Sorry about what happened, but you could'nt control it. I hope you can learn to keep your mind in a safe space no matter what happens and always bounce back immediately. I hope you come out of this STRONGER, FASTER & BETTER. See you in the next race Champ!
The high point of the video is when James is saying the control room "it doesn't matter anyway, I can't get the win back we might as well just carry on". Very mature and sensible
Bruh, Marcell had the most points even without the gimmick of finalist mode. James and Daire had a shot at winning only because ESL orchestrated a close championship in the ruleset.
I'm sorry, the 'Ring incident was none of your fault and it's going to take a fucking lot of effort to convince me to the contrary. This was not an oopsie doopsie racing incident. It looked extremely deliberate. I admire your maturity in the control room, they'd have to measure my blood pressure in Richter scale if I were you. You're really, really good at this and I genuinely believe your first major success in a tournament of this scale is just around the corner. You got this.
yeah i'm sorry, teammate made absolutely no effort to get out of his way, if it was on a straight i understand but through a chicane? Not buying it, and that's me being impartial I think
are you shitting me? james tried to defend from the teammate and turned himself the audi. If you look with your eyes and not with what you want the truth to be, you can see that the audi was alongside, left james a car width, which is what is required by the rules, and james misjudged the situation, tried to defend and turned himself on the audi. Also replying to @punchawaterfall6302, the teammate had no obligation to get out of the way on a straight, and even if he did, he wouldnt have enough time to react to james' extremely late defensive move.
I'm not an emotional guy but I would have had tears in my eyes for sure. This sport can be cruel, but when it does go your way, it makes up for all the bad times. Heads up you'll get them again.
Your a great driver James. That incident at the chicane was a mess and at least one of that team should’ve been penalised, its how you react in that kind of situation and to be honest you handled it extremely well “let’s keep racing”. Reminded me of a certain Lewis Hamilton after Abu Dhabi. Go and get them in the next one mate 👌🏻
James you are the real winner for me,i wish you had a teammate behind you in this special race .but head up ,i wish you all luck for your future.youre a good guy
That was tough mate. You did really well and deserved that without that “takeout”. Wish all the best for the upcoming mid season race and $1M prize 💪🏽🏁
Sick video! You were definitely the biggest surprise to be up there fighting for the Major Title after the season start. Guess it always counts to Never Give Up. 🙌
Mr. J Bumblebee, you are an absolute next-level super fast driver. You are a great role model to all esports fans. Keep grinding the dream is closer than you think and the content is epic, thanks for sharing the journey with us.
I think you showed a great potential and that you are a fighter. It must be heartbreaking but to be honest you did a great job. I believe you will do better at the next event. I hope this will get you the funds needed to get the seat in real life potentially even a team looking for a driver. Good luck
Been watching you for years mate Don’t let this dampen your fire james!! Your an exceptional driver in both sim and in the real thing! You’ll have your time mate I know you will. this was just to sharpen your tools even more ready for next time 🙏🏻🙏🏻 keep at it brother you got this
I just watched this, I am so gutted for you James, that was yours for sure, I have rewatched the replay of the incident over and over and clearly you was unfairly taken out, good luck for the next event, I cant wait too watch you win 😄
James that’s just ridiculous man point blank! Good news is there’s always the next one where the stakes are even higher! Admittedly we as teams, organizers & individually realize what a great opportunity this is for those select few who get chosen, however Sim Racing as a whole is suffering due to the average to above average players that never see these opportunities. We truly believe in the “little guy” & would like to see a more accessible route for everyone & help support it. Best of luck as always bud 🤙🏽💯
Mate, I feel for you there. You handled yourself better than most though and you should hold your head high knowing that. Reset and go again, it's what you do best.
No worries mate. You have all it needs to become a champion. In the end you'll find it made you more experienced-stronger in order to win the next one ;)
You have amazing speed I know that McCormack fellow is just wickedly fast, I have never heard of the other guy. But in such brutal competition you should be proud.
Those rigs are nice. Wish i had the same the sim itself is beautiful cant wait to be able to play. ACC is my favorite sim so im sure im going to love Rennsport
I'm really feeling sad fo you, even if i don't like that Championship on this Sim because it's not open to everyone to play but just for some team, i was cheering for you, that last chicane was just... not fair, really. I'm sorry for you, but you're a legend on the Simracing, let's catch the 1m dollars!
I just can't bring myself to watch 15-minute sprint races with GT3 cars around the same 4 tracks over and over and over again. Sim racing should be so much more than that.
