Watch OverTake At Zolder: Our Race For Mental Health 6 Live Stream

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Zolder is calling for Jimmy Broadbent's Race For Mental Health 6 - and we will be on the grid! Here's how to follow our race as we will be streaming the full event.

The name Jimmy Broadbent is known across the entire sim racing space: Once a shed dweller making sim racing videos on YouTube, the Briton has become a real-world racing champion in the Praga Cup UK and is now competing in NLS at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. At the end of every year, he hosts an event to raise funds for a cause important to him, mental health.

Racing at Zolder for 23 hours, the event has raised over £300,000 for the Mind charity and this year, high-profile names are taking part once again - including 2013 Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan, current F1 title holder Max Verstappen, and then, there's us - OverTake fields its own Supercars Ford Mustang.

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You can follow all of our drivers as we stream uninterrupted to our Twitch channel and also on YouTube with three individual streams broken up across the event.

Part 1 - 14:30 UTC on 9 November​


Part 2 - 21:00 UTC on 9 November​


Part 3 - 07:00 UTC on 10 November​


You can expect our team committing fully to the unserious on-track nature of this event. It is possible to buy penalties through the donation page, and those penalties can then be served through some kind of humourous task - expect the best from all of us and the many others competing as well.

Of course, donations are also possible without purchasing penalties. Like every year, the aim of the event is to raise money for the Mind charity organization that helps people with mental health issues and raises awareness in this regard, too. The donation page for Jimmy Broadnbent's Race For Mental Health 6 is already open and accepting donations - in fact, close to £3.000 have been raised at the time of writing this article already.

For more information about this event and words from Jimmy himself, check out our previous article on the Race For Mental Health 6. We are looking forward to seeing you in our stream chats this weekend!

What do you hope to see happen in the Race For Mental Health? Let us know in the comments below and join the discussion on our forums!
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The Mind charity home page doesnt have one white male represented in any of its numerous photos, has an obviously depicted lesbian (non white) couple with Rainbow flag socks, is pushing fake mental illnesses like seasonal disorder whose symptoms are vague and generalized, and i bet a million dollars, does not consider a very serious mental disorder, gender dysphoria, to be a mental illness. As i browse through the internal links, more same sex couples, more women, very few white men except when depicted as a couple.

Its obvious what is going on at this charity, and if someone wants to support it, great. But lets be clear, honest, and upfront about agendas behind organizations like this so everyone know exactly what is going on before they give them money.
 
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The Mind charity home page doesnt have one white male represented in any of its numerous photos, has an obviously depicted lesbian (non white) couple with Rainbow flag socks, is pushing fake mental illnesses like seasonal disorder whose symptoms are vague and generalized, and i bet a million dollars, does not consider a very serious mental disorder, gender dysphoria, to be a mental illness. As i browse through the internal links, more same sex couples, more women, very few white men except when depicted as a couple.

Its obvious what is going on at this charity, and if someone wants to support it, great. But lets be clear, honest, and upfront about agendas behind organizations like this so everyone know exactly what is going on before they give them money.
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Well that is quite an accusation you are making here. And not against Jimmy Broadbent but against the Mind organization. A slightly better substantiation than you are giving now seems appropriate to me.
 
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To be honest, I think most of the hate and the mental issues are caused/worsened by socials and comments sections all around internet. Human being's skill to hate "the different" is spreaded all around the world. That's the reason I only visit this commentaries section and most of time I take some breaks because of comments like that. I don't need to remember how intolerant and hater some people is. My advice to keep your mental health a bit better is to avoid internet socials. Face to face contact is more rewarding and most of people avoid hate comments because they are "still" considered unpolite. Maybe in some years they'll perform in public just like in socials, but we are not in that point yet, luckily. Have fun in the race.
 
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Pepucho Pumuqui said:
To be honest, I think most of the hate and the mental issues are caused by socials and comments sections all around internet. Human being's skill to hate "the different" is spreaded all around the world. That's the reason I only visit this commentaries section and most of time I take some breaks because of comments like that. I don't need to remember how intolerant and hater some people is. My advice to keep your mental health a bit better is to avoid internet socials. Face to face contact is more rewarding and most of people avoid hate comments because they are "still" unpolite. Maybe in some years they'll perform in public just like in socials, but we are not in that point yet, luckily. Have fun in the race.
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Agreed! I do generally avoid comment sections, but my wife is a psychologist, so I take umbrage when people insult her profession. Also, I firmly believe that sim racing is for everyone, and posts like the one I replied to are against that mantra. I hope Overtake does "well" in the race (even though that's not the point) and I can't wait to watch and maybe toss a donation in tpfitz name!
 
