It’s Friday, and that means it’s time for another new episode of GT Academy 2014 on Spike TV, airing tonight at 11:30pm Eastern Time. First, though: let’s catch up on last week’s Episode 2, which you can see above.
There was as surprising bit of drama between the contestants, after what looked like a very fun session in some head-to-head, off-road, dirt buggy racing. Breylon Lawrence-Williams found himself in hot water after a dangerous on-track maneuver, and it didn’t sit will with his fellow contestants… Watch the full episode above to see how it eventually played out.
Finalist and GTPlanet member Donald Aarseth (@scca_ziptie) has published an extensive behind-the-scenes writeup describing what it’s actually like to be on the show; it’s an interesting read, and offers important information for anyone hoping to be in Race Camp next year.
Once again, finalist Tommy Gontkof is hosting a special viewing party just outside of Baltimore, Maryland, complete with a GT6 racing competition, door prizes, and a fundraiser for the Armed Forces Foundation. Enjoy the show!
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Wow… I didn’t think I would actually be into this… Exciting stuff! I’m hooked!
They should give the first day at Silverstone people more time. It isn’t right some people get eliminated on certain performances as early as they do and it really should be more of a “are you gooder/better at racing than everyone else even though you can’t do a triathlon/”quadrathlon” sort of thing.
It’s disappointing that it’s conducted this way since the beginning with a change here and there.
It was made to seem different this time around with a week or so before an elimination and about a month or so (I believe that’s how it was worded) before the champion was named. It could have been in other parts of the world, but it wasn’t. It’s just really unfortunate that they and the finalists aren’t given an honest analysis or… try.
Whoops.
I meant to type, “it really shouldn’t be more of…”.
Woah. It’s just like this competition. One mistake when you’re hauling ass, and you’re behind the rest of them.
WAIT.
I was right the first time.
Or was I?
Another_jakhole, there are several driving test prior to the first eliminations that aren’t part of the TV show. No one went home based soley on physical performances.
Lol, I understand, and I completely agree… The mini-challenges should not get people disqualified. They should be used to give people immunity, or perks in each knock-out/preliminary competition.
The TV show is just a complete joke IMO.
They show double the candidates battling it out, then onto Silverstone as the finalists. I don’t know as much as you do, so can you elaborate? I honestly hate how swift the eliminations appear and would like someone to elaborate on how the eliminations are dealt with if they’re not the way they appear to be, which looks COMPLETELY unfair.
Doodle, I concur.
Which is why I wonder…
To elaborate just a bit on driving before the first eliminations…
This all took place before the first eliminations: Drive 370’s around Stowe, Drive GT-R’s around International Circuit, Drive Caterham 7’s around an autocross course practicing car control and understanding of how to manipulate the balance of the car, Drive open wheel cars around Stowe. All the while being meticulously watched over for any and all skills in the car, and they have timing devices in EVERYTHING. Being that this is a TV show and the Judges don’t really have much time to make a decision, I think the driving we did leading up to the first eliminations gave them plenty of data to go over.
And to be clear on the amount of time in the cars.
6 laps around Stowe in the 370’s
12 laps around Stowe in the Open Wheelers
3 laps around International in the GT-R’s
3 laps around the autocross track in the Caterhams
lots of donuts around a cone in the Caterhams! lol this was awesome!
Again, everyone got to do this all before the Quadrathalon.
At first glance of the home page, I thought they added off-road buggy racing to GT6.
Interesting…
I really would like that. I watched this episode yesterday and didn’t wonder why GT doesn’t have (dune) buggies. Karting could have been implemented much better, so maybe now with the Community section in GT6 there should be something for them. With that said, bring on the buggies PD! That would be great.