For three days, the HDC will be held at *SCAPE in Orchard Road and will include feature a regional sim racing championship that follows the inaugural E-Cities Championship held in November 2021, along with an electric go-karting experience and a community sim racing challenge with prizes for the fastest sim racers from the public.
“We wanted to create a motorsport festival for everyone, ranging from electric karting for young families to youths and millennials who could watch an entertainment segment at the end of the day that features some of Singapore’s hottest music talents.”
To be held at Orchard Road, this will be Asia’s first hybrid online-offline festival that combines live sim racing, entertainment, lifestyle and technology within an urban carnival setting. To cap off the event, an entertainment element will be added to the post-sim race event with Singaporean artists RRILEY and Haneri, who will both perform a set of three songs each.
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“This is a unique event comprising multiple elements for the community,” said Lim Keong Wee, co-founder of the Legion of Racers.
Ms Guo Teyi, Director, Retail and Dining, Singapore Tourism Board, said: “We welcome the inaugural HyperDrive Cities Festival to Singapore’s famous shopping street.
RRILEY, who made her debut in 2012 as a founding member of the Sam Willows, “It is just so nice to be performing again and I am so excited to bring my music to a new audience.” The HDC 2022 Festival is set to bring more than 5,000 members of the public to *SCAPE, while thousands more will follow the HyperDrive Cities Championships live on Youtube. In addition, the festival at Orchard Road will also feature the HDC Gameplay Stations, motorsports-themed gameplay powered by Augmented Reality.
Participants complete the various Gamemaster challenges to earn NFTs and rare prizes. GPSS is a collection of innovative race-themed lifestyle experiences that complements the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2022 excitement beyond the track. With support from the Singapore Tourism Board, the Legion of Racers will organise the HyperDrive Cities (HDC) 2022 Festival from 23 to 25 September.
The simulated track that the sim racers will be racing on is the Orchard Road Street Circuit, which the Legion of Racers team produced. The festival’s diverse mix of virtual and in-person experiences will add buzz to Orchard Road and strengthen its position as a lifestyle destination beyond retail. In addition, DJ NashD, the official DJ for local artist Shigga Shay and hip hop collective Grizzle Grind Crew, will raise the decibels on 23 September from 8 pm to 10 pm.
The Singapore Tourism Board supports the event, which oversees the Orchard Road precinct. The partners confirmed for the festival include McLaren, TYCA, Next Level Racing, Logitech G, Monster Energy, and Tarmac Works. For 2022, the track has been extended to include the Somerset and Dhoby Ghaut sub-precincts. We invite visitors of all ages to join the festival and reimagine Orchard Road’s offerings.”
