{"id":5985,"date":"2017-05-05T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:06:42","slug":"mclaren-to-select-its-next-f1-sim-driver-from-gaming-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/mclaren-to-select-its-next-f1-sim-driver-from-gaming-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren to select its next F1 sim-driver from gaming contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/27130854\/669158668.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The McLaren Formula One team is looking to hire a new dedicated simulator driver, and it\u2019s turning to video games for help. McLaren and Logitech announced a contest today called \u201cWorld\u2019s Fastest Gamer,\u201d the winner of which will be offered a one-year contract to work with the F1 team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World&#039;s Fastest Gamer: Explain the Game\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5or4m5JOQM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;McLaren created the contest with help from Darren Cox \u2014 the man behind Nissan\u2019s GT Academy, a similar video game-to-track program&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a pretty sweet gig for being good at sim-racing. The GT Academy series was pretty interesting to watch and with a personal affinity for\u00a0F1 I&#8217;m keen to see how this develops.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/4\/15543864\/mclaren-formula-one-game-contest-driver\">McLaren&#8217;s F1 team is using video games to hire its next sim driver &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The McLaren Formula One team is looking to hire a new dedicated simulator driver, and it\u2019s turning to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}