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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Ultimate #GamerToRacer performances
World’s Fastest Gamer is looking for the next esports racing champ to see if they can make the transition from virtual to reality – gamer to racer! Check out the gamers who have blazed a trail in the past – we’ll have to see if our new winner will match these amazing performances.
World’s Fastest Gamer celebrates 30-day countdown with huge prize giveaways
Esports racing fans have the chance to earn amazing prizes with three World’s Fastest Gamer social media competitions to be held over the next 30 days.
Canadian mobile gamer joins World’s Fastest Gamer competition as Gear.Club winner
Canada’s Riley Gerster becomes the sixth confirmed finalist for this year’s World’s Fastest Gamer competition which will provide the winner with a real-world race seat competing around the world in 2020 in GT sportscar racing.
WFG finalists set for ultimate road trip in California chasing $1m real-world race drive
The winner of this year’s World Fastest Gamer competition will be crowned in California after enjoying the ultimate motorsport road trip where they will experience 12 days that most gamers could only dream of.
Video: World’s Fastest Gamer “California Dreamin'”
The October “California Dreaming” tour will push the gamers through an intensive set of challenges across 12 days to find the candidate considered most capable of making the transition from “gamer to racer.”
Rudy van Buren’s top 5 virtual tracks
Check out inaugural World’s Fastest Gamer winner Rudy van Buren’s top five favorite tracks from racing games.
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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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.