The Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team has revealed its new driver line-up ahead of the 2026 season.
Existing factory drivers Joshua Rogers, Charlie Collins and Dayne Warren will be joined by Alejandro Sánchez Belloso for another thrilling season of Esports competition.
The 25-year-old Spaniard was a mid-season tournament winner in the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup by iRacing.
Hailing from Madrid, Sánchez was previously a member of Apex Racing Team, and took multiple podiums alongside his mid-season tournament victory in the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup by iRacing.
He was winner of the 2024/25 Racing Unleashed season opener and went on to take multiple victories throughout the championship.
Sánchez has raced in the FIA F4 Esports Global Championship, the PRL iRacing Radical SR8 Cup, and iRacing’s Indianapolis 6 Hours, and also offers coaching to other sim racers.
He is highly competitive, with aggressive but calculated racecraft, and has strong qualifying pace. His skills span GT cars, formula-style machinery, and various iRacing categories.
As a respected member of the international sim-racing community, Sánchez is considered one of Spain’s top sim-racers.
He made his debut for the team as the 2025 season concluded for the Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team on Sunday.
Sánchez and team-mate Xander Reed became the IMSA Esports GTD Champions on Sunday after a fantastic season, winning the season finale race at Daytona to clinch the title.
In the GTP class, Mitchell deJong and Rogers were second in the final race and finished third in the standings.
New Porsche juniors Flynt Schuring and Marcus Amand – who are just as talented in sim racing as they are in asphalt motorsport – also competed in the final.
With a Michelin Wildcard, they celebrated their debut as new Porsche Junior drivers in Esports. They raced in the Porsche 963, sporting its famous IMSA livery to support the factory team.
The pair visited the Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team’s new home, the Porsche Esports Performance Centre, in November as part of the Porsche Junior shootout event.
The 12 drivers visited the state-of-the-art facilities for the first stage of the Junior selection process to undergo medical checks, which assessed their physical fitness, reaction speed and ability to concentrate.
Through comprehensive interviews, some of which took place in front of a TV camera, the judges also gained an impression of the participants' basic character traits.
Extensive sim racing sessions rounded off the day: Preparation in the simulator has long been a mandatory task for professional racing drivers.
From Cologne, the group headed to Portugal for on-track testing at Circuito Estoril, before Amand and Schuring emerged as the two winners.
The Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team moved to its new headquarters in Cologne in May.
The team’s new home is at the Trilux Light Campus is home to Trilux, Germany’s market leader in professional lighting solutions, and a long-standing partner of Porsche Motorsport.
Opened in 2019, the 2,700-square-metre, four-storey building houses around 120 employees. It features a modern showroom that enables visitors to experience the full spectrum of future lighting trends today.
The centre, which opened on May 9, marks the team’s relocation from Gronau to Cologne-Ossendorf - even closer to the home of Porsche Motorsport in Weissach.
The new multifunctional facility features six professional racing simulators and an adjoining workstation for the team's racing engineers over more than 320 m2, and has state-of-the-art facilities to help further develop the factory outfit.
The Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team’s achievements in 2025 included a fourth-place finish in the Rennsport R1 championship, culminating in the Esports World Cup finale in Riyadh.
The team topped the points standings in the spring season, but sadly were eliminated early from the finals in Saudi Arabia despite a fierce battle.
Even without progressing through to the final though, the teams still gained a lot of experience and will come back stronger for the next season of Rennsport R1 in 2026.
