Another Exciting Weekend for GT Academy Graduate Jann Mardenborough
While the rest of us wait for GT Academy to start next month, the winners of previous academies continue to make their names in world motorsports and demonstrate the success of the GT Academy program.
This weekend it’s the turn of the newest graduate Jann Mardenborough. This year Jann will be competing in the Pro-Am category of the Blancpain Endurance Series, paired with Alex Buncombe and Chris Ward, in the RJN Motorsports Nissan GT-R GT3 #35. The first race of the season is at Monza this weekend, however the team face a tricky battle having qualified the car 38th of the 56 car field following a heavily interrupted 3rd qualifying session.
Jann has already had race time in the car, as he and Alex are entered in the Avon Tyres British GT Championship too (in GT3 class). At a rain-dominated meeting at Oulton Park last weekend, the pair managed to qualify 4th and finish 5th in race one while qualifying 10th and finishing 11th in race two. The pair are joint seventh in the championship following the weekend’s racing and will return to action in that series on 17th May at the Nürburgring.
The 3 hour Monza race starts at 12.15 GMT/UTC on Sunday 15th April with live timing available through the official site.
Images courtesy of BritishGT.com
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April 18th, 2012 at 8:01 pm - #Quakebass
Thank you, kind sir.
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April 17th, 2012 at 1:05 pm - #young car joc
Seriously. It’s been 4 and a half months since the last dlc. What is this?
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April 17th, 2012 at 7:41 pm - #Quakebass
no, its been exactly 3 months, and the last DLC was a month early. If it comes out within he next 3 days, it’ll still pretty much be on time.
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April 16th, 2012 at 5:40 pm - #IRONBULL
Congrads to winning racers. Maybe they can tell the sorry, lazy, good-for-nothing folks at PD to pay some attention to the game they created that sponsors the racers in these international sporting events.
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April 16th, 2012 at 7:30 pm - #Quakebass
Seriously, what’s crawled up your bum and died?
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April 18th, 2012 at 10:56 am - #m8h3r
PD have done weekly updates for their game for about 1 and a half years now, how can you call them lazy and say they pay no attention to their game?
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April 18th, 2012 at 12:14 pm - #Quakebass
I wouldn’t say WEEKLY, but they have given this game more updates than any other I’ve played. Sure it may be due to the fact that the game was unfinished, but it’s pretty obvious that they care about it still.
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April 15th, 2012 at 5:55 pm - #Youngun
Quiet can be taken 2 ways, 1. nothing coming and there working on new things (unlikely) 2. Big DLC with bells and whistles attached so it will be a big surprise. im wishing anyway. unlucky jann
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April 15th, 2012 at 11:21 pm - #Quakebass
Or, 3, PD is being extra quiet due to the last DLC being leaked extra early.
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April 15th, 2012 at 2:16 pm - #GTstevieboy
Toyota2jz, well said buddy
Yes, Kaz and PD are quiet at the moment. This is very frustrating for ALL of us. Fact.
Haters, please stop moaning about it, it’s boring now! ;p
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April 15th, 2012 at 1:46 pm - #Toyota2jz
GT6 GT6 GT6… Tired of people saying GT6 all the time. GT5 still has a long way to go. I reckon PD should work on both GT5 & GT6 equally. Yes they can improve GT5 more. The people who are going crazy over GT6, why are you bothered with DLC then? Why not just wait a few years until GT6 comes out….
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April 15th, 2012 at 5:34 pm - #Quakebass
PD’s already working on GT6, and has been since before GT5 came out (I’m not sure HOW long before). I reckon most of PD’s workforce is working on GT6… But I do hope we get continued support for GT5, as long as it doesn’t hamper GT6′s development in any way. I don’t really understand the people asking about GT6 right now anyways… It’s obviously a few years off, and likely will be on the next iteration of the Playstation… (PS4, PS: Orbis, whatever it’s being called now…). They should be asking about DLC, but I’m getting annoyed with the over dramatics; its almost like they’re “threatening” PD to get them to release the DLC… which, obviously will NOT work.
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April 15th, 2012 at 1:41 pm - #Tomeggyilkos
drive a car like this in real life ummm would be sweet :)
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April 15th, 2012 at 11:17 am - #NunoRocha
34th i guess =/
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April 15th, 2012 at 11:13 am - #NunoRocha
oopps, not 32th even worst
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April 15th, 2012 at 11:12 am - #NunoRocha
Finished 32th… bad luck at the end, They were great
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April 15th, 2012 at 11:11 am - #teppischfresser
Jann was going to finish 15, but broke in the last corner
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April 15th, 2012 at 10:35 am - #IRONBULL
Yeah wow this is nice. I wonder if PD will put this type of support behind some DLC. Nah nevermind who needs a 60buck ps1/2/3 GT5 game when I can just keep tuning in for other peoples GT sponsored news.
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April 15th, 2012 at 10:32 am - #topolino
very exciting (not 4 me)….. so can we have some news about the GAME NAO!!!
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April 15th, 2012 at 1:20 pm - #Mac K
Please don’t be serious..
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April 15th, 2012 at 10:30 am - #mykem
Down to 13th at the moment after a pitstop (with 42 minutes to go). A very respectable position in the field of 55 cars. On a different note- so far the McLaren GTs have proven to be total duds :)
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April 15th, 2012 at 10:23 am - #NunoRocha
Go Jann, Your are going nice 7th at the moment.
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April 15th, 2012 at 9:17 am - #sanesh21
Good luck Jann !
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April 15th, 2012 at 3:09 am - #GTPmrpotsworth
Hmm still no DLC news
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April 15th, 2012 at 1:54 am - #VspecZR1GT2RS89
Liking the GTR GT3 now. Good luck to Jann and the rest of the team tomorrow.
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April 14th, 2012 at 8:37 pm - #MadmuppGT
Maybe we could fit in one more GT-R into future DLC I think… :P
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April 15th, 2012 at 12:41 pm - #ironman44321
>:( No.
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April 14th, 2012 at 8:18 pm - #hazellnut134
Nooo! My dad had to cancel sky to save money… Now I can’t watch it :(
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Looks like it was a great race for RJN. To be one of only two non-euro cars in the field, it would have been easy to spot them!
I would like to see these comments remain on topic though…villifying PD and Kaz in every post doesn’t make for worthwhile reading, and quite honestly is just ignored. Stay on topic, or go to the forums to post a topic “the DLC is late, and I’m irate”. Form your own mob there, instead of trying to recruit everywhere else.