Fun From The First Ever Formula 1® Esports Series Semi-Final

Jenny

October 17, 2017

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock this last week, you’ll have seen the first ever Formula 1® Esports Series Semi-Finals live on f1esports.com, Twitch, Facebook and Sky Sports F1. What an amazing evening it was – we can’t state just how much fun it was watching the best F1 Esports drivers battling it out for a place in the finals on F1™ 2017. If you were unable to watch the semi-finals live, you can catch up on the highlights here:

Watch F1 Esports – 2017 Semi Finals Highlights from F1Esports on www.twitch.tv

You can also check out how it all unfolded on the night with our Twitter Moment:
The #F1Esports Series Semi-Final

We had 40 of the best F1 Esports drivers battling it out in a packed out Gfinty Arena in London, overseen by British comedian and presenter, Tom Deacon, who compered the night. Getting to the semi-finals was an achievement in itself: a total of 63,827 players took part in the qualifying stages, completing 976,870 laps. Over 195,000 race times were posted on the official leaderboards on f1esports.com. Over eight races – four on Interlagos and four on Silverstone – the 40 were whittled down to 20, who’ll be heading to the final in Abu Dhabi.

We cannot tell you just how incredible each race was – such a showcase of talent from the semi-finalists – which was deftly navigated through by an equally fantastic commentary team of Davide Valsecchi, Jack Nicholls, Matt Gallagher and Karun Chandhok.

What a fantastic commentary team we have tonight! ???#F1Esports pic.twitter.com/H3BjJNj5LP

— Formula 1® Game (@Formula1game) October 10, 2017

At the final in Abu Dhabi, the first Formula 1 Esports Series Champion will be crowned on the same weekend as the final 2017 Formula 1 Grand Prix. The winner will be named the Formula 1 Esports Champion Expert for 2018 and will automatically qualify for the semifinals of next year’s F1 Esports Series. The winner is one of these finalists… we can’t wait to see who the first Formula 1 Esports Series Champion will be!

Name	Country	Points
Brendon Leigh	Great Britain	50
Allert Vanderwal	Netherlands	50
Sonuc Saltunc	Great Britain	50
Patrik Holzmann	Germany	50
Sven Zürner	Germany	36
Nicolò Fioroni	Italy	33
Cedric Thome	Germany	33
Cem Bölükbasi	Turkey	33
Fredrik Rasmussen	Denmark	30
Igor Fraga	Brazil	30
Joni Törmälä	Finland	30
Tiziano Brioni	Italy	27
Patryk Krutyj	Poland	25
Gianfranco Giglioli	Italy/Venezuela	25
Alberto Foltran	Italy	22
Mads Soerensen	Denmark	22
Harrison Jacks	Great Britain	21
Fabrizio Donoso Delgado	Chile	18
Salih Saltunc	Great Britain	18
Maximilian Benecke	Germany	14