{"id":2467,"date":"2019-11-20T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:54:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:54:06","slug":"worlds-fastest-gamer-gets-official-mclaren-simulator-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Fastest Gamer gets official McLaren simulator role!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutchman Rudy van Buren beat 30,000 fellow gamers to win McLaren&#8217;s ground breaking eSports competition and become the team&#8217;s official simulator driver.<\/p>\n<p>After numerous heats which began last May across a variety of different games and platforms, 12 grand finalists were invited to McLaren\u2019s Woking headquarters to go head-to-head in one last week of testing.<\/p>\n<p>Finals Week included rigorous tests around a wide selection of racetracks which included the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Suzuka Circuit, Interlagos and Le Mans, where finalists were tested over a full day-long race distance.<\/p>\n<p>The twelve contestants were pared down from six to three, and then finally two: 25-year-old Rudy van Buren, a sales manager from Lelystad in the Netherlands, and Freek Schothorst, a 20-year-old science and business student from Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>It was a close contest but van Buren prevailed against his countryman in the final round of the contest after a demanding four-hour session in McLaren&#8217;s state-of-the-art F1 simulator<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eSports &#8216;could be new way into real-life motorsport&#8217; &#8211; Chandhok\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;First, my congratulations to Rudy \u2013 he really showed the mettle, determination and ability to succeed,&#8221; said McLaren executive Zak Brown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was an outstandingly tough contest, one where we went to great lengths to stretch our contestants beyond their limits, and he\u2019ll be a real asset to the organisation as we develop and refine our 2018 car throughout the next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a dream come true achievement for van Buren and a second chance in motorsport for the gamer who won the Dutch Karting Championship back in 2003, only to abandon his racing ambitions as a teenager due to a lack of financial backing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been the most incredible experience and words can\u2019t describe how I feel right now,&#8221; said van Buren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To think that I came to the McLaren Technology Centre for the very first time last week but am leaving here today as McLaren\u2019s newest employee is mind blowing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t thank everyone enough for giving me this amazing opportunity; just being here, meeting the team and competing with some amazing people has been an unforgettable experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It really has been the toughest job interview I\u2019ve ever faced, but with such an incredible reward at the end of it. Now I can\u2019t wait to get started!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every boy that starts karting dreams about F1, and at a certain point that dream just vanishes. Now by winning World\u2019s Fastest Gamer, I can relive that dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the short video from the World Fastest Gamer final.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gallery: The beautiful wives and girlfriends of F1 drivers<\/p>\n<p><em>Keep up to date with all the F1 news via <\/em><em>Facebook<\/em><em> and <\/em><em>Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutchman Rudy van Buren beat 30,000 fellow gamers to win McLaren&#8217;s ground breaking eSports competition and become the team&#8217;s official simulator driver. After numerous heats which began last May across a variety of different games and platforms, 12 grand finalists were invited to McLaren\u2019s Woking headquarters to go head-to-head in one last week of testing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}