Can A Sim Racer Become A Real World Racer? | Game To Glory: Level Up

[@DannyGiusa]

I know Sebi for years, that this dream finally comes true for him, is unbelievable. There aren't many drivers I met in motorsports nor simracing that are this talented, humble and focused. If anyone should get the chance, it is him.

[@Sim-2-Reality]

so cool, so happy for him!

[@reanult457]

Is his dream driving in F1?

[@SeanH1984]

Thanks for destroying the ending. I was looking forward to the whole “will he, won’t he” 😂😂😂

[@TheDerperado]

​@@reanult457I'd guess that F1 is the dream of every circuit racer.

[@jarnoopmeer]

Banger

[@albinhellberglundin3323]

please tell me youre next

[@medvedarci]

@@albinhellberglundin3323 Jarno would completely destroy any competition

[@fretlessfender]

Get in there Jarno!

[@10acious32]

When’s your turn big guy?

[@unsafeatanyspeed5471]

​@sezniteowl5398 incorrect. He has switched to Red Bull Esports

[@dirkschoutenracing]

This is just awesome. The 992 GT3 Cup car is one of the most difficult cars to drive. Sebastian seems like a proper dude with great talent! Wish him all the best for the future.

[@ParrotTheBird]

agreed driving the car on acc or iracing is very hard you gotta be on point during the braking to not lock up. and you know more than me since you literally drive it in real life 😂

[@steveclaeysgoesracing]

For sure Dirk. Lot of talent in simracing, but being fast does not get you in a car. :-)

[@kamiun6279]

actually not the gt3 have enorm downforce grip almost to easy.

[@steveclaeysgoesracing]

@@kamiun6279 Seb was driving the cup car, not the GT3

[@weaszy_21]

​Dont they have abs or so​@@ParrotTheBird

[@Jardier]

One of the best current esport drivers, so happy for Seb! LETS GO! I totally love that from my own experience, sim drivers can really quickly get to certain pace, which is insane:)

[@anticommoncore4065]

I agree! The hand/eye/foot and muscle memory are there, just the physical abuse of the g forces as the speeds increase would be the only limiting factor. And to be VERY daring. You're not sliding off track and hitting pixel walls.

[@RomainMONTI]

Well done RedBull for making this possible ! Good luck Sebastian !

[@CosmicWheat]

I love how sim racing drivers are getting more support from the big teams, lets go!

[@TheDerperado]

It makes sense to give a shot to sim racers since they can easily adapt to real-life racing. Biggest benefit for teams is the sheer amount of sim racers out there. While having a career in motorsports is pretty much impossible if you don't have rich parents, you can start sim racing for under 500$. This means that more talented people can have a shot to prove their skills.

[@SuellioAlmeida]

Yeah I think this works! 😅 Glad to seeing this kind of motorsports entry become more and more common!

[@nanthilrodriguez]

Congratulations on your championship in Radical!!!! It's only going to get better!!! Looking forward to watching your racing career!

[@PhysicsOperator]

The king of sim to irl congrats on all you have succeeded on so far

[@dAddled00dle]

Hoping to do the same here in South Africa, going into my first season this year from 2000 hours on assetto…I’m scared AF

[@ItsMe-yg4yi]

as a simracer im proud of what some of us has achieved.. these things makes our sport more serious for others..

[@Fanatec_Official]

100%! 👆

[@balintujvari9666]

Cringe

[@ceaserknk6640]

Cringe

[@shaunhutchinson4707]

Stop trying to take credit for other people's achievements lmao they achieved them not you as a collective with them.

[@weirdfan88]

Simracing isn't a sport.

[@TravelGeeq]

These kind of videos is why I love RB. Thanks for putting this together guys.

[@fretlessfender]

Spot on!

[@InZomnia365]

This question has been answered many times, and the answer is unequivocally YES. Talent, devotion, and opportunity is "all" you need. These guys all have talent and devotion, but need opportunities like this to show it. Cool!

[@NickMcMillenGT]

Awesome to see more incredibly talented sim racers earning the chance to prove themselves in real racecars. As someone who shares the journey from gamer to racer, I’m cheering you on every step of the way. Make us proud, Seb. You’ve got this!

