Meet the F1 racer who streams PUBG, and the esports racer who's now part of an F1 team
Every year, some of the best drivers in the world - champions from F1, the WEC, NASCAR and the WRC other disciplines - get together to work towards the answer of that perennial motorsport fan's pint-fuelled topic: what if you could put every driver in identical machinery? What if you could strip away the technical side of the sport and find out, once and for all, who's the fastest driver of them all?
The Race of Champions is a fairly informal get-together, with a bit of an end-of-term feel to it, but you can't dull a racing driver's competitive edge, and this year's running was no different. Here, reigning Indycar champion Josef Newgarden was competing alongside DTM and sportscar maestro Rene Rast, Le Mans legend Tom Kristensen and such towering former-F1 veterans as David Coulthard and Juan Pablo Montoya. Not a bad field, all in all.
But perhaps the most impressive performance was put in by a relative newcomer - and by someone who, just months before, was still working as kitchen sales manager back in the small city of Lelystad. Rudy van Buren's tale is one that's told countless times in motorsport; a karting champion in his youth, at 16 the money dried up, and with it his dreams of making it in the sport. But then comes a pleasant twist; at 25-years-old, having found rFactor 2 and applied his skills to a different type of racing, he emerged victorious in McLaren's The World's Fastest Gamer competition. The prize? No less than employment as the team's simulator driver - as well as a few other bonuses along the way.
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