{"id":76509,"date":"2024-09-26T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racer.com\/?p=367589"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:00:19","slug":"button-latest-pro-to-join-forza-legend-vs-leaderboard-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/button-latest-pro-to-join-forza-legend-vs-leaderboard-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Button latest pro to join Forza \u2018Legend vs Leaderboard\u2019 lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this year Mobil 1 and Forza Motorsport gave gamers the chance to pit themselves against professionals with the &#8220;Legend vs. Leaderboard Rival Events&#8221; series. Players could see if they could lap the game\u2019s Maple Valley Raceway on the Xbox game faster than three-time NASCAR Cup champion Tony Stewart and Indy NXT race winner Jamie Chadwick. Now 2009 Formula 1 champion Jenson Button has joined the fray.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge, which is part of Mobil 1\u2019s ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations, once again takes place on Maple Valley &#8212; a fictional track that\u2019s been a mainstay of the Forza Motorsport franchise &#8212; with the 1971 Lotus Elan Sprint the car of choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c is super slow. It&#8217;s <em>so<\/em> slow,\u201d said Button. \u201cThe funny thing about racing cars is they don&#8217;t have to be fast to be fun. And it doesn&#8217;t have to be fast to be competitive. Sometimes the slowest form of racing is the most fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of sideways, lots and lots of opposite entries and then trying to gather it all up. But it&#8217;s amazing. Even when it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s slow. There&#8217;s frustrating things to it so you don&#8217;t want too much. But it was good fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"waslinkname\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/button-latest-pro-to-join-forza-legend-vs-leaderboard-lineup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" \/><\/span>The first two rounds of the Legend vs. Leaderboard series featured Stewart lapping in a 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 (in 1m 57.453), and Chadwick in a 1970 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 (in 1m 54.859).<\/p>\n<p>The challenge with Button runs from Sept. 26 to Oct. 9, 2024, and can be accessed by logging into the Rivals section of Forza Motorsport.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the opportunity to say you\u2019re quicker than a bona fide motorsport legend, players can also be in with a shot at winning a custom in-game driver&#8217;s suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Mobil 1 and Forza Motorsport gave gamers the chance to pit themselves against professionals with the &#8220;Legend vs. Leaderboard Rival Events&#8221; series. Players could see if they could lap the game\u2019s Maple Valley Raceway on the Xbox game faster than three-time NASCAR Cup champion Tony Stewart and Indy NXT race winner Jamie &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}