Why World's Fastest Gamer is returning to real-world racing
World's Fastest Gamer is a spiritual successor to the famous GT Academy. After a successful first year, it's returning to the Nissan programme's roots by targeting the real world of racing
"We can't deny people their dream, 80% of the people who race online, want to race in real life. So we're going back to our roots, let's go and put them in GT cars."
Those are the words of the president of Millennial Esports Darren Cox following the launch of the second season of World's Fastest Gamer earlier this month. Those 'roots' are GT Academy, which Cox, along with the rest of the core WFG team, started so successfully over a decade ago.
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