“Celebrity” Laps From the GT5 Demo

Gran Turismo 5 December 21st, 2009 by Jordan

lucas_ordonez-with-yamauchiBefore the Gran Turismo 5 Time Trial Demo was released to the public, it was open to a few members of the press and special VIPs involved with the GT series. While their hot laps and replays were taken offline when the leader boards were reset, they live on thanks to more videos via TaxiGamer. Below you’ll find clips of Kazunori Yamauchi and the first GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordonez. Six-time WRC champion Sebastian Loeb was also spotted in the rankings, though I can’t find any video footage of his lap at the moment. If you have it, please share the link below!

Kazunori Yamauchi – Normal Car – 1’50.080

Lucas Ordonez – Tuned Car – 1’37.499

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  1. December 26th, 2009 at 3:15 pm - #
    Umpa

    USA and Japan best??? lol, I don’t know rest of countries but spain any in top 100 is in the 1:35 with the tuned

  2. December 24th, 2009 at 9:23 am - #
    pegaz2507

    This is all BULLSHIT! We want to see a new trailer, new cars, new damage models, PD should know this! This demo is starting to get boring, we want a feature list in GT5, information about the game, cmon PD cmon! WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 5 YEARS!

  3. December 23rd, 2009 at 9:01 am - #
    Ryan

    the US competetion is stiff,ive seen all countries and japan and usa has the best times.im in 112th place with a 137.682 and 150.354 and i’m using a six axis controller.it’s possible to do a 135. and 147. which are the fastest times.

  4. December 22nd, 2009 at 8:08 pm - #
    GTDriver

    Wow! very nice. Man, those graphics are sweeeet!!
    I assume the saved replays have upgraded graphics compared to ingame graphics?

  5. December 21st, 2009 at 6:00 pm - #
    NS

    Rod, I agree with you that is a matter of luck….

  6. December 21st, 2009 at 4:11 pm - #
    Rod

    Not hard to get such times with a $1,000 steering wheel:) BTW getting a low lap time is luck. It only becomes skill when you can pull that low time every lap!

  7. December 21st, 2009 at 2:59 pm - #
    Bank Alexander

    Haha, yay Loeb is playing!
    But he’s already a WRC pro ;)

  8. December 21st, 2009 at 1:35 pm - #
    brettjr25

    Oh snap! That’s Kazunori, PSN!! I’m adding him!

  9. December 21st, 2009 at 1:13 pm - #
    Shmoo

    Interesting. I’m sure I’m not the only one who is perpetually curious to see how real racing drivers do in a sim. Anybody seen the Best Motoring where Gan-San plays GT4 and drives straight off the track?

    Whats not interesting: a bunch of attention deprived kids posting their mediocre lap times in article comments. If we wanted to know we would look at the leader boards, so cut it out.

  10. December 21st, 2009 at 11:28 am - #
    VIPERGTSR01

    K-Yamauchi and Lucas Ordonez’s times are still on the leaderboards.

    Would love to see Sebastian Loebs lap.

  11. December 21st, 2009 at 11:12 am - #
    newbielives

    Would love to see the times of Loeb

  12. December 21st, 2009 at 10:32 am - #
    Hellenic_Force

    God I can’t drive with the sixaxis… I did 1.39 tuned and 1.52 normal… I wish I had a Logitech G25! Santa can’t you hear me???

  13. December 21st, 2009 at 9:15 am - #
    Khlad

    Check out the GT webside, you can see top 250 in normal and tuned car all over the world. I think the hottest lap with both cars together is someone from Japan. He got 3’23.464 total, the no. 1 from Germany 3’23.616.

  14. December 21st, 2009 at 8:43 am - #
    tkd4ever

    @senna71

    Press X while the replay is playing.

  15. December 21st, 2009 at 8:42 am - #
    daus26

    Their lap times may not seem all that fast, but I doubt they spent as much time on it as a lot of us. If they do, who knows how fast they can really be. Just look at people improving their times as time passes by. Kaz and Lucas can probably shave their times as well.

  16. December 21st, 2009 at 8:41 am - #
    Wade Leaphart

    Got it down to a 1’49 with the PS3 controller. Can’t wait to hook up the Logitech G27 wheel and turn some laps.

    For those of you who are not eligible for GT Academy, check out http://www.facebook.com/fuelingdreams. Maybe you have what it takes to be The Longshot?!

  17. December 21st, 2009 at 8:31 am - #
    senna71

    How do you get to see in car in your replay. I have not seen it in any of my replays!

  18. December 21st, 2009 at 8:06 am - #
    tameem

    @stradivis

    agreed. in 9 days time it will 2010 and then hopefully PD will start giving us real information about GT5

    cant wait to watch the damage video

  19. December 21st, 2009 at 7:44 am - #
    Gianca

    Hello… nice lap for Lucas but i do better :).. 1.37.2XX in Italy and i’m 52°

  20. December 21st, 2009 at 7:35 am - #
    GTP_Hun

    Neither of those videos refer to the laps recorded on all leaderboards. I was very interested in KY’s video because I have noticed that in the “leaderboard lap” (1.49,453, and the video above shows us a 1.50,080) KY cuts, with all 4 wheels off the track, the last corner before entering the “normal circuit”. Shame, shame, mr. Kaz, a very bad example for all online gamers and all the world to see.