James, you going to be at SRE in October? Can only echo what's been said already. I saw cinzik slowing to let you by but his team mate did the damage, awful incident, but the best part is you've been knocked down enough times to know you'll come back stronger 💪 on to Dubai! Show them how it's done!
Dude, I was so incensed over this. I vented my spleen on Twitter because I 100% believe you were deliberately taken out, but this was ignored by the stewards for a reason as yet unknown (maybe favouritism). I, and many like me, regard yourself as the actual 'First Ever Rennsport Champion'. You drove like a champion in an unfamiliar car on an unfamiliar racing sim. You have nothing left to prove for someone looking a proven race driver.
Gutted for you m8. Hopefully nothing happens to you on the next major and you can just show to the workd who's the best sim racer. One thing, if you do end up winning the prize pool, will you put it directly into irl racing or will you invest in a business or something else, so that you can fund your racing career?
Thanks man. One thing a lot of people don't take into account is that the teams take cuts of the prize money from the drivers, so we don't get all of it! Of course I'll be looking to fund my racing career as much as I can.
I was thinking the same thing. These events are huge for you since if you can win at least one championship, that could get you A LOT closer to getting a race seat.
That was some bs he should have never took the inside like that you had right of way he either should have backed out and just kept going or he should’ve just not even been that aggressive I mean he was riding up your right side acceding track limits this whole race at the end was bs this sucks
Win a few of those tournaments and you can sponsor your own racing career. Instead of some cleaning solvent logo you can have your own face and name all around the car. 😄
I saw the race u did what u could u didn't flip out everyone there know u the champ u get next time dont beat yourself up remember nobody can't stop u in acc or I racing
Let's call it what it is....cheating! Forcing past you off track, outside of track limits, to then get pit manoeuvred by the team mate is extremely dirty! Also can't see how it was ruled ok by officials...brings in to question their integrity as well! Poor show ESL👎
Awesome Job man! Since i like stewarding i need to put my opinion about the incident here :) From the limited angels it looks like you got a tiny bit sideways out of the chicane and the car behind then drives into you. Not sure i would judge it as a racing incident tho. The car behind can see that you are slow out of the chicane and still gives you barely enough room. So i would probably have judged it as a fault of the driver behind. But only a slap on the wrist since he left some room. Turned out not enough but its a high pressure situation and split second decision making. And just as expected when i saw the format drama came. Makes it more exiting but i still feel someone is always going to get shafted since there is a big factor of luck. I would prefer a simple points standing and not the finalist mode. But that would probably not produce enough drama for ESL and the more mainstream race fan. Best of luck for the next one!
i agree with most of what you wrote, but the factor of circumstance needs to be applied in future events, or else this team racing thing is going to be a shitshow. in my honest opinion the r8g guy knew exactely what he was doing and in a split second decision in another situation you would always lift to avoid a penalty and save yourself a penalty postrace. all in all its (again) a bad look for sim racing as an esport, and after the williams iracing debacle we're continuing now in rennsport. its a shame.
It is really hard to prove he did it on purpose. But exactly this incident is what some other sim races and i were afraid of when the format was announced. I totally agree with you that its a bad look, but the organisers want drama and not fair competition. Nice to see that atleast most of the teams are fair. But if this goes on a little bit longer with no change i cant imagine what kind of incidents could happen if the drivers arent valuing fair racing.
To be honest I don't understand how they can say it was a race incident. You can clearly see that you are on the racing line and the audi swerves into you in the chicane and pushed you. The stewards can see the replay 100 times. For me it's just wasn't great for them to end the championship like this. This is why I don't watch F1 anymore, just a bunch of burocracy. By the way, congrats on all the other races, top driving.
I'd become familiar with the concept, and reality, of Karma. What that price would have allowed you to do? Such thing requires some more effort to be conquered I guess...you're there though.
Next time you come against cheap skates like that, you need to fight for every thing you deserve even if they try to say it's just a racing incident. But you're the real champ, not a pair of audi driving cheaters who k ew what they were doing...clearly.
I love doing some sim racing over winter when it's too cold to go out on my motorbike but I ain't watching someone else do it. Watching sim racing is like watching someone watch porn.
Why are all your interviews in dungeon prison with a lamp from Walmart? An odd choice for sure for a man who makes signs for himself that read “pretty boy Baldwin.”
