Before there was Neill Blomkamp and his Gran Turismo movie, there was GT Academy, the show that really asked what happens when you put gamers behind the wheel.
up when it was rolled out back during the PlayStation 3 era: Supposedly more than 1 million players ended up downloading the in-game qualifying content for, which tasked them with setting the fastest possible laps on a variety of real-life courses. As depicted in the film, those who set the fastest times were invited to further rounds of competition, eventually ending up at a week-long “Race Camp” whose eventual winner would get a spot in Nissan’s Driver Development Program.
Gran Turismothe movie, depicts Mardenborough as the first winner of the program, he was actually the third, following in the footsteps of previous winner, who had a multi-year career as a professional driver after getting his start with a controller in his hands. And so would many more who came after both of them: Not everyone who made it through the program, which ran from 2008 to 2016, went on to international driving stardom.
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