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Why not, since Verstappen is also doing very well in professional e-racing
I replied to someone else who said a similar thing, you can read it for my full reply if you want and let me know your thoughts on the question at the end.
I can’t say that with certainty, just as you can’t say with certainty he won’t be in the top 20. Based on de data we DO have he is at the moment at the absolute top irl racing ànd e-racing
Of course I can't say it with absolute certainty, but the probability that Verstappen is the absolute best example of talent and potential, despite coming from a very small pool of competitive drivers, is just astronomically small.
Pointing out the data we have irl of him being at the top just completely ignores the purpose of my hypothetical scenario.
No because 1 of his irl skills is about your claim. He already IS an e-sport elite, among millions of others
There aren’t millions of people competing professionally in sim racing though, there aren’t even that many professional football players in the world, 130,000 according to FIFA in 2021 (150 million since the early 2000s if you count amateurs according to FIFA too).
Verstappen is most active on iracing which seems to average mostly around 10k-15k players per day (250,000 total unique players according to the iracing website, and remember it is 150 million for football, 600x as many people). Only a very small percentage of these 10k-15k people are professional simracers, and many don’t even compete in the same categories. He is an elite among a very small number of people who have to pay a monthly subscription to use their equipment worth several hundreds or even thousands of dollars, which just brings me back to my initial point where he probably wouldn’t be as highly regarded if more people were able to participate.
If it took 250,000 players to discover one Verstappen, multiply that by 600 to match the numbers that football has, and in theory you would get 599 more Verstappen's.