I had the pleasure of sitting down and taking to Jan Fehler who is currently a professional driver for Team Haas in the F1 Esport Series.

Hello Jan, it’s a big pleasure being here with you and talking about everything related about F1 and the pro series. Would you mind introducing yourself to those who haven’t heard of you?

Hello, thanks for having me. My name is Jan Fehler, I’m a 23 year old student from Germany and I compete in the 2019 F1 Esports Pro Series for Haas F1 Team Esports.

Pleasure to have you here Jan , a lot of people dream about being professional drivers and here you are with the opportunity to accomplish only what a select few can do can you tell us how you started with racing professionally?

I’ve been playing F1 games since I was very young. However it was not on a regular basis, that only started in 2010 when Codemasters started to release F1 games for PC. Since then I played with a wheel and played through the career modes mostly. In 2016 I realized the AI was just too boring (and too slow) to compete against, so I joined Apex Online Racing to see what I can do against the best in the business.

I would say I started to try to professionalize it since F1 Esports started it’s first season which would be around September 2017.