Make sure you go & show some love to the Mercedes team: bit.ly/3CMEZ4R
Sorry about what happened, but you could'nt control it. I hope you can learn to keep your mind in a safe space no matter what happens and always bounce back immediately. I hope you come out of this STRONGER, FASTER & BETTER. See you in the next race Champ!
The high point of the video is when James is saying the control room "it doesn't matter anyway, I can't get the win back we might as well just carry on". Very mature and sensible
Man I really had goosebumps. Such a good sportsman. Hats off🎉🏆
I am sorry for you James. You deserved the win. We fans know who is the real champ.
But cinsik has also done a very good job… I think both of them would have deserved it…
@@Lord_Percevalnah i think James deserves it more and the move by the audis was very very sketchy
@@utkarshchaurasia2233 agree
Bruh, Marcell had the most points even without the gimmick of finalist mode. James and Daire had a shot at winning only because ESL orchestrated a close championship in the ruleset.
@@timobolka1 some haters here 😑
I'm sorry, the 'Ring incident was none of your fault and it's going to take a fucking lot of effort to convince me to the contrary. This was not an oopsie doopsie racing incident. It looked extremely deliberate. I admire your maturity in the control room, they'd have to measure my blood pressure in Richter scale if I were you.
You're really, really good at this and I genuinely believe your first major success in a tournament of this scale is just around the corner. You got this.
yeah i'm sorry, teammate made absolutely no effort to get out of his way, if it was on a straight i understand but through a chicane? Not buying it, and that's me being impartial I think
are you shitting me? james tried to defend from the teammate and turned himself the audi. If you look with your eyes and not with what you want the truth to be, you can see that the audi was alongside, left james a car width, which is what is required by the rules, and james misjudged the situation, tried to defend and turned himself on the audi. Also replying to @punchawaterfall6302, the teammate had no obligation to get out of the way on a straight, and even if he did, he wouldnt have enough time to react to james' extremely late defensive move.
Wasn't expecting Jardier hanging out in the crowd when the camera panned 😂
😂
I'm not an emotional guy but I would have had tears in my eyes for sure. This sport can be cruel, but when it does go your way, it makes up for all the bad times. Heads up you'll get them again.
Your a great driver James. That incident at the chicane was a mess and at least one of that team should’ve been penalised, its how you react in that kind of situation and to be honest you handled it extremely well “let’s keep racing”. Reminded me of a certain Lewis Hamilton after Abu Dhabi. Go and get them in the next one mate 👌🏻
James you are the real winner for me,i wish you had a teammate behind you in this special race .but head up ,i wish you all luck for your future.youre a good guy
That was tough mate. You did really well and deserved that without that “takeout”. Wish all the best for the upcoming mid season race and $1M prize 💪🏽🏁
Thank you man.
Shocking, absolutrely shocking!
Dont know how you managed to remain so calm, respect due!
williams team doing something unprecedented...no surprise
BUT
your sportsmanship does not get overlooked and im sure sponsors are taking note of that.
Crazy how events can get such a massive cash prize pool and not even have everything sorted and botch judgments so badly.
Everyone knows you deserve that win. Been waiting for this video. Absolute class mate.
Good luck on the next one James. Go get that MILLION!
You were amazing and drove like a champ, dont let this get to you, keep working hard and you will win the next one!💪
Sick video! You were definitely the biggest surprise to be up there fighting for the Major Title after the season start. Guess it always counts to Never Give Up. 🙌
Cheers Moritz🤝
Took that loss like a champ mate, confident you'll come back a win your deserved trophy💪
Mr. J Bumblebee, you are an absolute next-level super fast driver. You are a great role model to all esports fans. Keep grinding the dream is closer than you think and the content is epic, thanks for sharing the journey with us.
🤝
I think you showed a great potential and that you are a fighter. It must be heartbreaking but to be honest you did a great job. I believe you will do better at the next event. I hope this will get you the funds needed to get the seat in real life potentially even a team looking for a driver. Good luck
Been watching you for years mate Don’t let this dampen your fire james!! Your an exceptional driver in both sim and in the real thing! You’ll have your time mate I know you will. this was just to sharpen your tools even more ready for next time 🙏🏻🙏🏻 keep at it brother you got this
you weren't battling just to win, you were battling to come back racing in real life ♥ keep pushing James, time will come
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I just watched this, I am so gutted for you James, that was yours for sure, I have rewatched the replay of the incident over and over and clearly you was unfairly taken out, good luck for the next event, I cant wait too watch you win 😄
You had a great performance all the way through you should be proud we keep pushing on my eyes you deserved that win. 🏆
Classy way to deal with the situation. Onwards & upwards!