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I'm a physician and every day I try to help people to manage with "hate". It's hard to find "safe places" in the internet where you can sail quietly without risk of reading hate comments against you or anybody else. I'm a "lucky" 46 year old white western man, but when I read any hate comment against a person because of a difference, I really feel like it was against me. That's why I avoid socials. And I'm happier since I started to do it.
PD: I'm bald and spanish, sometimes I read hilarious comments about both tags, but they give me fun :D
 
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Pepucho Pumuqui said:
I'm a physician and every day I try to help people to manage with "hate". It's hard to find "safe places" in the internet where you can sail quietly without risk of reading hate comments against you or anybody else. I'm a "lucky" 46 year old white western man, but when I read any hate comment against a person because of a difference, I really feel like it was against me. That's why I avoid socials. And I'm happier since I started to do it.
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I have been off all social media for about 4 years now and it's definitely made me happier! However, it is disarming when you see such blind hate in a post about sim racing and charity. Most of the time it just makes me pity those people, but like I said, I don't let people insult my wife or her hard work
:). We need more people who take offense on behalf of people who don't have the power or ability to stand up for themselves. Cheers for the difference you make!
 
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zaprowsdower12 said:
I have been off all social media for about 4 years now and it's definitely made me happier! However, it is disarming when you see such blind hate in a post about sim racing and charity.
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We covered an event organised last October by Elz - long before she joined the team - that was to raise money for a breast cancer charity.

The couple of responses we initially had were saying "how about just stop consuming sugary foods, that'll stop you from getting breast cancer". I was amazed.

That's like telling someone to stop smoking if they don't want to have lung cancer. When there are many people who contract lung cancer that have never smoked in their lives.
 
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We covered an event organised last October by Elz - long before she joined the team - that was to raise money for a breast cancer charity.

The couple of responses we initially had were saying "how about just stop consuming sugary foods, that'll stop you from getting breast cancer". I was amazed.

That's like telling someone to stop smoking if they don't want to have lung cancer. When there are many people who contract lung cancer that have never smoked in their lives.
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The amount of armchair MDs and PhDs is astonishing and depressing. If only they ever actually read a book!
 
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Is this being broadcast anywhere? I'd like to watch the race as a whole rather than watch one driver's cockpit cam.
 
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If I remember correctly, the first one was supposed to be 24 hours but Jimmy accidentally hit 23 lol
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Nah Jimmy explained to us that in the first edition, he had forgotten to enable it as a team event so it was just a solo race (and I know how vocal our readers are about solo 24 hour races lol)

So he restarted it and to offset the hour roughly lost by having to restart the event, he made it 23 hours.
 
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That's like telling someone to stop smoking if they don't want to have lung cancer. When there are many people who contract lung cancer that have never smoked in their lives.
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I know your good intentions but the example is not so good. You couldn't imagine how much lung cancers are caused by smoking. And how much people dies because of it. I have a couple of cases each year in a small town.
 
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Pepucho Pumuqui said:
I know your good intentions but the example is not so good. You couldn't imagine how much lung cancers are caused by smoking. And how much people dies because of it. I have a couple of cases each year in a small town.
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And did you miss the part where I said there are people diagnosed with it who have never smoked? The issue isn't that smoking is wrongfully attributed as being a cause, because it can. It's this idea that only people who smoke get lung cancer, and continuously perpetuating that bogus notion is not doing anybody any good whatsoever.
 
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But you shouldn't underestimate smoking, and your message did it. Smoking is the biggest part of the problem with lung cancer. Just saying. I was not trying to be rude with you, just the opposite, but the example was not good. Smoking is like playing russian roulette about lung cancer. I attended lot of middle-aged people in my life dying because of lung cancer caused by smoking (you can diagnose it with each tumoral cells type).
 
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