Online qualifiers for the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy has opened and is available to all “Gran Turismo 6” players, available only on PlayStation3. GT Academy 2015 is made up of four rounds. A new round will open every two weeks. All events will close on June 16, 2015 – but events can be entered at […]
Gran Turismo’s GT Academy graduate, Lucas Ordonez, has been given a driver’s seat for Nissan’s LMP1 entry at the 2015 LeMans. Watch Ordonez’s reaction as he is surprised by Nissan’s motorsport director telling him the good news…
A pair of graduates of Gran Turismo’s GT Academy racing program have won the 2015 version of the Bathurst 12 Hours endurance race in Australia. Katsumasa Chiyo passed both a Bentley and an Audi in the final two laps with his Nissan GTR to claim the victory for the team which included Florian Strauss and […]
The GT Academy team – consisting of five racers who began as gamers in the Gran Turismo video game series – brought home real results with a second place finish in their class at the Dubai 24 Hour endurance race this week. The team raced a Nissan GT-R and beat the majority of the competition […]
If Gran Turismo ever needs to defend the use of its “The Real Driving Simulator” tagline, exhibit A will be Jann Mardenborough. Mardenborough, who learned racing from gaming and broke into the racing world by beating 90,000 other competitors in Nissan and Playstation’s GT Academy in 2011, has entered Red Bull’s driver development program […]