About
Content Creator
Annemarie, known as Artemis online, has spent the past two years focused on the sim racing space - starting out with Gran Turismo 7 and now expanding into F1 24, iRacing, and Assetto Corsa Competizione.
She began her journey in content creation to find and grow a welcoming community for all sim racers. She has since seen her community go above and beyond for beginners looking for tips on how to get started, and firsthand seen the difference it makes having support and backing in high-level competitions.
She continues to strive for improvement in her content creation, and is beginning to branch out from Twitch to include more polished content on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Check out her social pages to get updates on her eSports career and to help her continue to push boundaries as a woman in motorsports!
Pro Sim Racer
Annemarie's journey to pro status has been a sight to see.
If you saw her skills at the beginning of the Gran Turismo 7 release, you'd have thought her crazy to have sights set on landing a spot on an eSports team - let alone one of the most prominent at the time. But, she was determined, and set goals as stepping stones to get the metrics the team would be scouting for. Almost 700 hours of practice, independent league racing, and official Gran Turismo World Series races later, she was invited to join the roster of incredible drivers on Dstinct. This achievement in December of 2022 was huge, but it was just the beginning.
Continuing to improve in 2023, she achieved some of her best results so far - a testament to the time spent in practice and insight from her team. By July of 2023, she decided it was time to explore other disciplines within sim racing.
Coincidentally, around that time she saw a free to enter competition that was opening soon with Oracle RedBull Racing. This competition was designed to select 6 of the top female sim racers to join a first-of-its-kind development program in partnership with Rokt and Oracle RedBull Sim Racing - affectionately named Rokt the Rig. Only issue? This competition was being hosted on F1 23, a sim that she had not spent a single second driving on. F1 intrigued her though, so she decided to install F1 23 and enter the competition with less than 20 hours of driving experience.
To her surprise, her intial time trial results on Monza were fast enough to earn her a place in the top 20, which meant she was on the grid for the qualifying race. Only two drivers would be selected from each of the qualifying rounds, so she knew she had a lot of work to do. Balancing a full time job and intense training was no easy feat, but it paid off. After a small incident towards the beginning of the race, she leaned on her knowledge from training and managed to claw back up to 4th - just shy of the podium she was gunning for. While gutted that she just missed out on the podium, she reminded herself that RedBull Sim Racing wouldn't be looking solely at race pace and finishing position - so she still had a shot. And she was right, a few days later receiving an email that she was one of the 2 drivers selected from the first round to be part of the program. To this day, she is continuing to train with the Oracle RedBull Sim Racing team and has high hopes for the future.
She couldn't stop at that win though, as she had still never been able to race in a live, in-person competition. Seemingly reading her mind, in October 2023 SRO Motorsports Group North America opened applications for the first ever Esports Arena at the PRI Conference in Indianapolis, IN. Figuring she had nothing to lose, she put together her resume of sim racing projects and achievements and hoped for the best as she submitted her application.
Despite doubts, she was invited to participate in the PRO race on Thursday during the conference. The catch? She yet again found herself in a position where she was having to drive on a sim she had no experience with, this time Assetto Corsa Competizione. So, after returning home from a trip to RedBull Racing headquarters in Milton Keynes as part of the Rokt the Rig program, she spent those to weeks laser focused on ACC - learning the physics, how to create a car setup from scratch, and practicing racecraft. She then flew out to Indy, and survived the race among many of the fastest racers on ACC (pictured right). She may not have brought home a trophy, but did earn her pro card and felt accomplished being able to keep up with the rest of the grid despite limited experience.