The Mercedes-AMG Petronas Esports Team
The Mercedes-AMG Petronas Esports Team is the esports team of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team.
Based on the premises of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, Brackley, a purpose-built esports training centre provides the team’s gamers with world class facilities and state-of-the-art equipment from our Esports partners, to develop their skills, train and compete. Being integrated into the Driver-in-Loop Simulator department, where F1 development drivers provide feedback to engineers on a virtual model of the car, the esports programme will benefit from transferable elements pertinent to optimising car set-up and honing race craft.
2020 has already seen the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Esports Team esports drivers Brendon Leigh and Bono Huis team up with F1 drivers Valtteri Bottas, Esteban Gutierrez, Anthony Davidson; Formula E drivers Stoffel Vandoorne and Nyck de Vries in order to race, win and entertain fans around the world in F1’s Virtual GP and Pro Exhibition Series; Torque Esports “The Race” All Star Series and the Formula E Unicef Race at Home Challenge.