[@Fanatec_Official]

We'll cheer him on! 🙌

[@Ponden]

So proud of the team for putting this together and so happy for Sebi to get an opportunity like this! 👏

[@Thatsimracerleo]

As an amateur sim racer, what an absolute dream come true it must be for Seb. So happy to see that something like this is possible.

[@nielsie86]

👀 Jimmy Boradbent 👀 Super Steve GT.. We’ve seen our youtube heroes drop mega stints with amateur amounts of hours behind the wheel so yeah it works..

[@guitarsimon1]

James Baldwin hanging with gold and platinum drivers in Jeddah the other week 👍

[@RealMrBiscuitGaming]

also cant forget Jann Mardenborough

[@triadityahpermana783]

dont forget suellio almeida

[@zainkhan7812]

@@RealMrBiscuitGaming They made a movie 'bout him

[@divinasi0n]

@guitarsimon1 James Baldwin did top level karting for like 5 years...🤨 that's not the best example.

[@tag9047]

Dude, this kid seems really humble and seems to have an excellent work ethic. Hoping the best for him and his racing career!

[@Tchalla0912]

I just started sim racing last year but have a long history of real life motorsports and I'm just hear to say how racing sims blow my mind how they simulate real life driving. What he said in the video confirms what I struggle with in my sim racing which is braking. In real life I judge braking by the g forces and the feeling in the seat as to how much to apply. I never have issues braking IRL. You get some feedback in the sim wheel but I have to rely on visual cues or brake markers more than the actual feeling in your butt in the seat, and g forces of how much to apply. I was already a good driver in real life from years experience of being a hot rod, but sim racing is reinforcing and strengthening things I already was doing by instinct. I had doing trail braking for years before knowing it was an actual term. And what I called "finding traction" was following the race line. This kid is going to be brilliant because he's going to have real world experience in a fraction of the time that real drivers spend years in track days and racing events. And also, competing in races he's going rise quickly because of the countless lobbies he's competed in sims. Because getting a good solo lap time is completely different than a race with others. He already has a developed race craft.

[@Grammyy]

As more and more people take this step i can almost cry, allowing more talent to shine and not being totally closed of will be good for racing as a whole 👍🏼🔥

[@rz5090]

Suelleo Almeida did it, not to formulate one but through coaching Real Racers and Sim Racers was able to buy a Radical and win the Championship his first season!! Anything is possible and I have little doubt that Max’s time in Sim Racing helps him on the track!!

[@SuellioAlmeida]

❤

[@rz5090]

@ dang I misspelled your name!! Would have double checked had I known you would show up here 😂 😂😂😂 Thanks for the Motor Racing checklist, will join the Academy after I get my triples!! Just having fun right now learning tracks!!

[@georgilazarov1644]

Let's go mate! So cool that RBR are posting this, we need more exposure for sim-racing. It improves it for the average folk like me and allows more people to experience motorsport without forking hundreds of thousands!

[@JessGames95]

Proof that sim racers can do well in real life 🥰 it's awesome that seb has been given this opportunity

[@freyafoxmusic]

It’s been proven dozens of times already:) gt academy was first and now redbull ❤being the goat

[@weirdfan88]

Most of them, no. The few who do make it already have talent. They just needed an opportunity.

[@mau9175]

@@weirdfan88 says who? to talk about the collective you need to know them all. you're just envy lol

[@weirdfan88]

@@mau9175 Reality. Racing on a sim and real life is completely different.

[@weirdfan88]

@@mau9175 Reality. Racing on a sim and real life is very different.

[@Speedracer38]

The Porsche cup cars are absolutely bonkers! It's simply lovely how close the GT3 RS (992) is to the full on race car now compared to any previous generation IMO. One of the future videos you guys should do is the sim vs cup car vs 992 GT3 RS! Even doing the video of sim vs cup car would be a blast to watch :D

[@MeltingRubberZ28]

RBR, thank you for doing this series! I'm a noob in sim racing by basically every measure, but it definitely carries over extremely well and this is just further proof. It really helps people that will never be able to race a real variation of the car be able to push to the limit and experience the thrills.

