World’s Fastest Gamer is the bridge between the virtual and real worlds for gamers, drivers and fans.
World’s Fastest Gamer is the bridge between the virtual and real worlds for gamers, drivers and fans.
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Gallery: Silverstone British GT Qualifying
All the action from qualifying today as James Baldwin and Michael O’Brien put the No.2 Jenson Team Rocket RJN McLaren on the second row of the grid in P4.
Gallery: Silverstone British GT Testing
Check out the shots from Silverstone testing as World’s Fastest Gamer winner James Baldwin prepares for this weekend’s final round with Jenson Team Rocket RJN.
Video: 10 toughest challenges going from sim to real racing
World’s Fastest Gamer winner James Baldwin explains the 10 toughest aspects of real racing he’s faced since moving from the virtual tracks to reality.
Final races of 2020 for World’s Fastest Gamer winners
Both #WFG1 and #WFG2 winners will be contesting their final races of the 2020 season this weekend with season one champ Rudy van Buren tackling Oschersleben in Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland and season two winner James Baldwin competing in British GT at Silverstone.
Gallery: Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland – Round 4
Great work by Rudy van Buren this weekend in Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland at the Lausitzring.
Season-best qualifying in P3. Led first laps in Race 1. Season-best result in P4 in race 2.
Inaugural World’s Fastest Gamer ready for next real-world race
#WFG1 winner Rudy van Buren to contest EuroSpeedway Lausitz for the second time this year Engine Media’s #GamerToRacer program sets up Dutch driver for success #WFG2 winner James Baldwin back on track next week as he celebrates his World’s Fastest Gamer win 12 months...
James Baldwin named World’s Fastest Gamer – earns real-world US$1 million race drive
- British gamer dominates finale in Las Vegas to earn the crown
- Formula 1 legends Juan Pablo Montoya and Rubens Barrichello on site as judges and coaches
- Baldwin set to begin intensive driver development program.
After a dominating performance in the final race in Las Vegas today, British racer James Baldwin has been crowned as World’s Fastest Gamer.
World’s Fastest Gamer season two launches biggest ever prize in esports racing
- Winner to race for real at the most iconic circuits in the world
- F1 and Indy 500 winner Juan-Pablo Montoya to lead judging panel
- WFG season one TV show reached 400 Million households
World’s Fastest Gamer season two brings together ten of the fastest esports racers on the planet to battle it out to win a year racing for real at some of the world’s most iconic circuits aboard Aston Martins.
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Video: Virtual lap of Brands Hatch
Strap in with World’s Fastest Gamer winner James Baldwin as he does some virtual laps at Brands Hatch in preparation for round five of the British GT Championship.
Video: Behind the scenes – Donington Park
Come and join World’s Fastest Gamer winner James Baldwin and go behind the scenes at Donington Park where the former gamer earned his first British GT Championship pole position.
Video: Virtual to Reality – Donington Park
Jump in and enjoy the ride around Donington Park with World’s Fastest Gamer winner and British GT Championship ace James Baldwin – both in real life and virtually aboard his Jenson Team Rocket RJN McLaren.
Video: Donington Park Pole Position
James Baldwin reports in after the remarkable pole position by he and Michael O’Brien for round three of the British GT Championship at Donington Park.
Video: Virtual lap of Donington Park
World’s Fastest Gamer winner and British GT Championship leader James Baldwin takes a virtual lap around Donington Park in preparation for this weekend’s rounds for Jenson Team Rocket RJN with Michael O’Brien.
Video: Behind the scenes – victory on debut
World’s Fastest Gamer winner, James Baldwin made his debut for Jenson Button’s race team, Jenson Team Rocket RJN, in the British GT Championship at Oulton Park and unbelievably took victory in his first ever race – go behind the scenes with The-Race.com to take a look at the remarkable result.
The coaches
JUAN PABLO MONTOYA
Few drivers in motorsport history can match the credentials of 38-year-old Montoya. He is the only driver to win a CART Series title, the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Daytona, all in his first attempt. He is also a former winner of one of the most prestigious races in the world: the Monaco Grand Prix. During his F1 career, Montoya has amassed seven victories and 30 podium finishes in 94 starts, and remains the only foreign-born driver to win multiple races in NASCAR’s premiere series.
RUDY VAN BUREN
Rudy van Buren, a 26-year-old sales manager from the Netherlands, beat more than 30,000 contestants to be crowned the World’s Fastest Gamer in Season 1, becoming one of the McLaren F1 team’s official simulator drivers for the 2018 season. Van Buren began racing karts aged eight, ultimately winning the Dutch Karting Championship in 2003 only to quit at the age of 16 due to a lack of financial backing. Van Buren is now considered one of the greatest simulator racers of his generation.
JANN MARDENBOROUGH
Jann Mardenborough is one of the most successful gamer-to-racer’s of all time after winning GT Academy in 2011. Mardenborough was so fast in British GT in his debut season that GT Academy graduates were barred as competing as amateur-rated drivers. He went on to successful compete in LMP2 sports cars (where he showed massive speed at Le Mans), F3 and GP3 where he won at Hockenheim.
He began racing in Japan for Nissan in 2016 in GT300 and graduated to the GT500 class in 2017.