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If you're a fan of Forza Motorsport 6 and you're also big into your Fords, then here's a good tie-up for you - the Blue Oval is putting on a virtual racing challenge, called Tame The Track, which it will debut at Gamescom, with the ultimate prize a drive in a real Ford Focus RS on a test circuit.
The aim of the challenge is for the gamers to try and keep pace with the real-world lap time of the Focus RS, driven around the Spa Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, by Ford's Chip Ganassi Racing driver Harry Tincknell.
The competition will take place at Gamescom, Europe's biggest interactive games trade fair, which runs from August 22-26 in Cologne, Germany.
Once the challenge has kicked off, the fastest Tame The Track competitors from August 23, 24 and 25 will be flown by helicopter to drive the Focus RS on a real circuit, with coaching from Tincknell - a man who has won his class at the Le Mans 24 Hours, remember. All the winners will also receive a pair of Recaro seats and prizes from Bang & Olufsen Play, the company behind the new Ford Fiesta's uprated sound system.
There will be further chances to win a Focus RS driving experience throughout the event in Cologne, if attendees share selfies from Ford's on-stand GIF station using #tamethetrack.
Anything else?
Ford's involvement with Forza Motorsport 6 on the Xbox One results in some of the brand's cars being included in the game, such as the Focus RS, the road-going GT supercar and the racing version as well, this latter GT being the very machine Tincknell drives in the FIA World Endurance Championship rendered in polygon form. As a result, at Gamescom, Ford's stand will include the RS, the GT race car and the Fiesta ST-Line.
You can watch a short video from Harry Tincknell, about Tame The Track, right here.
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