on the LFS forums (so, if a community member mentioned them playing LFS, they are included in the list). Feel free to expand the table with (preferably referenced) information you find or know. For detailed guidelines on how to contribute, see section Guidelines below the table.
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Disclaimer: The list is non-exhaustive, and does not distinguish the fact that a driver first got into simracing and then into real life motorsports, or the other way (and that is not the point, really). Might there be any inaccuracies, outdated or controversial information either spotted by community members or the drivers themselves, feel free to shed light on them in the LFS Community Discord server (#lfs-manual channel), create a post on the Discussions page of this article, or contact one of the editors here directly. |
LFS players in real life motorsports
| Name | Main discipline(s) | Championships | Achievements | DriverDB | Active years in LFS | LFSW username | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rudy van Buren | GT racing | Porsche Carrera Cup Germany, Porsche Supercup | DriverDB | 2007–2012, 2014, 2019 | Rudy van Buren | 1 2 | |
| Dennis Lind | GT racing | Lambo Super Trofeo Europe/World Finals, Blancpain GT, British GT, GT World Challenge Europe/Asia, Nürburg 24h | 1st: British GT Champ-GT3 (2021), 2nd: GTWCEu-ProAm (2023) | DriverDB | ? – currently active | Dennis93 | 1 2 |
| Valtteri Bottas | Formula racing | Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup / Northern European Cup, GP3, British F3, Formula 1 | 1st: GP3 (2011), 1st: FR2.0EC/NEC (2008), 2nd: F1 (2019, 2020) | DriverDB | 2006–2009 | Vale | 1 2 |
| Nicky Catsburg | GT racing | Daytona 24h, WTCC, Bathurst 12h, IMSA SSC, GT World Challenge Europe, 24h of Le Mans, WEC | 1st: WEC-LMGTEAm (2023), 1st: AsLMS-GT (2023), 1st: IGTChall (2020) | DriverDB | 2005–2012 | NickC | 1 2 |
| Kelvin van der Linde | GT, Formula racing | Bathurst 12h, Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup, GT Masters, DTM, Formula E | 1st: ADAC GT Masters (2014, 2019), 1st: 24h Nürburg (2017, 2022) | DriverDB | Unknown | 1 | |
| Kevin Korjus | Formula, GT racing | FR2.0, Auto GP, FR3.5, GP3 Series, FIA F3 European Champ, Blancpain Endurance, Renault Sport Trophy | 1st: FR2.0 Eurocup (2010), 2nd: Renault Sport Trophy (2016) | DriverDB | kardisoitja | 1 2 3 | |
| Enzo Fazzi | server chat | ||||||
| Scott Andrews | IMSA SportsCar Championship, Formula Ford 1600 Australia, F1600 Championship Series | DriverDB | DuCK | 1 | |||
| Norbert Kiss | Truck, Touring car racing | SEAT León Supercopa, FIA European Truck Racing Championship | 1st: ETRC (2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) | DriverDB | 2003–2013, 2015, 2020 | Norbi | 1 2 |
| Teemu Suninen | Rally | WRC, ERC | 2nd: WRC2 (2016), 3rd: WRC2 (2017) | DriverDB | marakattimax | 1 | |
| Christian Krognes | VLN, 24h of Nürburgring | DriverDB | Chriskart | 1 2 | |||
| Philip Ellis | GT racing | Audi Sport TT Cup, IMSA SSC, F3 Europe, ADAC GT Masters, DTM, Nürburg 24h, Formula Lista Junior | 1st: Audi TT Cup (2017), 1st: Formula LO (2011), 1st: 24h Nürburg (2021) | DriverDB | painster | 1 2 | |
| Christer Jöns | GT racing | "various GT3 champs"? ADAC GT4/GT Masters, 24h of Nürburgring, VLN | DriverDB | Unknown | 1 | ||
| Michael van der Mark | Motorcycle racing | World Superbikes | WorldSBK | michaelvdm | 1 | ||
| Robin Larsson | Rallycross | World RX, Euro RX, Nitrocross | DriverDB | robin_l | 1 | ||
| Fabien Pailler | Rallycross | French RX, Euro RX | DriverDB | Busta | 1 2 3 | ||
| Jonathan Pailler | Rallycross | French RX, Euro RX | DriverDB | 2003–?, 2021–2023 | Stann | 1 2 | |
| Steven Bossard | Rallycross | French RX, Euro RX (Super 1600) | 1st: FFSA RX Supercars (2024) | DriverDB | Beniwiwi | 1 2 3 | |
| Sami-Matti Trogen | GT racing | Spanish F4, ADAC GT4, VLN, 24h of Nürburgring | DriverDB | s.trogen | 1 | ||
| Gabriel Casagrande | Touring car racing | Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, Campeonato Brasileiro de Turismo, Stock Car Pro Series Brasil | 1st: SCPS Br. (2021, 2023), 2nd: SCPS Br. (2022), 3rd: CBdT (2013) | DriverDB | 320_ | 1 | |
| Julien Schein | 25h of Spa "Fun Cup" | DriverDB | A3rox | 1 | |||
| Tor Arne Kvia | Drifting | Norwegian Drift Championship, Drift Masters European Championship | 1st: Norwegian Drift Championship (2020, 2023) | DriverDB | toridriver | 1 | |
