This reminds us of that "child, stop wasting time with the little machine and do something useful" that our parents, grandparents, or closest relatives have ever told us. In this case that child who was hooked on video games all day Get a spectacular job with an official Formula 1 team, be an official simulator driver to McLaren.
But this is not achieved overnight and is that it is a contest created by the firm itself for work with engineers at the McLaren Technology Center and on circuits around the world to develop and improve the machinery actually piloted by Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne.
The event called World's Fastet Gamer, was held for several months to find the fastest gaming driver and the final was won by the very young gamer, Rudy van Buren, 25 years old who managed to defeat all his competitors at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway circuit, circuit chosen for the grand final. In this sense, it is interesting to note that Rudy has a long history related to the world of motoring and that when he was very little, at just 8 years old, he was already driving karts in the Netherlands. In 2003 he won the national championship of his country and at the age of 16 he left the real world to focus on the virtual one.
It is undoubtedly his long experience in the motor world that leads him directly to occupy this position in the McLaren team from next year 2018 and enjoy what is surely the job of his life. Now you will have to deal, work and improve a simulator that they say is spectacularly real.