Red Rum, the celebrated three-time winner of the Grand National, will once again jump Becher’s Brook, The Canal Turn and the other famous Aintree fences in an ITV4 production to be screened on the eve of the 2018 race.
The Grand National Race of Champions will see 40 runners and riders from the past compete with their modern day contemporaries using the latest CGI 3D technology and software in part of an hour-long special previewing the 171st running of the Randox Grand National.
Presenter and racing expert Nick Luck will bring viewers the Virtual Grand National, which will see the most likely runners and riders for this year’s 2018 race hours ahead of the ‘off’ using the same technology.
Luck will be joined by Grand National legend Richard Pitman and Alice Plunkett along with a panel of experts who will try to outwit the computer.
In 2017 Cause of Causes won the first Virtual Grand National on ITV and performed exactly how the computer predicted (coming from mid-pack) towards the end of the race to challenge for victory.
The post production was completed at Timeline North at MediaCityUK.
