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<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag">Motorsports</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/" rel="tag">Coupes</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag">Sports/GTs</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/etc/" rel="tag">Etc.</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/marketing-advertising/" rel="tag">Marketing/Advertising</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/supercars/" rel="tag">Supercars</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag">Nissan</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toys/" rel="tag">Toys</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/lifestyle/" rel="tag">Lifestyle</a></p><a href="http://www.newspress.co.uk/DAILY_LINKS/arc_sep_2008/55961nis.htm"><img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/gtr_acad_winners.jpg"></a><br><br>First art imitates life and now video games do the same, with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Nissan having joined forces to create the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/06/gt-academy-competition-to-put-gt5-prologue-player-in-real-race/">GT Academy</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.silverstone.co.uk/php/home.html">Silverstone</a>, the finalists competed in the game and on the actual track, watched by ex-F1 racer Johnny Herbert and a panel of five judges. <br><br>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...<br><br>[Source: <a href="http://www.newspress.co.uk/DAILY_LINKS/arc_sep_2008/55961nis.htm">Sony</a>]<p style="clear:both;padding:8px 0 0 0;height:2px;font-size:1px;border:0;margin:0;padding:0">Â*</p><p><a href="http://www.newspress.co.uk/DAILY_LINKS/arc_sep_2008/55961nis.htm">Read</a>Â*|Â*<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/06/sony-picks-gt-academy-winners-to-race-in-dubai-24-hours/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1304479/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/06/sony-picks-gt-academy-winners-to-race-in-dubai-24-hours/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p><hr>
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<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag">Motorsports</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/" rel="tag">Coupes</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag">Sports/GTs</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/etc/" rel="tag">Etc.</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/marketing-advertising/" rel="tag">Marketing/Advertising</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/supercars/" rel="tag">Supercars</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag">Nissan</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toys/" rel="tag">Toys</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/lifestyle/" rel="tag">Lifestyle</a></p><a href="http://www.newspress.co.uk/DAILY_LINKS/arc_sep_2008/55961nis.htm"><img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/gtr_acad_winners.jpg"></a><br><br>First art imitates life and now video games do the same, with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Nissan having joined forces to create the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/06/gt-academy-competition-to-put-gt5-prologue-player-in-real-race/">GT Academy</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.silverstone.co.uk/php/home.html">Silverstone</a>, the finalists competed in the game and on the actual track, watched by ex-F1 racer Johnny Herbert and a panel of five judges. <br><br>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...<br><br>[Source: <a href="http://www.newspress.co.uk/DAILY_LINKS/arc_sep_2008/55961nis.htm">Sony</a>]<p style="clear:both;padding:8px 0 0 0;height:2px;font-size:1px;border:0;margin:0;padding:0">Â*</p><p><a href="http://www.newspress.co.uk/DAILY_LINKS/arc_sep_2008/55961nis.htm">Read</a>Â*|Â*<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/06/sony-picks-gt-academy-winners-to-race-in-dubai-24-hours/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1304479/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/06/sony-picks-gt-academy-winners-to-race-in-dubai-24-hours/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p><hr>
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