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What happens when you take the best sim racer in the world and put him behind the cock pit of a real race car?

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December 1st, 2010 (Charlotte NC)-

Sim racers call them aliens; they're the guys out there tearing it up on the virtual racetrack with seemingly otherworldly skills. They call Gregger Huttu "the world's fastest alien." In the real world, Gregger Huttu doesn't even have a driver's license.

In an unprecedented partnership with iRacing.com and Top Gear magazine, 3 Wide Life set out to make a documentary to answer the question virtual racers have been asking for years: do virtual skills translate to the real race track? Having dominated nearly every corner of the iRacing.com universe, Huttu makes the perfect test subject, so the 30 year-old from Vassa, Finland was flown over to the United States for the first time to Atlanta, Georgia for real laps in a real race car.

The World's Fastest Alien kicks off with the history and origins of sim racing and how a chance meeting between legendary sim race creator Dave Kaemer and Boston Red Sox owner John Henry led to the creation of the world's most respected virtual provider, iRacing.com. 3WL caught up with Kaemer and Huttu at the Skip Barber Racing World to get the low-down on Gregger's trip to the states.

Following his seat time at Skip Barber, Gregger was thrown into his first real challenge: testing a formula Mazda car with Anderson Racing. As always, 3WL was there to catch every bit of the action as Gregger learned the ins and outs, the ups and downs, of driving an actual race car.

"We weren't going to fake it," says iRacing executive producer Steve Myers. "This was a real experiment we've wanted to do for years. Now that we've finally been able to make it happen, I'm confident the results speak for themselves."

This documentary will be featured as a special presentation of 3 Wide Life during this week's regularly scheduled program time. This is the first in a series of documentaries 3 Wide Life plans to produce for the upcoming season of the show. For those unable to catch the show on TV, the film will be hosted at 3widelife.com




About 3 Wide Life

3 Wide Life is a nationally syndicated motorsports program focusing on the "real" side of racing. A behind the scenes look at everything from NASCAR, IRL and NHRA, to the grassroots series that make up the foundation of the industry, 3 Wide Life not only targets the hard-core race fan, but entertains and educates new viewers about the technology and individuals that make the green flag drop from week to week.

"The series was created and is produced by Charlotte-based motorsports agency LVRG Marketing & Media with production services provided by Communication Corporation of America. "

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