![]() ![]() The following year he competed in F1 Esports as a part of the Toro Rosso team. In 2015 he raced in a few races run by Formula SimRacing on rFactor 2 and then two years later, just a couple of months before his race win in F1 Esports, he was in the rFactor 2 final of the first ever running of World’s Fastest Gamer. That was back in June 2014 when the newest F1 game that had been released at that point was F1 2013. He raced in online leagues organised by Apex Online Racing, taking his first top split win in season eight’s race around Monaco in the PC division. While he made a name for himself in 2017 by winning one of the races in the grand final of the inaugural F1 Esports Series and then joining Fernando Alonso’s now-closed FA Racing Esports team – his time racing competitively on games stretches back far before the boom in racing game esports. However, Bolukbasi is the first to have landed a season-long seat in F2 after signing with Charouz Racing System for 2022.Īt the beginning of his career, Bolukbasi trod the familiar path of karting, which he started at seven years old after a couple of years of motocross, and he raced in national and international competitions until 2012 when the money ran out.Īfter being forced to stop he then turned to sim racing. ![]() The 23-year-old isn’t even the first gamer to have made it onto F1’s single-seater support bill as GT Academy winner Jann Mardenborough raced in GP3 (now FIA Formula 3) for two seasons and even had a brief stint in GP2 (now FIA Formula 2) in 2015 with Carlin.
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