But this year the race on Saturday 4 April will have a greater national impact than at any time in its 181-year history. experts at The Telegraph have been having their say. © Copyright 2020 | Inspired Entertainment, Inc. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has selected Tiger Roll, rugby columnist Will Greenwood is backing Beware the Bear and cricket expert Michael Vaughan is going for Yala Enki. Who would prevail if Red Rum and Tiger Roll faced off over the 30 daunting Grand National fences?We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Cause of Causes won the inaugural Virtual Grand National in 2017 and then came a close second in the real race hours later. These charities contribute £1 million a day to support the NHS.In addition to the Virtual Grand National 2020, ITV1 will also feature a Grand National Race of Champions, featuring legendary winners of the race doing battle in a separate computer simulation. The Virtual Grand National and Race of Champions have been developed with Inspired Entertainment’s Manchester based animation team. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you have accepted. Taking centre stage: the Virtual Grand National gets underway on Saturday at 5pmTrue to life: state-of-the-art CGI is used to make the race as realistic as possible In 2018 it selected six of only 12 finishers and the winner’.Richard Pitman, Aintree personality and near-winner on Crisp, will be alongside Alice Plunkett of ITV Racing as Nick Luck guides viewers through this unique TV format.The 2019 Panel of Experts includes Bob Champion who famously won on Aldaniti, winning trainer Lucinda Russell, winning jockey Liam Treadwell and Lydia Hislop who has pitted her knowledge against the computer for the past three years.The broadcast music legend (TOTP, The White Room; The Tube; Bowie at the Beeb) Chris Cowey directs for the third year with award winning Mark Alderton producing.Creator of the concept Rob McLoughlin (VGN created with Inspired Entertainment) is Executive Producer with John Moulson and Peter Eaton, whose family won with Amberleigh House, is the Programme Consultant. The champions race will offer an answer to the kind of hypothetical debate horse racing fans love. Tiger Roll is set to defend his unique position as the first ever horse to do the ‘double’ by winning The Virtual Grand National and hours later claiming victory in The Randox Health Grand National, both at Aintree and both over the most famous jumps on the planet.The ‘Tiger’ claimed success in the 2018 races in almost identical circumstances – a close finish on the virtual outing, driven by sophisticated CGI technology and algorithms – and then in a dramatic photo finish on Grand National Day.‘The result was unbelievable’ said Virtual Race commentator Stewart Machin, who will return for a third year running to call the 2019 Virtual Grand National on ITV;‘Is this every punters dream – to tell the world hours in advance who will win?’‘The winner of the first ever Virtual Grand National, Cause of Causes in 2017, came second in the real race hours later and almost won both races, but Tiger Roll was exceptional in the real and virtual worlds and it was uncanny how close the computer came to getting the finish so correct’.‘We’re now keen to see if the simulation can continue its remarkable run for a third year straight and attempt to show the experts how it’s done once again’Nick Luck once again hosts the sixty-minute special from the innovative Carm Productions led by former Granada Executive Rob McLoughlin.The field features favourites or joint favourites – a position – which doesn’t always guarantee success and will include the Aintree favourite Red Rum beaten in last year’s battle by L’Escargot.‘Last year’s result was breathtaking’ said Steve Rogers of Inspired, ‘We were in disbelief for days afterwards. And the British public is being urged to join them and have some fun with the race and support the NHS on Saturday.The Virtual Grand National, now in its fourth year, uses state-of-the-art CGI to make it as realistic as possible, while sophisticated algorithms determine each runner’s chance of winning based on performances in previous races and how they jump and interact with other horses. And already a top team of (non-racing!) The races stand out on their own as sport and entertainment even without the extra ingredient of attempting to tell the nation where their favourite may finish.’‘In 2017 the algorithm came up with six of the top ten finishers and the runner-up in the real race won The Virtual Grand National.

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