Sim Racer Magazine

SIM RACING...
IN THE WIDER WORLD
One thing that has become clearly apparent over the last couple of months is the speed at
which sim racing is now growing. With a variety of racing teams admitting to using sims as
a way to practice, and big named racers getting involved with the development of games,
the genre is definitely growing.
Now though, many big organisations are jumping aboard, putting on a number of
tournaments with large prize pools. Take Red Bull for example, this month we take a look at
their 5G event which will be hosted at the ExCel Centre in London. They’ll be taking a whole
heap of lucky winners from across a number of games on an all expenses paid trip to Tokyo;
the home of Red Bull 5G. Formula E have also got involved as well, with plans of hosting a
tournament in Vegas with a whopping $1,000,000 prize pool.
Now these kind of events aren’t unheard of in the greater gaming