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Gamer who drove Vettel’s F1 automobile heading in the right direction for real-world racing
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Gamer who drove Vettel’s F1 automobile heading in the right direction for real-world racing

By Miles Cooper February 12, 2025
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Standing beside Fernando Alonso after being flown to Barcelona for a photoshoot, Sebastian Job was lastly an expert driver – regardless of having by no means pushed a racing automobile.

The English esports gamer had gained a variety of ‘sim’ races – which simulate real-life races – and been signed by former F1 world champion Alonso’s esports group, which later merged with Oracle Crimson Bull Racing.

It’s obligatory for all F1 groups to have an esports division, however Crimson Bull have performed one thing no different has – put a sim racer in an F1 automobile.

“The velocity simply takes over,” mentioned 24-year-old Job in a Crimson Bull movie known as , documenting his journey from esports to real-world racing.

With restricted laps, Job was inside one second of the usual set by ex-F1 driver Patrick Friesacher in Vettel’s 2012 title-winning V8 automobile, and was much more aggressive in a Porsche GT3.

Job is now aiming to race within the Porsche Carrera Cup at programs together with Manufacturers Hatch and Donington Park, after he gained three world titles within the digital model.

“I went into sim racing as a result of I knew I did not have the cash to get into F1, and 11 years later I get to drive an F1 automobile – that is inspiring for folks to see,” he mentioned.

“On the take a look at days, we noticed the true scale of what sim racing can do, so the objective now must be to get me on the grid for the Porsche sequence or an analogous one.”

Joseph Soltysik, Crimson Bull’s head of esports, mentioned: “We would like to see Seb race in actual life, and that imaginative and prescient is shared throughout the broader group.

“We’re looking for a possible and sustainable technique to fund it.”

‘The primary individual to make use of me was Fernando Alonso’

Job grew up in East Grinstead, Sussex, and confirmed expertise in karting at an early age however his mother and father couldn’t afford the subsequent stage of that self-discipline.

“I knew immediately the normal route into motorsport wasn’t going to be doable since you do must have an unbelievably rich household,” he mentioned.

As an alternative, he determined to dedicate himself to sim racing and his mother and father purchased him a set-up value about £200.

“I loved it and I knew I used to be good at it and I needed to pursue it. However on the time just about no-one was doing it as a job,” he mentioned.

“Round 2018, folks began to receives a commission and it lined up properly with me leaving sixth kind. The primary individual to make use of me was truly Fernando Alonso.

“They flew the drivers out to Barcelona, we obtained photos with Alonso, my mum got here and I believe that was across the time my mother and father began to clock it.”

At that age, Job had solely simply handed his driving take a look at and likewise gained a scholarship to race in Components Ford, on actual race tracks for a yr.

However his greatest win got here in 2020 when he gained the Porsche Tag Heuer Esports Supercup, with a prize pot of $50,000 (£40,300).

On the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, esports was within the midst of a increase, with F1 drivers getting concerned and Max Verstappen racing within the match Job gained.

Many F1 drivers compete in esports, and ‘sims’ – quick for simulators – are utilized by groups to mannequin how automobiles will carry out, however sim racers hardly ever develop into race drivers.

Jann Mardenborough’s impressed the 2023 movie Gran Turismo, starring Orlando Bloom.

No esports driver has gone on to compete in F1 – but.

Sim racing extra accessible – HornerGamer who drove Vettel’s F1 automobile heading in the right direction for real-world racing

The price of reaching the F1 grid runs into the thousands and thousands, and plenty of drivers are the sons of multi-millionaires, or males who competed at a excessive stage in motorsport and might entice sponsorship.

Job believes sooner or later sim racing will open the door for an F1 champion that may in any other case not get that chance.

“There is not any doubt in my thoughts, I do not understand how quickly, however essentially the most gifted folks, we in all probability do not even know who they’re as a result of they can not afford to race,” he mentioned.

Crimson Bull group principal Christian Horner agrees that sim racing may make motor racing extra accessible to younger drivers.

“This problem is to see how carefully does the digital world relate to the actual world, that’s the query to be answered – that’s what that is all about,” he mentioned within the Recreation to Glory documentary.

“I believe sim racing may finally create a broader pool of expertise for the youthful drivers as a result of it is far more accessible. Motor racing is pricey whereas sim racing is a less expensive model.”

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