| Filip Thorén | Rallycross | RallyX Nordic (Rallycross Supercar), Euro RX | DriverDB | Filip Thoren | 1 | ||
| Calle Carlberg | Rally | ERC4, Junior ERC | 2nd: Junior ERC (2024) | eWRC | Unknown | 1 | |
| Kalle Gustafsson | Rally | ERC | DriverDB | kgh limitless | 1 | ||
| Patrik Hallberg | Rally | ERC4, Junior ERC | 1st: Swedish Junior 2WD (2024) | eWRC | Unknown | 1 | |
| Thomas Arends | Dutch GT4 Championship | DriverDB | Thommm | 1 2 3 | |||
| David Williams | GT Academy | My3id_Dave | 1 2 3 | ||||
| Kenneth O'Keefe | Karting | DriverDB | 1 2 | ||||
| Niall Murray | Formula, GT racing | Ginetta Junior Ireland, Formula Ford 1600 Ireland, SEAT Supercup Ireland | 1st: GJI (2010), FF1600 Northern Ireland (2014) | DriverDB | n-murray | 1 2 3 | |
| James Peace | Karting, Formula racing | InterSteps Championship | DriverDB | vipex123 | 1 2 | ||
| Andy O'Brien | Ginetta Junior Ireland, Ginetta GT5 Challenge | 1st: GJI (2011), 2nd: GJI (2010) | DriverDB | aobrien | 1 2 | ||
| Robin Friskopps | Swedish Formula Basic Factor-X Cup, SSK | DriverDB | Robendo | 1 2 3 | |||
| Tommy Østgaard | Formula Basic Norwegian Cup, Factor-X Cup, SSK | DriverDB | Tomhah | 1 2 | |||
| Robin Nilsson | Legends racing | Legends Racing Sweden | LRS | rog_nilsson | 1, himself | ||
| Kevin O'Sullivan | Karting | IKC & MI Karting Championship | 11SuLLy11 | 1 2 | |||
| Martín Córdoba | Formula racing | Fórmula 3 Metropolitana | DriverDB | ThiagoFalivene | LFS Discord | ||
| Heikki Koski-Lammi | Rally | F-Cup | eWRC | pehas2 | 1 | ||
| Toni Lähteenmäki | Stock car racing | V1600 Cup Finland, Camaro Cup (V8 Thunder Cars) | 1st: V1600 (2011, 12), V8TC (FIN: 2014, NEZ: 17, 19, 20, SM: 21, 22) | DriverDB | FL4SH- | 1, LFSDC | |
| Tomáš Enge | DriverDB | Tomas Enge | 1 2 3 | ||||
| David Vršecký | DriverDB | David Vrsecky | 1 2 3 | ||||
| Aliyyah Koloc | DriverDB | Unknown | 1 2 | ||||
| Alex Golovnya | Drifting | 1 | |||||
| Damir Idiyatulin | Drifting | Damiracer | 1 | ||||
| Ekaterina Sedykh | Drifting | 1 | |||||
| Aleksandr Grinchuk | 1 | ||||||
| Ivan Bobrovsky | 1 | ||||||
| Maxim Miller | Drifting | 1 | |||||
| Taylor Ray | Drifting | tayloray | 1 | ||||
| Pawel Trela | 1 | ||||||
| Alexey Katoliychuk | 1 | ||||||
| Nick Makarov | 1 | ||||||
| Nikita Isaev | 1 | ||||||
| Konstantin Ivanov | 1 | ||||||
| Denis Morozov | 1 | ||||||
| Javier Dopazo | 1 | ||||||
| Tot Igor | 1 | ||||||
| Artur Toyotik | 1 | ||||||
| Kirill Belyaikin | 1 | ||||||
| Evgeny Rybinsky | 1 | ||||||
| Alexandr Savelev | 1 | ||||||
| Anton Zaharov | 1 | ||||||
| Artyem Shabanov | 1 | ||||||
| Danil Machkarin | 1 | ||||||
| Evgeny Pakhomov | 1 | ||||||
| Artyem Nekorkin | 1 | ||||||
| Sega Lapshin | seroff | 1 | |||||
| Kirill Loginov | 1 | ||||||
| Igor Cherny | 1 | ||||||
| Anton Petrov | 1 | ||||||
| Alexander Medvedev | 1 | ||||||
| Nikita Maximov | 1 | ||||||
| Mikhail Molodkin | VENOMDASTER | 1 | |||||
| Danil Kubasov | DOCrip | 1 | |||||
| Mark Shinkarev | mark174 | 1 | |||||
| Anatoly Orlov | KOT200sx | 1 | |||||
| Andrey Kadyshev | 1 | ||||||
| Dmitry Gusarov | 1 | ||||||
| Alexey Soldatov | 1 | ||||||
| Egor Egorov | 1 | ||||||
| Vladimir Badagov | 1 | ||||||
| Vadim Kiselyov | 1 | ||||||
| Kirill Solomatin | 1 | ||||||
| Alexander Andreev | 1 | ||||||
| Vladislav Puito | 1 | ||||||
| Alexander Shavyrin | 1 | ||||||
| Ruslan Murtuzaliev | 1 | ||||||
| Nikita Veretelnik | 1 | ||||||
| Semyon Vasiliev | 1 | ||||||
| Vladislav Batalov | 1 | ||||||
| Ivan Pavlov | 1 | ||||||
| Vitaly Polyakov | 1 | ||||||
| Evgeny Kapustin | 1 | ||||||
| Reinis Frīdbergs | Drifting | NEZ Drift Championship, LDC | Unknown | 1 2 3 | |||
| Name | Main discipline(s) | Championships | Achievements | DriverDB | Active years in LFS | LFSW username | Source |
Guidelines for consistent research and editing the table
- Make sure to research and prove the fact of them playing LFS as precisely as you can, based on sources. Sometimes it's a reliable source like an article with an interview with the driver, sometimes it's them signing up to some kind of a LFS league, sometimes it's just a mention of them having played LFS on the LFS forums, Discord, server chat, but stated by someone else. Find sources and include them in the "Source" field as links.
