29 September 2018 10:35 (UTC)
Keep up with Rudy van Buren as he blogs about his September with McLaren
The holidays flew by quickly and it was time to get right back on it with the simulator work.
While I can’t tell you some of the top-secret things I work on in the simulator, I can give you an idea of what a typical day in the UK looks like when I’m on sim duty:
16:00 | Fly to London |
19:00 | Hotel stay |
07:30 | Breakfast |
08:00 | Travel to McLaren HQ |
08:45 | Meet the team |
09:00 | Sim work |
17:00 | Home time |
If it’s a single sim day, and no other commitments in my diary, it could mean I fly home to the Netherlands in the evening and that concludes the trip. What happens more often or not is that it’s a case of going back to the hotel, going through the dinner/relax/sleep ritual and doing the same thing next day before flying home.
However during my last UK trip there were some extra intruders in the McLaren Technology Centre. McLaren’s F1 Esports Series team were over for prep work, and we did some filming together with Lando Norris as well.
We went out for dinner all together so that was good fun. Afterwards we even went to Lando’s place to hang, which inevitably ended up in more sim racing…!
Finally, in mid-September it was the SimRacing Expo. This is an event in Germany most of the European sim racing community attends. It’s the second year I’ve visited and it was great to see people face-to-face again.
Naturally, given that sim racing is an online based, it’s not often that you meet other sim racers. Events like Expo help to put faces to names of people you may have known for years without meeting!
That concludes this month for me, but October is shaping up very nicely with a lot of flight miles and more Pirelli Hot Laps duties. More about that in the next blog!
Konnichiwa…
Rudy.