[@ambientauras]

Redbull cooking with this series

[@Sim-2-Reality]

So excited & Happy for Seb on this!! He was a top sim-talent already at the front with us back when he was only 12 or 13, lol! And we all knew he was a special talent. He happen to be a super nice guy as well. It be an amazing dream, if he could be my team-mate in real-life one day. I know he can do this, my very best to him in this journey!

[@NickMcMillenGT]

Just stopping by the comments to say hello Glenn!

[@chepilevski]

I know Seb when he was 12 years old and start smashing our ashes at the time we believed are untouchable 😃 That video brings tears from excitement for him 💪💪

[@RolandOnTheRopes]

What an absolutely mega video, we all knew what a talent Sebastian Job is behind the wheel but to see this level of talent behind the wheel in real life.... YES SIR!

[@durrrant_simracing]

I have been to snetterton on a Porsche only track event and I was expecting that the sim would help on my first real time laps, but I was blown away at how much it helped, I remember saying out loud “WOW” on my second lap.. sim is a fantastic tool end of…

[@motorsportprospects]

This is fantastic! I have featured Sebastian's story in today's Sim Racing Roundup on Motorsport Prospects.

[@R2_D3]

Insane! Those 10 laps were so good!

[@ArjanSchepers]

I’ve driven some league races with him years ago. Very friendly, pretty fast even back then and now to see him like this, it’s awesome. Great stuff.

[@mihaineg5605]

Amazing story and such an awesome opportunity for Seb to showcase his talent.I managed to get my chance to go from virtual to real through Racing Prodigy.I hope more deserving simracers can get opportunities to show the pace that they have in a real race car and create a bridge between virtual and real.

[@scotty6346]

Absolutely brilliant! I cannot believe how fast Seb got up to speed, The 992 isn't the easiest car to master, That kid has talent and a bright future awaiting him as long as he is in the right hands 👍 Also a big thanks to Red bull for setting this up and giving him a real race driver experience with his own coach, Race engineer and proper debriefs in the Truck 👌

[@JurekBogdanowicz]

congrats from Richard Burna Rally player! i felt the same when i tested a real rally evo9 lancer after i drove it on NGP modded RBR. i felt like at home, and Julian Wagner who was instructing me had nothinmg really to do... we spoke about car setup and his season, sometimes he said just "try to avoid this hole next lap" or small details like this. i felt like NGP-RBR taught me 80% of rallying. ofcourse different if i would get to drive a full rally, there are always surprises but if you leave room for mistakes, you also have enough skill to manage situations if you learned it from PC

[@medvedarci]

Imagine the increase in interest of simracing when the first simracer manages to get full time F1 seat. (it may not happen but let's just dream about it)

[@SimRacingNews]

Valtteri Bottas drove A LOT in LFS before starting his junior career (2006-2007). You could say he was a sim racer first.

[@TurtleSodadrives]

This is so sick! As a new amateur sim racer, it's amazing to see and hear that the sim's are comparable to real racing. It is the closest I will ever come to race anything, and having dreamt of racing my whole life, I am content that I at least will be racing something that will emulate the feeling of real racing.

[@justamanchimp]

Great video, I had visions of videos like this like 10 years ago, I knew one day actual F1 teams would be putting sim racers into real cars and making content from it, amazing it's actually happening!!

[@fretlessfender]

This is epic RedBull! Can't wait for next episode!

[@justinmartinez469]

Let’s go I was so hyped to see this! Great job guys!👏🏽

[@edufpf]

This is a masterpiece video and idea! It’s brilliant to see how SIMs are pretty accurate. He’s also an awesome driver, props to him!!

[@p4cks]

what a brilliant series of videos this will be - can't wait for the next

[@SeanSennett]

This is an incredible series guys! Amazing!!!

[@davidramjee]

Kid can drive!!! Also coachable and teachable, so happy for him.

[@SimRacingNews]

This. Is. MADNESS! Congrats Sebastian! It is just excellent to see what Red Bull is doing. I'm also sure that Max has something with that too, despite being on Redline. We all know the answer, and there are a lot of examples that show sim racers can be great in real life too (Giassi, Suellio). Sim racing as a tool to find talent shouldn't be frowned upon.