- The table does not aim to include a complete or up-to-date real-life racing record for a driver. For that, you can see other websites, mainly the driver's article on the English Wikipedia, which is usually much more diverse and gives more precise overview. Therefore, in this table, include only the major championships and results (more on that below at Field descriptions).
- In general, try to avoid making the rows higher than default, by avoiding overfilling the rows with information. For specific fields and their guidelines, see below:
- Fields:
- Name: driver's full name. If possible, link to their English Wikipedia articles, with the
{{plain link}}template, like this:{{plain link|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lind|Dennis Lind}}. Those articles usually contain helpful racing record tables, based on which you can find information for columns Championships and Achievements (see below). - Main discipline(s): main disciplines they engage in. Maximum of three. Examples include Formula racing, GT racing, Drifting, Truck racing, Touring car racing, Rally, Rallycross, Karting.
- Championships: notable and well-known championships they participated in, regardless of any results. Aim to mention championship names in full, but make sure you don't mention every single one. If needed to conserve width, only then abbreviate.
- Achievements: mainly major championship titles and podiums in final standings (e.g. no individual round results / wins / podiums). Try to aim for a format like this:
1st: ETRC (2004, 2006), 3rd: F1 (2015). If there are none, mention a few race wins in their championship of the highest prestige, in a compact manner. For this field, do abbreviate championships at all times, as seen in the example. - DriverDB: link to the driver's DriverDB profile, if present. When multiple drivers are found under the same name, make sure you do further research to pinpoint and link the correct one here, in default MediaWiki link syntax, like this:
[https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/norbert-kiss DriverDB]. If the driver is not on DriverDB but on another database website (for example WorldSBK, eWRC), you can link that instead. - Active years in LFS: interval(s), if known. For this, you can look at their LFS profile and their LFSW race history. Usually, the "join date" on profile page is quite a trusted source of indication when they started playing LFS actively. Even though the "Last online" field shows any kind of online connection to any game server (without a finished race), you can freely take that as the active interval(s)' final end year. Do not regard "Last activity", found on the LFS website profile, as an active period, since it also shows if they logged in the LFS website (that does not mean they actually played LFS, maybe just checked forums). Verify yearly intervals by looking through the LFSW race history for the driver (click through months - every day marked in bold had an online race finished by the driver). Think of years as inclusive (so if they had a single online race or activity in year 2015, include that year). If there is an online source for this (for example in an article which concluded an interview with the driver), that source is given priority. Make sure to link sources for this in the "Source" field in the table.
- LFSW username: if known. Use the
{{LFSW stats link|username}}template. Arguably the most reliable sources for this: signup entries to major LFS championships and leagues, made by the driver, as these signups usually require real names. You can also find these in LFS championship entry lists, race reports, season conclusion reports, final standings etc. Make sure to link proof and sources for this in the "Source" field. If not known, use template{{Unknown}}. - Source: links to the sources for facts stated in LFS-related fields and specifically proving they played LFS. Include any kind of source, even if its just a single mention of another member of the LFS community, stating that the driver in question plays or has played LFS. LFS forum threads, specific posts, and any kind of more robust, external news articles if found. Use the default link syntax for MediaWiki, and in case of multiple sources for a driver, increment the source number just to distinguish them:
[https://www.google.com 1].
- Name: driver's full name. If possible, link to their English Wikipedia articles, with the
