{"id":4433,"date":"2020-04-24T11:46:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T22:58:24","slug":"virtual-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4433","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hpq9oMLTc-k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens when a global pandemic shuts down F1, Nascar, Indycar and other professional auto racing? The pro racers become internet competitors! Real life F1 stars Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, IndyCar drivers Simon Pagenaud and Felix Rosenqvist, and a bevy of popular professional sim racers and YouTube personalities <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"got together and raced online (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/F1 stars Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, IndyCar drivers Simon Pagenaud and Felix Rosenqvist, and a bevy of popular professional sim racers and YouTube personalities\" target=\"_blank\">got together and raced online<\/a>. There were commentators and the virtual event was every bit as good as an actual live one by most accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before that, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Nascar did the same (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/05\/sports\/autoracing\/coronavirus-nascar-racing-earnhardt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nascar did a similar race earlier<\/a> and was met with good reviews. Like real life, one race event even <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"lead to it's own scandal. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8213671\/NASCAR-star-Kyle-Larson-uses-racial-slur-virtual-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">lead to its own scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8bP6BUlwp4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This raises some really fascinating implications for our post-corona world. With computers and simulators becoming ever better &#8211; as good as real life &#8211; could the likelihood of increasing numbers of pandemics like H1N1 and Covid-19 cause a major shift in real sports? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could real or interrupted seasons be augmented, or even completely replaced, by online competitions? What would this mean for the millions in advertising and promotion that ride on these events? Will <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"giant stadiums (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/moneyinc.com\/most-high-tech-sports-stadiums-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">giant, technology ladened stadiums<\/a> become a thing of the past? And while these online events were friendly, it also brings up the extremely difficult topics of hacking, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"doping (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-sport-doping\/targeted-tests-having-an-impact-in-esports-says-verroken-idUSKCN1RT2D4\" target=\"_blank\">doping<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"cheating (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/cheating-in-esports\/\" target=\"_blank\">cheating<\/a>, and other nefarious activities already plaguing e-Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when a global pandemic shuts down F1, Nascar, Indycar and other professional auto racing? The pro racers become internet competitors! Real life F1 stars Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, IndyCar drivers Simon Pagenaud and Felix Rosenqvist, and a bevy of popular professional sim racers and YouTube personalities got together and raced online. There were commentators and the virtual event was every bit as good as an actual live one by most accounts. Before that, Nascar did a similar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4433\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-19v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}