Jimmy Broadbent

The third round at Oulton Park saw the team struggle, as the two drivers would gather 23rd place and 12th place finishes in both races.

At the second Silverstone round in Round 4, they would score a 6th place finish.

Due to a support race fatality, the next round in Brands Hatch was cancelled.

For the final race of the season, it was announced that Gordie Mutch would be replacing Hepworth as Broadbent's teammate to compete in Donington Park.

Donington would prove to be the team's most successful race of the year, as both Broadbent and Mutch would sweep the round and win both races, allowing the team to finish 5th overall in the championship standings.

In March 2022, Broadbent founded his racing team, Team87.

Team87 signed a multi-year partnership deal with German sim racing peripheral manufacturer Fanatec in August of that year.

The next month, Bell Sports became the team's official helmet manufacturer.

Broadbent and Mutch would race again as teammates in 2022 for Team87, this time participating in the inaugural 2022 Praga Cup season.

The team experienced a solid start in the first three rounds of the season, scoring two podiums and a 9th place finish.

In the end, the team finished in 33rd place overall and 14th place in their class.

The following event in 2023 saw him race a BMW M8 GTE for Mahle Racing, driving alongside FIA World Endurance Championship and W Series driver Beitske Visser and sim racers Muhammed Patel and Michele D’Alessandro.

They classified in 46th place overall and 17th place in their class.

Broadbent returned to the event in 2022, racing a Porsche 911 RSR GTE for Team Project 1 x BPM, alongside René Buttler, Bram Beelen and Tim Neuendorf.

The team qualified in 7th place setting a time of 3:46.894 and then in the race, finished in 9th place and 32nd place overall scoring 4 points.

In 2021, it was announced that Broadbent would take part in the 2021 Britcar Endurance Championship with Team J2 Praga, driving the Praga R1 alongside Jem Hepworth in the Praga class.

At the season opening round in Silverstone Circuit, Broadbent and Hepworth would finish 6th and 8th in Race 1 and Race 2 respectively.

James Alan Broadbent (born 13 June 1991) is an English social media personality, commentator, and racing driver.

He has over 900,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, with content related to gaming, sim racing, and real life racing.

Broadbent most recently competed in the 2022 Praga Cup, in which he won the team's and driver's championships in with his entry Team87 and teammate Gordie Mutch.

He also commentates for the Gran Turismo World Series esports tournament.

Broadbent's popularity has been partially attributed to his modest background, having lived in a shed in his mother's garden for a long period of time, and his honesty with personal struggles, both traits in stark contrast with the trend of internet celebrities portraying an artificial idyllic life.

In the following round in Snetterton Circuit, the duo would retire in Race 1, but would come back to finish 10th in Race 2.

Broadbent began uploading content for YouTube in 2012, his first video being published in May of that year.

His early videos consisted of raw video game footage with no commentary from sim racing games such as rFactor.

This would later develop into sim racing content with commentary throughout the years.

He reached 10,000 subscribers in 2017; by 2018, he had around 86,000 subscribers.

In 14 April 2018, Broadbent was temporarily banned by YouTube while viewing Michael Dunlop's then-lap record from 2016 on the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course on his stream.

His stream was also terminated for use of copyrighted content, as entertainment distributor Duke Video held the rights to all Isle of Man TT content.

Broadbent's ban was lifted the following day after Duke Video had lifted the claim on his livestream.

On 4 June 2018, Broadbent reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.

In 2019, Broadbent took part in the annual iRacing 24 Hours of Le Mans in the iRacing video game, with teammates Adam David Hodgkinson and Nate Lupson with the 2016 Audi R18 LMP1 prototype sports car, and won their race overall.

In November 2020, Jimmy raised over £71,000 for Mind in memory of his father, Alan Broadbent.

By the end of 2020, he had over 600,000 subscribers.

Broadbent was invited by Polyphony Digital, the creators of the Gran Turismo video game series, to work as a commentator on their FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships.

On May 16th 2020, Broadbent Won the annual iRacing Indy 500.

Broadbent now has 2/3 of the sim racing Triple Crown of Motorsport

During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, Broadbent participated in Formula One's F1 Esports Virtual Grand Prix exhibition series in the F1 2019 video game, taking part in the Bahrain round in a Racing Point RP19.

He fought McLaren driver Lando Norris for 4th place at the final lap of the race, with Broadbent ultimately taking the position at the final corner after a collision with Norris.

He later participated in the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual esports event in the rFactor 2 video game, piloting an Aston Martin Vantage GTE for Mahle Racing alongside former IndyCar Series driver Robert Wickens, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters driver Ferdinand Habsburg and sim racer Kevin Rotting.