'Dream Job' on offer for winner of seventh Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition

Nissan and PlayStation have joined forces for a seventh year to offer a 'dream job' to one lucky Gran Turismo gamer. The Nissan PlayStation GT Academy defies convention and opens up the possibility of a career in motor sport to anybody, male or female, that has ever

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Jann Mardenborough joins the British Racing Drivers' Club

The winner of the 2011 Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition, Jann Mardenborough, is now a member of the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC), arguably the most exclusive club in motorsport. This achievement is another nod from the motorsport 'establishment'

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Lucas Ordonez to race Nissan ZEOD RC at Le Mans

Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours LM P2 podium finisher and inaugural Nissan PlayStation GT Academy winner Lucas Ordonez has been confirmed as the first race driver for Nissan's revolutionary ZEOD RC prototype.

The Nissan ZEOD RC will become the first car to complete

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Nissan's next 'Lounge to Le Mans' star ready to race

In recent years GT Academy has become a major chapter in Nissan's Le Mans story. In 2011 Lucas Ordonez, the winner of the first GT Academy competition in 2008, became the first gamer to race at the Le Mans 24 Hours. Lucas set the bar high by taking a podium

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Nissan reveals Le Mans 24 Hours Nismo driver line-up

Nismo Ambassador and Super GT racer Michael Krumm will join GT Academy winners and Nismo Athletes Lucas Ordonez and Jann Mardenborough at the Le Mans 24 Hours next month.

The three drivers will unite to race a Greaves Motorsport Zytek-

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Nissan's racing season gets into gear with new FIA GT Series

The new-for-2013 FIA GT Series gets underway this weekend at Nogaro in France and the Nissan GT Academy Team RJN squad is ready to take its pair of Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 race cars to the limit as they go head to head with the likes

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Mission Motorsport and Nissan ready to do battle at Britcar 24 Hours

The Mission Motorsport team that will take on the 2012 Britcar 24 Hours were on track at Silverstone on Monday making final preparations for this weekend's race. The all-amateur crew took advantage of Nissan's GT Academy instructors to hone their newly acquired

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Racer X shuffles GT Academy finalists

The top 32 of nearly 400,000 Gran Turismo5 online racers met in San Diego July 13 and 14 to determine the 16 contestants that will compete for top honors in the GT Academy North America TV show and forge the start of an on-track racing career.

It was a weekend full of

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Over 830,000 enter Nissan and PlayStation GT Academy online competition

Entry to the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy 2012 qualifying closed last week after more than 830,000 people from the participating European countries had downloaded and played the online qualifying demo. The demo, based on the hugely popular Gran Turismo5

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