GT Academy Graduates Face a Challenging Weekend
Following Jordan Tresson’s disappointing season-opener in the Sebring 12 Hour race two weeks ago, two more GT Academy graduates are involved in their own race series debuts this weekend.
As reported earlier in the month, Bryan Heitkotter will be making his first Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge start this afternoon at the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama. Bryan is paired with Nissan veteran BJ Zacharias in the Doran Motorsports Nissan 370Z and the pair have qualified 11th on the grid for the race later today. You can find live timing at the official Grand-Am website, a live stream on Speed2 and the race highlights are to be shown on Speed on April 8th.
Meanwhile at Paul Ricard in France, Lucas Ordoñez will be competing in the European Le Mans Series Castellet 6 Hour race. This starts at midday GMT on Sunday and the Greaves Motorsport team’s Zytek Nissan LMP2, driven by Lucas, Tom Kimber-Smith and Alex Brundle, is 3rd on the grid for the race. This event will be carried live on Radio Le Mans and various regional television channels and services.
GTPlanet wishes the best of luck to the graduates this weekend!
Images courtesy of lucasordonez.com and grand-am.com
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April 1st, 2012 at 3:35 pm - #obsessive rules
Oh noz
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April 1st, 2012 at 9:12 am - #SOUL ON D3LAY
Bryan crashed on the first corner on the first lap (I was at the race)
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April 1st, 2012 at 1:34 am - #silverstar189
It would be nice if some of the GT academy drivers cars were added to the game, like the Le Mans Series car from last year.
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April 1st, 2012 at 2:45 am - #SimonK
It’s baffling how they have this obsession with Nissan yet instead of adding new and unique models like Lucas’ LMP2 car we get another GTR instead.
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April 1st, 2012 at 6:13 am - #Tvensky
well you have to understand making another GT-R is a lot faster and easier than making 100% new car, since GT5 have premium GT-R. Sometimes I dont get PD either but nothing is perfect..
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April 1st, 2012 at 9:20 am - #SimonK
Right but when did the LMP2 car debut? March 2011 I believe, plenty of time to model it.
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April 1st, 2012 at 2:22 pm - #counter345
It takes 2 years to model each car. So if you’ve got 100 employees, that’s 100 cars every 2 years. But it’s still 2 years for a car.
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April 1st, 2012 at 9:56 pm - #GT55YW
hey counter, that is WAY inaccurate. The longest it could take one person to completely make a brand new vehicle is over estimated at 9 months. Quoting Kaz.
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March 31st, 2012 at 11:45 pm - #yzfmike
How come GTPlanet does not mention other GT Academy Finalist that are racing? I understand he did not win it all, but it would be nice to follow anyone who’s moved up from gamer to driver. The video at this link mentions one driving for a Porsche team at Sebring. Sean Johnston is not being followed at all.
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April 1st, 2012 at 4:23 am - #Famine
With four GT Academy competitions having been held, there’s nearly 80 gamers to keep track of and anyone who hasn’t won GT Academy has not had a route into driving through GT Academy – GT Academy is the news we’re covering.
In our Motorsports forum there is a thread by R1600Turbo that covers all known racers who were also GT Academy finalists. Sean is included.
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March 31st, 2012 at 8:39 pm - #Flaco13
@ A_HIGHER_PLACE try live.tv for streams
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March 31st, 2012 at 8:37 pm - #Flaco13
aw man, i really wanted to see Bryan in action, what happened???
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March 31st, 2012 at 8:02 pm - #Phouchg
Wonder why they withdrew..
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March 31st, 2012 at 7:30 pm - #another_jakhole
Best of luck Bryan!
I wonder what Jann’s busy doing…
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April 1st, 2012 at 9:36 am - #TECHNIKRS4
You’ll be hearing about my adventures soon. :)
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March 31st, 2012 at 6:45 pm - #Blessorship
Any word on why Zacharias/Heitkotter did not start the race?
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March 31st, 2012 at 6:57 pm - #btcanon
Looks like they Qualified 11th and then withdrew. No reason listed.
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March 31st, 2012 at 6:02 pm - #btcanon
They are a DNS, beginning to think that the GT Academy grads may have a bit of a curse following them.
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March 31st, 2012 at 5:41 pm - #ps3finest
Good luck Bryan and Lucas! I will see about watching these races.
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March 31st, 2012 at 5:38 pm - #spikeyhairdude
Good luck guys
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March 31st, 2012 at 5:38 pm - #A_Higher_Place
Cool stuff! Too bad there’s no free live stream online of either.
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I want that Signatech Nissan LMP in the game NOW. I don’t care if I have to pay for it. :)