Bitcoin Car-driving Crypto Fan Beats NASCAR Champ in e-Sports Showdown

A Bitcoin (BTC) aficionado has pulled off a famous cryptocurrency-related e-sports first – by beating a pro-NASCAR driver in a racing game.

Bryan Cook, who goes by the name of Boris on Twitter, won his virtual NASCAR race in a car emblazoned with Bitcoin logos, beating pro driver Kyle Busch, the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion – in front of an online audience of 50,000 viewers.

Cook’s accomplishment was made on the iRacing platform, a virtual racing simulator whose operators say it can accommodate over 140,000 gamers (also known as sim racers) across the world.

With the coronavirus pandemic putting the brakes on real-life racing, pro drivers such as Busch, as well as fellow NASCAR stars Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Denny Hamlin, took part in the contest. The real-life pro racers have been trying their hands at gaming in a bid to keep the sport going while North America continues to lockdown.

Cook wrote, in a Reddit post,

“I won in the virtual…