Formula 1 has recently announced the launch of a new F1 Esports Virtual Grand Prix series, featuring a number of current F1 drivers. The series has been created to enable fans to continue watching Formula 1 races virtually, despite the ongoing COVID-19 situation that has affected this season’s opening race calendar.
The virtual races will run in place of every postponed Grand Prix, starting this weekend with the Virtual Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday March 22. Every subsequent race weekend will see the postponed real-world Formula 1 race replaced with a Virtual Grand Prix, with the initiative currently scheduled to run until May*.
In order to guarantee the participants safety at this time, each driver will join the race remotely, with a host broadcast live from the Gfinity Esports Arena (or remotely if required) from 8:00pm (GMT) on Sunday March 22,
Scuderia Ferrari will be represented by two guys from the Ferrari Driver Academy, who are more used to the real racing tracks: Robert Shwartzman, Russian talent and reigning FIA Formula 3 champion, and Dino Beganovic, Swedish kart star class 2004 who has joined the Ferrari program dedicated to young drivers this season and will debut at the wheel of a single seater in the Italian Formula 4 championship.
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