A2 / The Story
A different road to the grid
Leon Erger, from Wiehl in Germany, never climbed the classic karting ladder. His racecraft was built lap by lap in iRacing, where he worked his way into the top 1% of the world. What most people treat as a game, he treated as training — structured, data-driven, and relentless.
After test days on real circuits confirmed the sim pace carried over — with coaching from Mike David Ortmann, the reigning ADAC GT4 Germany champion — the door opened: a seat with PROsport Racing for the remaining four race weekends of the 2023 season, sharing the #19 Aston Martin Vantage GT4 with Raphael Rennhofer. Nearly everything about that first weekend at the Nürburgring was new — the procedures, the traffic, the pit stops. The lap times weren't: second in Friday practice, 0.021 seconds off the top, a top-three grid slot for race one, and seventh at the flag. Sunday's downpour showed the other side of racing — a spin, contact, P18 — and taught at least as much as Saturday did.
Sector 1
The Sim Years
Thousands of laps in iRacing. Top 1% worldwide — earned with telemetry, discipline, and deliberate practice instead of a karting budget.
Sector 2
First Real Laps
Test days on real circuits, coached by the reigning ADAC GT4 champion. The verdict was clear: the technique built in the simulator transferred straight to the car.
Sector 3
The Debut · 2023
ADAC GT4 Germany, Nürburgring, PROsport Racing. The shared #19 qualified in the top three and finished P7 — a top-10 on debut. Sunday's rain taught the harder lessons.
Sector 4
Today · LE Academy
Coaching sim racers 1:1 — in English or German — with the exact method that carried him from the rig to the ADAC GT4 Germany grid.
On Track
Pit Stop · Driver Change