Acer revealed today a collaboration with the Formula One driver Romain Grosjean, R8 G e-Sports Virtual Racing Team. As part of the deal, Acer’s with its premium gaming brand Predator will become an official partner. Robust Predator Orion 5 000 desktops, lightning-fast Predator player monitors and accessories are supplied with sim seats for the R8 G e-Sports Squad. Predator stands for strength and speed with its advanced features such as cooling technology, and it is ideally designed for the benefit of the R8 G team drivers. Acer will in exchange be granted exclusive access to content, drivers, live experiences and branding on a range of team cars from the R8 G e-Sports Virtual Racing Team.
“Launching my own sim racing team is a proud moment because I’m passionate about motorsport, innovation and embracing new challenges. The main goal of the R8G Sim Racing Team is to develop drivers that have the potential to race for real, which is an exciting prospect. We’re proud to have the best-of-the-best gaming gear with Predator onboard to become the best-of-the-best in sim racing as we bridge the gap between the virtual and real racing worlds.” said Romain Grosjean.
An audience of 850 million people is anticipated to accompany in the Sim Racing events in 2020 with the growth of the e- Sports scene. In prestigious sim racing events such as the Le Mans 24h, the R8 G e-Sports Sim Racting Team will participate.
Hajo Blingen, Vice President Marketing, Acer Europe said: “We have chosen to enter the sim racing scene enabling us to connect with new audiences from the virtual racing world, but also from the real racing world. Virtual racing represents a very emotional brand experience and supports us communicating the fascination for gaming technology to a new target group of ever-growing eSports fans. We are excited to support Romain Grosjean to build a world-class sim racing team.”
Predator Orion 5000 has been updated recently by Acer and brings game play to new stages. Intel’s 9th Gen Core i9-9900 K is fitted with a Z390 processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 GPUs, Dragon 2.5 gigabit and a liquefied all-in-one CPU to improve output at intense gaming sessions.
