In an unusual twist following on from yesterday’s news that GT Academy is rumoured to be returning to Europe this March, German website Speedmaniacs reports that Germany is to get its own GT Academy for 2012 rather than being part of the European GT Academy. This rather unique situation is corroborated by an article posted on the German PlayStation Blog site.
Both articles give insight into the selection process, with which GT Academy fans and participants will be familiar:
- 1st Stage – 16 drivers to be selected through various “live” competitions, including Auto Mobil International in Liepzig, at the Nürburging 24hr race and at Nissan dealers; 16 further drivers selected through online time trials at an Eifel Course Creator circuit
- 2nd Stage – A 2 day long “finals” tournament at the Nürburgring in July to select 12 finalists
- 3rd Stage – A 5 day long Boot Camp at Silverstone to select the ultimate winner
The sites also name the judges for the Silverstone final as Ring-Taxi driver and previous GT Academy judge Sabine Schmitz, RJN Motorsports team manager Bob Neville and Nissan works GT1 driver Michael Krumm. The final prize will be, as ever, an intensive race training program in GT4 competition using a Nissan 370Z and then a seat for the 2013 Dubai 24hr race on January 12th and 13th 2013.
Unlike previous years, this isn’t a regional eliminator competition, rather a full GT Academy alongside the European GT Academy but independent of it and open only to German nationals.
Thanks to Bernhard Meininger for the tip!
GT5 Photomode image courtesy of Ddrizle.
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Sabine Schmitz >3
:( some one should think about south and central america…we play GT5 over here you know…
Wow 2 days at the ring! Do you have any idea what car fans workd wide would do for that? It sounds absolutely amazing!!!!
So, Silverstone is the next track to bo DLC!? =D
I think limiting the GT Academy to Germany is the best solution if Pody and Sony want a German guy to win it. :-)
It is better than what happened last year when French and Spanish sim racers were selected for the finale even if Lucas and Jordan had won the 2 first GT Ac…. but in an extremely ambigous situation; the staff preferring drivers from other countries to win…
Another GTR for DLC.
Cool
Does anyone have that car and is well to give it away?
Does anyone have the GT academy nissan GTR (the one in the picture) and is willing to give or trade it?
To get that car(GT Academy R35) you just need to pass the super license all gold!
GTACADEMY, Y U NO HELD IN ASIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO THEY REALLY NEED IT I”M WITH PIGBOY FFS
Australia will never be in any competitions.full stop…The asian competitions dont include us because we are classed as EU and we will never be in any EU competition because we are in the asian region…..we are the scum of the earth to anybody who does these competitions.If anybody in Australia can get a comp going GET OFF YA ARSE
GT ACADEMY LATIN AMERICA!!!!???? Someday????? Just to reminder that few of the best drivers in history are from an spanish speaking country…. Soooo what’s going on Nissan and PD??????
Sweet! :D
Think I should participate then…
It is Leipzig not Liepzig. This will be a great challenge!
why only Germany? Aside from that this may prove to bring a good set of drivers.
Sabine Schmitz…
Would. (If its the blonde I’m thinking of lol)
Best of luck to all that part take we will be fallowing from across the pond on GTP!
Might be time for me to go back to the Fatherland lol
I was actually thinking about this before I read this. “I wonder when a German driver will make it big”
Haha, brilliant.
You never hear of a German Driver dominating, nope.
:rollseyes:
Hmmm, does this mean a new GT Academy car coming to GT5? Perhaps an Audi R8 GT Academy Edition or BMW Z4 GT Academy Edition?
I doubt it, but I guess we can only wait and hope,,, for yet another GTR >:0)
GT Academy is Nissan. Nissan is GT Academy. Not a chance of anything else happening, ever.
^ I wouldn’t wave it off as an impossibility, we’ve already seen the collaboration with Mercedes for the Sigiature Edition SLS prize and the fun competition with David Coulthard… could be that GT Acadamy will expand their program with other manufacturers to expand the awareness of the Acadamy in Europe. I also don’t think Nissan can keep handing off new drivers each year to their race teams.
I honestly don’t see it happening. This is a joint collaboration between Nissan and Sony. Nobody else.
GTAcademy Nissan Leaf
go to Ferrari academy if u want something different. You can download the program now.
I agree with the concept but instead of giving an already participating nation it’s own academy why not include ALL of north & south America and giving Oceana an academy too. There is some fast drivers in Canada, Oceana & S. America but we have to sit and watch instead, it’s frustrating.
Considering the immense amount of World Class driver than come from Germany this comes as no surprise to me. On the same note, if there is ever a GT Academy Rally event then Finland should have its own one too.
And Italy? :-(
As it seems Austria, Switzerrrrland and Luxemburg will also particpate (so all german speaking).
As a Luxemburger this would be awesome.
Asked in the blog, awaiting answer :drool:
Germany gets a GT Academy, yet Canada is always left out?! What’s up with that?
Look for the various thread in the forums. There’s a reason they were excluded last year, but Sony is trying to change that.
many countries cant even be registered in PSN and never will compete in GT academy….. :( like new part of the Europe, Baltics.. etc. very sad..
I guess it must be because there are already English, Spanish and French European GT Academy winners, and there should be also a German one… Anyway it’s strange that they restrict the event to one country…
disappoint
damn Germans!
what’s the actual purpose of this decision?
To give someone a chance to become a race car driver? What’s wrong with that?
I mean getting a seperate one….
well, if you check any drivers ranking by nationality it’s perfectly clear that the germans are by far the best racing drivers.
If you remove all nascar related competitions, since those are far from what’s considered racing anywhere else in the world, the US wouldn’t make it to the top20.
Good Luck to the German GTP Members!
This one will be tough. Germans are fast on this game!
Japanese are super fast too – they often have their own (online) room to compete against each other.
Good luck for those who plan on participating!
Hals- und Beinbruch!
This sounds like fun! Best of luck to all German GTP-ers!
Yay