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Gallery: Snetterton Practice & Qualifying
A damp day for World’s Fastest Gamer winner James Baldwin in the rain at Snetterton for practice and qualifying for the British GT Championship.
World’s Fastest Gamers one and two back in action in real-world racing
World’s Fastest Gamers James Baldwin (Season 2) and Rudy van Buren (Season 1) will be back on track this weekend as Baldwin competes in the penultimate weekend of the British GT Championship and van Buren in the second round of Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland season.
Video: Donington Park behind the scenes
Follow the progress of the World’s Fastest Gamer- James Baldwin. In Round 6 they return to Donington Park for a 3-hour endurance race. Follow all the dramatic behind-the-scenes action here.
Video: Virtual lap of Snetterton
Take a ride around Snetterton with World’s Fastest Gamer winner James Baldwin as he prepares for the next round of the British GT Championship.
Impressive speed from World’s Fastest Gamer aces at Le Mans and Donington
World’s Fastest Gamer winners Rudy van Buren (season 1) and James Baldwin (season 2) showed impressive pace behind the wheel in France and the UK this weekend.
Gallery: Donington – Round 6 – Race Day
Another podium and brilliant pace from World’s Fastest Gamer winner James Baldwin in the second Donington Park round of the British GT Championship.
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: James Baldwin’s 2020 “ride”
Take a look at World’s Fastest Gamer James Baldwin getting his first look at his amazing prize “ride” for 2020 – the Jenson Team Rocket RJN McLaren 720S GT3.
Video: Juan Pablo Montoya wins Miami’s Fastest Gamer
Racing legend Juan Pablo Montoya charged to victory in the first Miami’s Fastest Gamer competition – he beat the racers, the next generation of stars plus the esports racing community to take the crown.
Video: Ep2 – Behind the scenes with WFG
Episode 2 of ‘Behind the Scenes of WFG’ (World’s Fastest Gamer) – stars of the top racing games and simulators get a chance to try out some real race cars.
Video: Ep1 – Behind the scenes with WFG
Episode 1 of ‘Behind the Scenes of WFG’ (World’s Fastest Gamer) – Matt @Sadokist Trivett shows us around Las Vegas Speedway and meets the gamers and judges.
Video Preview: Behind the scenes with WFG
The innovative World’s Fastest Gamer #GamerToRacer competition today launches a behind-the-scenes YouTube series with leading motorsport and gaming channel, Lets Go Racing.
Video: World’s Fastest Gamer finale tour recap
An incredible 12 days on our World’s Fastest Gamer tour – amazing race tracks and impressive gamers chasing their dream to become a real-world race driver.
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.