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Brown: E-Sports is the ultimate grassroots of motorsports
All Formula 1 teams could eventually have their own virtual counterpart, while gaming can become the new grassroots of the sport, McLaren executive director Zak Brown said on Monday. Speaking at an event to promote McLaren's 'World's Fastest Gamer' initiative to recruit a Formula One simulator driver from virtual racing, Brown told reporters the world of e-sports was to be embraced. 'I don’t see how any F1 team can ignore the power of e-sports, the audience, the people it produces. So I’d like to think most F1 teams will do something in some way, shape or form,' he said. 'This is building the grassroots of motorsports,' added the American, who arrived at the team's headquarters...
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