[@meticulouslytender8921]

I often jump out of my sim rig into my IRL car and realise a lot of what I was doing in the sim was similar to my IRL car. I know it is not the same but sim racing built for me where my car should be on the corner of the touge IRL. Sim may not be real, but it builds racing lines and where the car should be in IRL. This is one of my favorite vids for sim to IRL car control!

[@OzzCyrus]

fantastic to watch. great stuff. Good luck Seb !!

[@jerrymcdall]

I first saw Sebastian on World's Fastest Gamer on Amazon Prime. Great to see he is getting opportunities back in real cars!

[@MahmoodLens]

Redbull team always amazes me with bringing something that a lot of people want to see. keep for the next episodes. Love it. lets goooooo

[@GabrielKSalomon]

Amazing... this is every simracers dream come true and it put a huge smile on my face to see Seb do so well :) Can't wait to see what this will lead to!

[@ChosenDan]

Nice guy, very humble. Calmness is needed to race and he has it in abundance.

[@jad7334]

Really glad I clicked on this vid, I know nothing about racing but still was really interesting.

[@simsfrankie4]

This has been a dream of mine for years to. Im gonna push myself to be one of the best simracers. And maybe become a professional driver myself. Man shout out to Sebastian. Let's go IRacing.

[@ARIE.23]

Give this man a real life seat, ASAP! Letssssss go Sebi!

[@grantlingley1385]

Congratulations! Those were very consistent lap times and fast too!!

[@brrrogers]

HUGE YES TO THIS CONTENT!!! THANK YOU

[@btt327x]

AWESOME series guys! Keep it going!!!

[@guitartube5822]

I will be following this absolutely for sure! Well done Red Bull

[@CoReSimRacing]

If there's one person of all the simracers who should do it, it is Seb. Show 'em! ❤

[@itsmyname_real]

never stop Red Bull only you guys can bring this kind of excitement

[@jabbaaep]

0:32 Seb's old Performance Engineer. Always wondered were he went, nice to see him still with Red Bull Racing

[@braidenrahn2534]

wow thats insane great job, shows sim racing can transfer what a great series

[@MikeDenaldi]

what a Video !! can't wait for the next episode

[@mau9175]

5:13 SENNA is eternal

[@tejaswathbarla9122]

The fact that he didn't loose hope or lift his leg off the throttle after the spinoff and the lockup, that's how you know he's a true racing driver.

[@Rick-qg9ju]

i gotta love whenever i watch one of these kinds of vids and everytime without fail, they throw in an older vet driver saying "this is real life, there's no restart button"

[@abeidiot]

yeah, as if its some insightful quote lol

[@JamesWallis50]

Great talent and a pleasure to work with!

[@anticommoncore4065]

The best example of MERIT based DEI I have ever seen! Good work! Looking forward to seeing you wheel to wheel with Max.

[@johnsnow2022]

I can't wait to get back into sim racing. Currently on hold because of my business & financial ambitions so I am not distracted because I know, once I get back, it's a rabbit hole and one that I will get immersed in fully. Let's not forget, for us guys who're older (will be 50 next year), sim racing offers great mental stimulation needed in later parts of life.

[@thomash6889]

Interesting video! Jarno Opmeer next!!

[@Tweej]

Jarno drove to F4 right?

[@connorestes9814]

@@Tweej yep. but afaik he couldn‘t continue on due to not finding new sponsors, ergo not being able to monetarily afford to continue racing - which to be honest is really sad. Sure the F1 game is as far from a true sim as can be, but Jarno has shown his complete & utter class and ability in many more ways than just F1-E-Sports. I personally think it’s impossible to really claim a driver is 100% F1-Material without a substantial amount of data / experience to factor in, be that in various Junior Formula‘s, Karting Championships, GT racing & whatever categories a driver has competed in… but, that said, I definitely think Jarno was & is an exceptional talent & had / has what it takes to blossom into an elite driver. I just wish he would be given a chance, just one last time, to prove himself.

