F1 driver entertains from home but race lacks the sport’s biggest names as people look to fill time with season suspended
Formula One successfully ran its first virtual GP on Sunday with the Bahrain Grand Prix won by Renault’s Chinese test driver Guanyu Zhou. The esport event created to fill the void left by the opening seven meetings of the season being called off was a qualified success. It worked, albeit with technical issues but the driver lineup was far from the representative of the real grid, with current F1 drivers decidedly thin on the ground.
F1 had hoped to involve as many current drivers as possible but of the 2020 grid only McLaren’s Lando Norris, a keen gamer, and Williams’s Nicholas Latifi were racing. Latifi in his rookie season, has yet to actually compete in a real F1 race.
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Written by Giles Richards
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/22/virtual-f1-experiment-race-lando-norris under the title “Virtual F1 and Lando Norris provide light relief in testing times”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
