Last week, the McLaren Formula 1 team launched a new esports competition called Shadow Project. The prize for winning the new racing series will be a spot on McLaren’s esports team, and perhaps even a chance to become a simulator test driver for the F1 team.
Shadow Project will build from McLaren’s World’s Fastest Gamer competition, which was held in 2017. That previous tournament leveraged PC simulators such as iRacing and rFactor 2. This time, gamers can also compete through mobile games like Real Racing 3 and the Xbox One game Forza Motorsport.