James that’s just ridiculous man point blank! Good news is there’s always the next one where the stakes are even higher!
Admittedly we as teams, organizers & individually realize what a great opportunity this is for those select few who get chosen, however Sim Racing as a whole is suffering due to the average to above average players that never see these opportunities. We truly believe in the “little guy” & would like to see a more accessible route for everyone & help support it.
Best of luck as always bud 🤙🏽💯
Mate, I feel for you there. You handled yourself better than most though and you should hold your head high knowing that. Reset and go again, it's what you do best.
Thank you for sharing your experience I know you gave it your all you always do.👍
You are an amazing driver, keep it up champ! Glory is right on the next corner! 💪
YOU ARE THE GREATEST dRIVER TO EVER DRIVE FOR Mercedes' esports team...we will appreciate you when its too late
No worries mate. You have all it needs to become a champion. In the end you'll find it made you more experienced-stronger in order to win the next one ;)
All things considered, that did *not* look like a racing incident to me... shocking decision tbh
You have amazing speed I know that McCormack fellow is just wickedly fast, I have never heard of the other guy.
But in such brutal competition you should be proud.
Although what happened, you definitely were the star of this Championship, hope next time life doesn't switch up and eat you up!
Those rigs are nice. Wish i had the same the sim itself is beautiful cant wait to be able to play. ACC is my favorite sim so im sure im going to love Rennsport
I'm really feeling sad fo you, even if i don't like that Championship on this Sim because it's not open to everyone to play but just for some team, i was cheering for you, that last chicane was just... not fair, really.
I'm sorry for you, but you're a legend on the Simracing, let's catch the 1m dollars!
Hold your head high bro and keep pushing 👍🏾
That’s a champions drive brother, congrats!
Chin up mate. Keep chipping away at that wall and eventually it’ll collapse 👊
I just can't bring myself to watch 15-minute sprint races with GT3 cars around the same 4 tracks over and over and over again. Sim racing should be so much more than that.
That is though to accept for sure, but you did something special there.
They should be looking for a NFL contract with punts like that
For me you are the Champion but you will win in the next ESL Championship, I can feel it
is this frakkin game ready or not? it's like years i'm waiting for it
The universe got bigger plans for you. Keep going, I'm sure you will anyway... ❤
Remember when life hits you in the ass it's s still pushing you forward .
Love that
How the hell is that not a penalty. It's clearly fucking blatant.
James, you going to be at SRE in October? Can only echo what's been said already. I saw cinzik slowing to let you by but his team mate did the damage, awful incident, but the best part is you've been knocked down enough times to know you'll come back stronger 💪 on to Dubai! Show them how it's done!
I'm not sure at the minute, hopefully tho! Thanks btw🙂
Good luck Mr Bald - Win
Brilliant
Robbed. This is why I find it difficult to get into eSports. It just seems like bad sportsmanship is rewarded and celebrated.
We all know James is the best, f*ck them cheaters, you deserved the win
This was a really great video!!
Glad you liked it.
I definitely should have been you.
Great video and it looks like a fantastic game! But when does it get released?
The guy saw an oportunity to take you out without penalti and he took it, its unfair, but this is high level esports so it is what it is.
Got robbed
that's some absolute bullshit
We all know you got robbed, amazing performance James
great video absolutely loved it
👍
everyone knows who is the true winner
Dude, I was so incensed over this. I vented my spleen on Twitter because I 100% believe you were deliberately taken out, but this was ignored by the stewards for a reason as yet unknown (maybe favouritism). I, and many like me, regard yourself as the actual 'First Ever Rennsport Champion'. You drove like a champion in an unfamiliar car on an unfamiliar racing sim. You have nothing left to prove for someone looking a proven race driver.
Gutted for you m8. Hopefully nothing happens to you on the next major and you can just show to the workd who's the best sim racer. One thing, if you do end up winning the prize pool, will you put it directly into irl racing or will you invest in a business or something else, so that you can fund your racing career?
Thanks man. One thing a lot of people don't take into account is that the teams take cuts of the prize money from the drivers, so we don't get all of it! Of course I'll be looking to fund my racing career as much as I can.
I was thinking the same thing. These events are huge for you since if you can win at least one championship, that could get you A LOT closer to getting a race seat.
