Gamereactor var på plass under det store 24-timersløpet i Le Mans, og mens vi var der fikk vi snakke med Turn 10-sjefen Alan Hartman. Samtalen handlet selvsagt om Forza Motorsport 7, og spesielt esportaspektet ved serien. Ettersom det er 6-eren som benyttes for øyeblikket, ble det naturligvis litt om hva de har lært de siste 18 månedene:
"If you're going to have professional esport racers, we need to have the viewers. If we have the viewers, we're bringing the great sponsors and all that starts creating the ecosystem so we can have the best racers in the world which bring in again more viewers which can brings in more sponsors. And it begins to look more and more like what we see up here, today, with Le Mans."
Han fortsetter med å fortelle hvordan deres arbeid vil gagne hele sjangeren:
"I think developing our racing esport ecosystem is gonna be good for all racing games, whether the players are gonna compete on PC, Xbox, or other consoles [...] I think what we're doing which is unique is not just going off and trying to create exact replication of [what's happening now], but figur[ing] out what makes great esport. So, that is the journey we're on. I think we may find as we look forward through the year. I actually think that what we're making is, the racer wants to make his career out of esport and it's the best resources in esport. And we may have some switchover but we have professional racers coming to esport, but I think that would be more of a curiosity than the goal of either. I think we develop in our [own] ways."