The 2024 Team
Entrant name | Team Manager | Drivers | Writer | Character Designer | Livery Designer |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Queens' Design | Aenore Rose | Aenore Rose | Ruby Nekomata | Ruby Nekomata | Aenore Rose |
April Carlsvard | |||||
Mia Rose | |||||
Ruby Nekomata |
Introduction to the Queens' Design /////
The Queens' Design is born out of a desire to bring more diversity in a very visible fashion to esports racing. Our pink cars adorned with our mascot Victoire Laviolette are easily recognizable from far away in any race, and we intend to bring in the results to have them be associated with success thanks to our lineup consisting of two pro drivers, who will be rigorously developing two drivers who were so far denied the chance to get to the next level.
We want to champion radical changes to the esports racing landscape which we believe are long overdue :
- steering the sport to be truly inclusive of everybody as it claims to be by loudly being ourselves and visible at this level of racing, which tends to erase marginalized people while calling out discrimination and offering opportunities to people who usually get sidelined
- building on this first point, we want Queens' Design to be a team who brings in an audience that, so far, esports racing has largely ignored and consciously excluded, mainly but not limited to women, GSRM and BIPOC individuals.
- show that an esports racing team can be sustainable for itself and its members without depending on abusive contracts, unlike what most teams do in interest of personal profit
About Victoire Laviolette /////
French, born on 02/03/1997, she/her
Victoire is the face of Queens’ Design. She is our race queen and chief engineer and is prominently featured on our cars, cheering us on as we race.
The spark that ignited her passion for motorsport was witnessing the driver's parade and the scrutineering held in the center of her home town of Le Mans at the age of 6. This day made her resolve to pursue a career in the engineering side of motorsport, which she managed despite the obstacles women have to face in the sport. Her interest in modelling led her to take a more visible role in the team as its race queen, a role that she hopes to re-popularize after it was stigmatized rather than improved upon and made more inclusive.
Drivers /////
French, born on 26/09/1996, she/xhe/ae
Aenore has been racing since 2015. Starting her esports career in MX5 Cup xhe went on to be a finalist in the ADAC GT Masters, race in eWTCR, in SRO Sprint Europe and won the 2020 SRO Esports America GT4 title for Jean Alesi eSports Academy.
Ae is acting as manager driver and brings her experience from S.56 Design to design the team's liveries.
Married to Mia. ❤️
Aenore Rose #56
Australian, born on 01/05/2001, she/her
Mia has been racing since 2014 after a short dabble in Motocross got her into sim racing. She is an iRacing European Endurance Series LMP2 champion, 949 GT Series champion and Sim Grid Endurance Cup champion and is the first woman to win an SRO Esports race. Her experience in photography will bring the race galleries alive.
Married to Aenore. ❤️
Mia Rose #909
Mexican, born on 28/08/1998, she/her
Ruby has been racing since 2015, starting in Gran Turismo online leagues. She was a top 50 draft prospect for the eNASCAR Pro League 2019 and a finalist for the Logitech G Challenge US 2019.
She designed our team mascot - Victoire, pictured above - and wrote her backstory drawing on her experience as an admin of Racing Heart Universe.
Ruby Nekomata #40
Swedish, born on 18/07/1992, they/she
April has been racing since 2010 in many sims. They have previously competed in Virtual Endurance Championship Division 1, GPVWC, as well as helping with the running of Realish Racing. She currently does physics development on rFactor 2.
April Carlsvard #69
Likes and hobbies:
Racing, Metal music, RPG video games, collecting diecasts, collecting stuffed animals, designing liveries, trains, planes
Dislikes:
Social events, crowds, disorganized source files, conforming
Likes and hobbies:
Motorsport, women, designing liveries, taking photos, cute things, electronic music
Dislikes:
Transphobes, raw coffee, cold weather, classical music
Likes and hobbies:
Writing, shoegaze and jazz music, football, baseball, roleplaying, thigh highs, maid outfits
Dislikes:
Country music, mathematics, soda
Likes and hobbies:
Racing, motorbikes, mountain bikes, road cycling, Rocket League, partying, exercise, maths
Dislikes:
Toxic people who want to drag others down from their peaks