GT Academy 2012 Rumoured – Coming in March?
The brakes have barely cooled down on the GT Academy Dubai 24hr team‘s Nissan 370Z, but it seems GT Academy 2012 may be just round the corner – at least for the Europeans.
An article reporting on the impending event was spotted in the Dutch language magazine “AutoNews” and it will apparently be following a familiar format. Entrants from 12 European countries will be eligible to take part – not all of the countries are specifically named, but Belgium, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands are included.
Initially there will be a time trial to be launched in March, with the top 20 eligible players from each country being invited to a local national finals – the article names Spa-Francorchamps as one finals venue. 20 qualifiers in total will then be invited to attend a 6 day long final selection process, once again being held at Silverstone, with the winner being given the ultimate prize of a seat in the 2013 Dubai 24hr race.
With the time trial event being at least a full month away, there’s plenty of time to get some practice in and become the next Gamer-to-Racer in Sony/Nissan’s already successful, world-champion breeding GT Academy program!
Thanks to Manuelos for the tip and translation!
GT5 Photomode image courtesy of ceiling_fan.
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January 27th, 2012 at 3:19 pm - #Tintorera
There are 50 sovreign states in Europe. 18 is listed on the Official GT Country selector. Only 12 of these are eligible for GT academy! I realt hope one day we all can compete in these events
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January 27th, 2012 at 3:12 pm - #Lord Grey
Here is some info on the German version, piped through Google’s translation function into English:
There is a comment in there reading, “The GT Academy 2012 will be even more global.” I don’t know if that means North America will be included, but I’m hoping it will be.
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January 27th, 2012 at 9:55 am - #NissanGTRspecV
That is a very cool picture
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January 27th, 2012 at 9:47 am - #ICEYOU
7-TIME F1 CHAMPION
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January 27th, 2012 at 9:10 am - #Timppaq
Ah I see, thanks for the info Zocker :tup:
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January 27th, 2012 at 9:11 am - #Timppaq
So it’s Germany + 12 other countries?
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January 27th, 2012 at 8:13 am - #zocker_16
There has been some official News on the German Playstation Blog last week.
Germany will have their own Academy and one seat at the 24 hours of Dubai 2012.
The Timetrails will start on March 10th.
It looks like there will be several Academys in different regions and the winners of each will get together in one car at Dubai.-
January 27th, 2012 at 8:28 am - #zocker_16
Sry its *Dubai 2013*
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January 27th, 2012 at 8:06 am - #mrclep
nice
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January 27th, 2012 at 6:48 am - #SvenB1984
Cool! Just yesterday playing online, talked about when the next GT-Academy might be arriving. Hope we didn’t start this al. Probably not :o)
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January 27th, 2012 at 4:47 am - #DustDriver
At least I have a driver’s license now. Last time they were in Belgium i failed the exam a couple of days before the national final.
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January 27th, 2012 at 12:04 am - #theArmourKing
and to Ukraine;)!
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January 26th, 2012 at 11:29 pm - #37kazzmark
2013? The worlds going to end on the 12/12/12 I’m pretty sure :p
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January 26th, 2012 at 11:20 pm - #BlackIce90
Please bring GT Academy to Canada!!
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January 27th, 2012 at 10:26 pm - #onewayroll
+1
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January 26th, 2012 at 10:59 pm - #alexgontijo
I hope someday the South American’s have a chance. Brazil hosts the best drivers in the world, and we have Argentina with great tradition too.
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February 3rd, 2012 at 11:56 pm - #Gerchu
I hope that too!
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January 26th, 2012 at 10:35 pm - #GlobeKIDD
:( They need to have a WORLD challenge, not just a location challenge. This lessens the chance of anyone winning, yes, but it also brings out THE VERY BEST
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January 26th, 2012 at 10:32 pm - #white2abbit
CANADA!
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January 26th, 2012 at 10:21 pm - #A_Higher_Place
Canada deserves a chance !
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January 26th, 2012 at 10:29 pm - #FdkVeilside
i know right? gotta love how its called north america even though the rules clearly state the entrants must be citizens of the states
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January 27th, 2012 at 4:27 am - #NJ72
ask a canadian any other time of the year if they are american and they’ll kill on sight, but as soon as they can’t do something the americans can do it’s “well, we’re practically american eh!” haha
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January 26th, 2012 at 8:48 pm - #DILUSI
damn,,North Americans would like to be apart of this.
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January 26th, 2012 at 10:17 pm - #FdkVeilside
damn, Canadians would like to be part of what PD calls “North American”
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January 26th, 2012 at 8:24 pm - #zr1chris
Those damn cheaters probably lost all credibility for the US.
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January 27th, 2012 at 1:00 am - #R1600Turbo
US hasn’t been announced yet.
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January 26th, 2012 at 8:12 pm - #ZDUPH
Dang hopefully they include a new GT Academy car like the red and white GT Academy 370Z with all the fancy logos. Make the number changeable too unlike the GT-R Academy SPECIAL.
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January 27th, 2012 at 2:29 am - #Bom15
+1. Still hoping they put the Signature edition SLS model in game to.
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Can’t wait to see who the next gamer becoming a real race driver will be.