An online spat between McLaren's Lando Norris and Indianapolis 500 winner Simon Pagenaud has highlighted how seriously drivers are taking their virtual racing during the COVID-19 shutdown.
LONDON - An online spat between McLaren’s Lando Norris and Indianapolis 500 winner Simon Pagenaud has highlighted how seriously drivers are taking their virtual racing during the COVID-19 shutdown.
Norris, winner last weekend of an IndyCar iRacing challenge race on a virtual Circuit of the Americas, clashed with Pagenaud on Saturday against the same field at the Indianapolis Brickyard.The Team Penske driver, who had been heard to say “we take out Lando, let’s do it” on his live stream, later explained he had only meant to help IndyCar driver Oliver Askew to win.
The Formula One driver, who had spent hours perfecting the technique needed to race on an anti-clockwise oval, was clearly still annoyed. “And then because that guy gets a bit salty that a non-IndyCar driver is about to win an Indy race...it just ruins it,” he said.Norris, a passionate gamer with 1.4 million followers on Instagram and tens of thousands following his esports racing, was not the only one to be upset.
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