[@dacoup5955]

A whole new generation of racers will be made from this accessible technology, i have no doubt in the coming years that people will scout talent through the Sim pool, the accessibility will give even those without deep pockets the chance they deserve to perform on the world stage with just a few adjustments ... We're going to be getting some great racing in the future.

[@RobbertMekes]

this series is awesome!

[@maykondutra]

Thats the future!! Thanks Red Bull for that!!!

[@devinmotorsports]

There is often a negative connotation associated with sim racing, as many people believe it is simply a game, rather than a true metric for skill development. It all comes down to your ability to reference and adapt. You’re solely working with inputs in a sim, with very little feeling of the car other than force feedback. This can be both an advantage and hindrance once you are sat in a real race car. The sim is a tool. If you learn how to use it correctly, you’ll be just as fast in real life, if not faster with the proper training.

[@amirhm6459]

Always interesting to watch projects like this since Kazunori Yamauchi make Grand Turismo Academy

[@22Chad_Reed22]

really cool! looking forward for more

[@farmasinema]

I'm rooting for him.

[@CakeSpork]

Holy ahit that's impressive. I came to this video with honestly high expectations, probably too high, and he just comes in and shatters all expectations

[@Dylan-180]

Seems like the kid really deserves this chance, cool to see

[@TheFastLaneFilms]

I love how his coach said. That's so cool to go from sim and do that. the other guys in the back, don't worry you still have a job xD

[@timadriaans]

Awesome content!

[@joelrogers7413]

Great video. Great drive

[@slipstreamautosport]

Fantastic talent and definitely shows that you can transfer from sim to real life

[@simonbuckner3043]

This is Grammy Award-winning possibilities here. Wonderful Pilot

[@vanshlohia13834]

"It's alright mate you still got a job😂" 4:31

[@nicolasluhrs]

in a room of 10 people, 9 want to be this guy

[@everythinggaming7938]

As a simracer, im so happy for him

[@Fanatec_Official]

This is what we've been waiting for! 👆

[@JMsoo]

Many people underestimates todays simulator word from flight to racing, the platform we have can be seen as a game but if you put the hours and with the right tool look were you fan get!

[@SimVRRacing]

That was brilliant, well done mate

[@Tunda2]

Bro has millions behind him. I wish him the best. We have at least two nascar drivers who started on iracing (William Byron and Josh Berry), but not a factory team f1 driver

[@neozone_tfp]

Love James Kellet, brilliant Porsche cup racer

[@SkyGrizzzley]

Half expected this to just be a meme video of Max lmfao

[@ALECDRAY]

Sim racing is opening opportunities for so many

[@Margot_est_douce.]

Your videos always lift me up. Stay as authentic as you are.

[@supersilvers]

More content like this please ❤

[@rynosraceroom66]

Man ! I hope he kills it ! 🤘🏻🏁

[@RistoKappet]

So deserved. He won't struggle with heavy steering loads that's for sure 💪💪

[@ShabirRacingCar]

Can A Sim Racer Become A Real World Racer? Yes GT Academy did it and Jan Mardenborough is one of the drivers who compete in Le Mans

[@XKHRYSTORMXZY7395]

Remarkable. 🏎💨🏁

[@brad.walker.airdrie.realtor]

10 laps with less than 3 tenths spread? Dang! Impressive stuff

[@tomzphone]

I know it's way different, but many years ago, I was into Remote Control car racing, gas powered on street cars. When I showed up to the trace track the first few times I was absolutely terrible, really bad. However, over the next few winter months I spent 100's of hours on a computer simulator. I also had a friend who has been racing RC cars for over 25 years (who has been a champion). He also has been driving the simulator. Within a year I got to his level lap time wise on the sim. There have been time where I beat him. One thing I still couldn't do, is drive 20-30 laps without making a mistake, which my friend could. All of his laps where within 1/2 second, mine not so much. However, the next session on a real RC track, I have improved so much that I was able to keep up with seasoned drivers with 10 years of experience. So yes, a simulator can help. But like I said, this is way different than real race cars, but I believe it does help driving a sim for 1000's of hours.