HOW TO BE BEST OF THE BEST IN F1 ESPORTS

You could hardly fail to notice on the motorsport landscape the growing presence, and extreme  competitiveness, of sim racing and Esports, boosted in the last 12 months by Covid’s implications for our movements.

Scott Mansell, head of the Driver61 driver development business, and a EuroBOSS champion and former Indy Lights racer, indeed noticed, and did so pre-Covid. So he started creating specific coaching courses for sim racers.

“Driver61 started in the area of sim racing [at] the start of 2020,” he tells Motorsport News. “I already had an idea that a percentage of our audience were sim drivers just from the comments we see on YouTube and inquiries that we would have through the website.

“So it was just a natural progression and it’s a big market in its own right. It was a way for us to take the assets and the knowledge that we had in motorsport and put it into a different area of sim