The trailer for “Gran Turismo” – the feature film adapted from the popular PlayStation video game racing simulation franchise created by Polyphony Digital and Kazunori Yamauchi in 1997 – has been released. Directed by Neill Blomkamp [“District 9” and “Elysium”], it is based on the true story of British teenager Jann Mardenborough, who – via […]
The competition in the GT Academy has begun for 2015. Online qualifiers for the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy is available to all “Gran Turismo 6” video game players, available only on Sony PlayStation3. GT Academy 2015 is made up of four rounds. A new round will open every two weeks. All events will close on […]
Six years ago, Lucas Ordonez was playing the Gran Turismo video game and winning the GT Academy competition for that year. Although he has raced at LeMans before, now he will be racing at LeMans in the top category in one of Nissan’s prototypes. Watch Ordonez’s reaction after Nissan’s director of motorsports surprised him with […]
With two laps remaining in the 2015 Bathurst 12 Hours endurance race in Australia, the Nissan GTR driven by Katsumasa Chiyo blew by both an Audi and a Bentley in winning easily at the finish line. The Nissan GTR team also consisted of Florian Strauss and Wolfgang Reip – both of whom are graduates of […]
Red Bull Racing has signed 2011 GT Academy Jann Mardenborough to their driver development program and have assigned him to the Arden International GP3 team which won the GP3 driver’s title last year with Daniil Kyvat at the helm. Mardenborough, who is 22, began playing the Sony PlayStation racing simulator video game Gran Turismo 5 […]