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Paris(France), 09 October 2020 - Team Vitality and the Renault Group are preparing for thelaunch of the new F1® Esports season next month. Earlier this year, the twoFrench brands announced the signing of coach Richard Arnaud and French driverNicolas Longuet to their Renault Vitality team. They have since been joined bytwo other drivers in Enstone, at the heart of the Renault DP World F1® Team, tobenefit from an optimal physical and technical preparation.
Renault Vitality engaged the servicesof Fabrizio Donoso and Casper Jansen during the F1® Esports Series Pro Draftday. The former is a Chilean driver who secured a very fine 2nd place in the2017 World Championships. He is returning this season with the desire tocontinue playing a leading role. The latter is a very young Dutch driver who isonly 17 and has great potential. The team will officially start the season on14 October at the first event of the 2020 F1® Esports Series calendar.
Inthis desire to help performance development within Team Vitality, Renault willalso append its name to the brand new Renault V.Performance. The 400m² space,located in the heart of the Stade de France, is entirely dedicated to thetraining of Team Vitality athletes. The Renault V.Performance can accommodateup to 3 teams at the same time and is also equipped to allow the club's medicaland sports teams to work directly on site with the athletes.
Team Vitality's other seven esportsteams (including League of Legends, Counter-Strike and Rainbow 6) will alsobenefit fully from this collaboration. All Team Vitality professional athleteswill be able to take advantage of Renault Sport Racing's expertise in achievingtop-level performance. This will particularly take the form of bootcamps (weeksof intensive training) organised at the Renault Sport Racing factory inEnstone, England, where the drivers of Renault DP World F1® Team and RenaultSport Academy train.
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About Renault V.Performance
Renault V.Performance, a collaboration between global esportsorganisation Team Vitality, iconic motorsport brand Renault Sport Racing andthe legendary Stade de France, is the ultimate training ground for in-gameperformance as well as physical and mental wellbeing. Located in the heart ofthe state of the art stadium, the 400m² high-performance facility is theofficial residence of the Team Vitality and Renault Vitality teams.
Powered by Renault Sport Racing expert knowledge of sportperformance, the cutting edge center has been especially designed to fit theneeds of Team Vitality and Renault Vitality athletes, who will benefit from theRenault V.Performance facilities and coaching staff, offering the highest levelof both mental and physical support. Renault Vitality is one of the longeststanding and integrated mainstream brand partnerships in esports and theRenault V.Performance further showcases the brands commitment to competitiveexcellence.
About Team Vitality
A global esports organisation, TeamVitality is dedicated to developing excellence and forging a new generation ofesports athletes. Home to the world’s best players competing across ninetitles, Team Vitality is one of only ten teams in the League of LegendsEuropean Championship, Europe’s most watched esports league. A globallyrecognised lifestyle and entertainment brand, Team Vitality and its playershave over 20 million followers across social media and carry more mainstreamsponsors than any other esports team, including adidas, Renault, Orange and RedBull. The team has participated in more than 1000 competitions and its playershave stood atop over 250 podiums around the world.
Founded in 2013 by Nicolas Maurer and Fabien Devide, Team Vitalityis headquartered in the heart of Paris, in their state-of-the-art publicesports complex V.Hive, and has high performance training centres in the iconicStade de France and the Renault Sport Racing factory in Oxfordshire, UK.
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About Renault
Motorsport has been part of Renault'sDNA for more than 115 years. Renault will soon be celebrating its 700th startin a Formula One™ Grand Prix and has won 11 Drivers' Championships, 12Constructors’ Championships and no less than 177 Grand Prix victories. Thelinks between motorsport and video game competitions are indisputable: passion,emotion and performance. These are as many ingredients that bring togethermotorsport, video games and esports fans across generations. It is in thiscontext that Renault and Team Vitality have created a new entity dedicated tomotorsport video game competitions: Renault Vitality.
