Le Mans Ultimate Release Time Confirmed

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With its Early Access release on February 20 around the corner, the Le Mans Ultimate release time has been confirmed. Here’s when you can get your hands on the official WEC game.

Image credit: Studio 397 / Motorsport Games

Endurance racing fans are eagerly awaiting the release of Le Mans Ultimate. The official WEC game features all cars and tracks of the championship’s 2023 season and is set to launch on February 20, although in an Early Access state rather than the full release as it was initially planned.


Nonetheless, being based on rFactor 2 and bringing a complete grid of Hypercars as first-party content for the first time in sim racing, LMU is high on the list of most exciting releases in 2024 for many. A day before launch, the Le Mans Ultimate release time has been confirmed on the game’s official Twitter account.

Check the list below for the Le Mans Ultimate release time in your part of the world via a representative city. All 2024 WEC locations are also included.

Le Mans Ultimate Release Times​

  • Los Angeles: 4 am
  • Austin: 6 am
  • New York: 7 am
  • Sao Paulo: 9 am
  • London: 12 pm
  • Le Mans: 1 pm
  • Spa-Francorchamps: 1 pm
  • Imola: 1 pm
  • Manama (Bahrain): 4 pm
  • Doha (Qatar): 4 pm
  • New Delhi: 5:30 pm
  • Fuji: 9 pm
  • Sydney: 11 pm
  • Auckland: 1 am (Wendesday)


Put more universally, this list translates to a launch time of 12 pm UTC, which also aligns with the approximate unlock time that the game’s Steam page gives. In fact, it had changed from “approximately 1 day” to “23 hours” even before the official announcement had been made.

To give another preview, Studio 397 and Motorsport Games have released another gameplay video. This time, it shows the POV of the #7 Toyota GR010 hybrid carving its way through lapped traffic at Fuji, trying to make up for time lost at the start. The video provides a glimpse of how the AI handles multi-class racing, which should be very interesting to singleplayer sim racers.


Are you looking forward to Le Mans Ultimate on release or are you holding off for a while? Let us know on Twitter @OverTake_gg or in the comments below!
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You have succeeded in exposing me as a dumbass. I commend you.

You just have been the guy who asked:). All well! :)

On the map all 8 locations of the 2024 season are covered. A clear hint for what will come up in the future (my guess).
 
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It looks like an exceptionally well-designed mod for RF2... just a mod, not a new sim racing game! The latest video showcases the same interpretation of RF2 but with enhanced graphics. What more can be done to improve in this genre and game? Still RF2 can do it, so why to pay +$59 for a mod!
Remember when GTR2 and AMS1 was considered rf1 "mods" ? Heck, ams2 is still considered an copy paste from pcars2, and no, all the statements i just said is not true. Lets give LMU some oportunity.
 
It looks like an exceptionally well-designed mod for RF2... just a mod, not a new sim racing game! The latest video showcases the same interpretation of RF2 but with enhanced graphics. What more can be done to improve in this genre and game? Still RF2 can do it, so why to pay +$59 for a mod!
That counts for so many games. They have the same base engine and produce mostly new content. The F1 games are a good example.
There, most track content gets a small update every year. As in more detailed models of the same stuff. Some updates here and there.

Having 2000+ hrs on rF2 and owning most DLC's, and every other great racing game (with almost all it's DLC's. (even the F1 series, admit with discount).
So don't mind to fork out a bit of cash for something i would enjoy a few evenings.
To keep our beloved simstudio's alive. ;)
Without them our much more expensive hardware is useless.

Can't wait to see what the S397 boys been cooking up for us.
They have some really good and fully dedicated people working their asses off every day.
I really hope it pays off for them this time.
 
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The idea of making series specific games on an established sim-engine (not unreal) is a good one, If a company more legit then MSG were behind this initiative it may have worked out better.
 
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Why not buy at launch with half the price? then play it when VR is added
Come to my restaurant, Buy the steak meal. It doesn't come with steak, but its reduced, and in a couple weeks, we have some steak!

well, Maybe we have some steak

We need to sell a heap of these steak meals so we can buy the steak, but first we need to pay our staff, outgoings, take some as profit, put some aside for tax(or to pay cousin Vinnie the Accountant to undertake tax reduction process) and put fuel in the lambo.

But hey, cheap steak meals!
 
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Come to my restaurant, Buy the steak meal. It doesn't come with steak, but its reduced, and in a couple weeks, we have some steak!

well, Maybe we have some steak

We need to sell a heap of these steak meals so we can buy the steak, but first we need to pay our staff, outgoings, take some as profit, put some aside for tax(or to pay cousin Vinnie the Accountant to undertake tax reduction process) and put fuel in the lambo.

But hey, cheap steak meals!
That meal is finished in half an hour, 2 hrs. later i'm hungry again.
Probably have a mild hangover from the cheap wine that came with.
If this game last a few weeks longer, im satisfied.
 

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