Started by Gabriel Souza (@gabriel_s) ·
the Gran Turismo players who became real racing drivers
Nissan and PlayStation ran a competition that took the fastest Gran Turismo players, put them through a driver boot camp, and raced them for real. The first winner, Lucas Ordóñez, finished second in class at Le Mans in 2011. Jann Mardenborough got an LMP2 class podium there in 2013.
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How I got here
- Started with
- Can you go from a racing game to real racing?
- Ended at
- Sim racing
The Trail
- “gt academy drivers who made it to le mans” (google.com)
- GT Academy (en.wikipedia.org)
- Lucas Ordóñez (en.wikipedia.org)
- Jann Mardenborough (en.wikipedia.org)
the one the 2023 movie is about
- Gran Turismo (film) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sim racing (en.wikipedia.org)
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