Lets do this in the next 1
Pure filth from Williams, but hardly surprising given their track record
why did I laugh when I saw jardier
better luck next time
That was some bs he should have never took the inside like that you had right of way he either should have backed out and just kept going or he should’ve just not even been that aggressive I mean he was riding up your right side acceding track limits this whole race at the end was bs this sucks
Win a few of those tournaments and you can sponsor your own racing career.
Instead of some cleaning solvent logo you can have your own face and name all around the car. 😄
I saw the race u did what u could u didn't flip out everyone there know u the champ u get next time dont beat yourself up remember nobody can't stop u in acc or I racing
so close yet so far...
I could never be a racing driver. I'd be throwing punches after that. No way would I be able to chalk it up to simply being "unlucky".
Why’s it such a massive prize pool for an eSport that doesn’t get that many views?
Let's call it what it is....cheating! Forcing past you off track, outside of track limits, to then get pit manoeuvred by the team mate is extremely dirty! Also can't see how it was ruled ok by officials...brings in to question their integrity as well! Poor show ESL👎
Yeah this is why I don't like watching these crappy eSports races especially on rennsport
Awesome Job man! Since i like stewarding i need to put my opinion about the incident here :)
From the limited angels it looks like you got a tiny bit sideways out of the chicane and the car behind then drives into you. Not sure i would judge it as a racing incident tho. The car behind can see that you are slow out of the chicane and still gives you barely enough room. So i would probably have judged it as a fault of the driver behind. But only a slap on the wrist since he left some room. Turned out not enough but its a high pressure situation and split second decision making.
And just as expected when i saw the format drama came. Makes it more exiting but i still feel someone is always going to get shafted since there is a big factor of luck. I would prefer a simple points standing and not the finalist mode. But that would probably not produce enough drama for ESL and the more mainstream race fan.
Best of luck for the next one!
i agree with most of what you wrote, but the factor of circumstance needs to be applied in future events, or else this team racing thing is going to be a shitshow. in my honest opinion the r8g guy knew exactely what he was doing and in a split second decision in another situation you would always lift to avoid a penalty and save yourself a penalty postrace. all in all its (again) a bad look for sim racing as an esport, and after the williams iracing debacle we're continuing now in rennsport. its a shame.
It is really hard to prove he did it on purpose. But exactly this incident is what some other sim races and i were afraid of when the format was announced. I totally agree with you that its a bad look, but the organisers want drama and not fair competition. Nice to see that atleast most of the teams are fair. But if this goes on a little bit longer with no change i cant imagine what kind of incidents could happen if the drivers arent valuing fair racing.
Wow that was bullshit
In reality we all knew what was going on, but the stewards can't judge without evidence. The 1 million sounds better anyway 😁
110 % robbed...
That sucks for you. So unfortunate
What Sim is this done on?
Rennsport
@@Jaaames thanks homie
Clearly a take out, guy kept his foot in and aimed for you…
There is only one word: heartbreaking 💔❤️🩹
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love you Brother 💔
Love you too
Is that a new game?
At the time it looked proper dodgy, hard to come back from mentally I'm sure. Get those laps in and come back to win next time
To be honest I don't understand how they can say it was a race incident. You can clearly see that you are on the racing line and the audi swerves into you in the chicane and pushed you. The stewards can see the replay 100 times. For me it's just wasn't great for them to end the championship like this. This is why I don't watch F1 anymore, just a bunch of burocracy. By the way, congrats on all the other races, top driving.
I'd become familiar with the concept, and reality, of Karma. What that price would have allowed you to do? Such thing requires some more effort to be conquered I guess...you're there though.
7:07 Reaction
Damn audi team should get penalty, no questions here! First guy went overtrack another hit the back, both should get penalties no question here for me
I will say it you were Robbed
It seems so unfair.
You got robbed....regardless of whether it was intentional or not.
Next time you come against cheap skates like that, you need to fight for every thing you deserve even if they try to say it's just a racing incident. But you're the real champ, not a pair of audi driving cheaters who k ew what they were doing...clearly.
Nobody will play this crap in a year.
I love doing some sim racing over winter when it's too cold to go out on my motorbike but I ain't watching someone else do it. Watching sim racing is like watching someone watch porn.
Gutted.
Indeed💔
Why are all your interviews in dungeon prison with a lamp from Walmart? An odd choice for sure for a man who makes signs for himself that read “pretty boy Baldwin.”
Yeah definitley made my own signs, get out my comments ya absolute melt
Read about islam man ❤
To me that was complete bullshit.