![]() It’s well known racing drivers practice on their team’s simulator, and preparing for a sim race is no different. ![]() In many respects they do what a real world racing driver does. What does a professional sim racer actually do? ![]() It’s not just money that’s handed out as prizes, for example the MotoGP Esport series has regularly given out a BMW M car as a winner’s prize, and this year it’s a BMW M235i xDrive Gran Coupé. This year the Le Mans Esports Series has a $200,000 prize fund, albeit split into three separate funds for different sections of the series. The highest paying include the eNASCAR championship on iRacing which has a $300,000 prize pot, tripling last year’s figure. Last year’s winner, James Baldwin, was awarded a drive with the Jenson Team Rocket RJN McLaren squad co-owned by Jenson Button in the 2020 GT World Challenge Endurance Championship. The GT World Tour on Gran Turismo Sport is the first FIA sanctioned Esports competition and winners are invited to the end of year FIA prizegiving ceremony.Īrguably the creme de la creme of Esports competitions is the World’s Fastest Gamer, which last year ran competitions on a variety of racing games to get the fastest gamer on each game and then pitted them against one another. ![]() The Le Mans Esports Series has a Super Final that takes place on the weekend of the Le Mans 24 Hours itself, and is held on the Forza Motorsport game franchise.
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