{"id":122325,"date":"2017-11-27T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122325"},"modified":"2017-11-27T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:03:54","slug":"the-best-virtual-racing-driver-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/122325-the-best-virtual-racing-driver-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"The best virtual racing driver in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mclaren.com\/formula1\/2017\/worlds-fastest-gamer\/rudy-van-buren-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rudy van Buren<\/strong><\/a>, a 25-year-old sales manager from the Netherlands, has beaten over 30,000 contestants to be crowned the World\u2019s Fastest Gamer.<\/p>\n<p>The World\u2019s Fastest Gamer is the McLaren Formula 1 team\u2019s esports competition that aims to find the best virtual racing driver on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>In the final round of the contest \u2013 a four-hour assessment using McLaren\u2019s Formula 1 simulator \u2013 Van Buren beat countryman Freek Schothorst.<\/p>\n<p>Van Buren now claims \u201cthe greatest job in esports\u201d \u2013 becoming one of the F1 team\u2019s official simulator drivers for the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<p>Van Buren began racing karts at 8, winning the Dutch Karting Championship in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>He was forced to quit at 16 due to a lack of financial backing.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, G2 Esports has partnered with Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso to create the esports team FA Racing.<\/p>\n<p>FA Racing has partnered with Logitech and aims to create the \u201cnext generation of competitive esport racing teams\u201d.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/237890-how-much-money-gamers-spend-on-microtransactions.html\">How much money gamers spend on microtransactions<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy van Buren, a 25-year-old sales manager from the Netherlands, has beaten over 30,000 contestants to be crowned the World\u2019s Fastest Gamer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":104131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[25415,25411,25413,10622],"class_list":["post-122325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-fa-racing","tag-formula-1","tag-mclaren","tag-simulator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}