The coronavirus has indeed done a lot of things to our world. It has silenced and filled the whole world with fear. Places are locked down, and all kinds of events are cancelled, including sports events.
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Since pro racers right now cannot hit the road in the real world because of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, they decided to hit the road in the virtual world by competing with gamers through online sim racing competitions. What does this mean, then?
The first few of these substitute sim races, held last weekend, were successful in ways that surprised even the organizers. Now, many of the people who put them on have spent the intervening week trying to figure out how to use that momentum to fill the gap left by real world racing, as fans around the world hole up at home in a collective attempt to slow the spread of a global virus.
It likely won’t be that difficult, though. The success of these first few replacement races was a testament to how far sim racing has come during the rise of esports (and the era of Twitch), but it also sheds light on a truth that a lot of motorsports fans have become familiar with: that a new age of competitive, virtual motorsports is already upon us.
What happened at the virtual race? Find out over at The Verge.
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Source: neatorama