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ZilviaBot · 09-08-2008, 10:10 PM

09-06-2008 06:39 AM

Filed under: Motorsports, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Supercars, Nissan, Toys, Lifestyle

First art imitates life and now video games do the same, with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Nissan having joined forces to create the GT Academy. Over the course of eight months, the academy culled a group of wannabe racers from a field of entrants who posted the best lap times in GT5 Prologue. Then, for five days at Silverstone, the finalists competed in the game and on the actual track, watched by ex-F1 racer Johnny Herbert and a panel of five judges.

The two winners were just announced, and Top Gun status went to Lars Schlomer and Luis Ordonez. Schlomer is a taxi driver in Bonn, Germany; Ordonez is an MBA student from Spain. Now that they've won, they'll be thrown into boot camp for four months to learn to how to race for real silver: in four months, they'll have to earn their racing licenses and get ready to drive a factory-backed Nissan 350Z in the 24 Hours of Dubai this coming January.The rest of us will have to be content with GT5 Prologue for now...

[Source: Sony]

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Dutchmalmiss · 09-08-2008, 10:42 PM

Son of a bitch, no one realizes how jealous I am. hahah

blackrms13 · 09-08-2008, 10:49 PM

damn, i knew i should have spend more time playing GT5...ahha

jk
i dont even have a ps3

Dutchmalmiss · 09-09-2008, 12:05 AM

It's not like we could have even tried. This was a Europe only event.

xplicit240 · 09-09-2008, 09:12 AM

Damn euros!

ryguy · 09-09-2008, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Dutchmalmiss

It's not like we could have even tried. This was a Europe only event.

I was going to say, I have been playing prologue and I didn't see anything about that. They need to do that here damnit!

spartanic · 09-22-2008, 11:22 PM

That sucks. Hopefully they have a US event soon. I better start sharpening up my Prologue skills.

09-08-2008, 10:10 PM	#1
ZilviaBot Zilvia.net Bot Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 199 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Sony picks GT Academy winners to race in Dubai 24 Hours 09-06-2008 06:39 AM Filed under: Motorsports, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Supercars, Nissan, Toys, Lifestyle First art imitates life and now video games do the same, with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Nissan having joined forces to create the GT Academy. Over the course of eight months, the academy culled a group of wannabe racers from a field of entrants who posted the best lap times in GT5 Prologue. Then, for five days at Silverstone, the finalists competed in the game and on the actual track, watched by ex-F1 racer Johnny Herbert and a panel of five judges. The two winners were just announced, and Top Gun status went to Lars Schlomer and Luis Ordonez. Schlomer is a taxi driver in Bonn, Germany; Ordonez is an MBA student from Spain. Now that they've won, they'll be thrown into boot camp for four months to learn to how to race for real silver: in four months, they'll have to earn their racing licenses and get ready to drive a factory-backed Nissan 350Z in the 24 Hours of Dubai this coming January.The rest of us will have to be content with GT5 Prologue for now... [Source: Sony] Â* ReadÂ\|ÂPermalink \| Email this \| Comments More...

09-08-2008, 10:42 PM	#2
Dutchmalmiss Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Socal (323) Age: 35 Posts: 3,475 Trader Rating: (13) Feedback Score: 13 reviews	Son of a bitch, no one realizes how jealous I am. hahah __________________ Pignose, biaaatch.

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blackrms13 Post Whore! Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: 626 Posts: 2,591 Trader Rating: (21) Feedback Score: 21 reviews	damn, i knew i should have spend more time playing GT5...ahha jk i dont even have a ps3 __________________ 91' 240sx Fastback LE

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Dutchmalmiss Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Socal (323) Age: 35 Posts: 3,475 Trader Rating: (13) Feedback Score: 13 reviews	It's not like we could have even tried. This was a Europe only event. __________________ Pignose, biaaatch.

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xplicit240 Zilvia Addict Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Weird NJ! Age: 37 Posts: 723 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Damn euros! __________________

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spartanic Leaky Injector Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Minnesota Age: 39 Posts: 86 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	That sucks. Hopefully they have a US event soon. I better start sharpening up my Prologue skills. __________________

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