FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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