Audi sacked German driver Daniel Abt from their Formula E team because he"made a conscious decision to go against the rules" in an esports competition, the German carmaker said on Wednesday.
Abt, who announced on Tuesday he had lost his seat, was punished for getting a professional gamer to compete for him in the"Race at Home Challenge", a virtual series involving regular drivers from the all-electric championship.Audi said in a statement that it stood by its culture of tolerating mistakes but what had happened on Saturday was deliberate.
He said he had been more interested in social media interaction than results and had intended to"create a funny story for fans" who weren't necessarily that interested in racing that bore little relation to the real thing. "We emphasized from the beginning that for us and for me it is not about results in this online series. Personally it was not at all important to me right from the start as it was not at all the reason why I did it."
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