Kazunori Yamauchi & Team Take Class Victory at 2011 Nurburgring 24 Hours
Kazunori Yamauchi, the father of Gran Turismo, and his teammates Tobias Schulze, Michael Schulze, and Opera Performance founder Yasuyoshi Yamamoto, finished first-in-class in the 2011 Nurburgring 24 Hours! It was a dramatic race for Team Schulze, who were forced to spend a concerning amount of time in the pits addressing mechanical issues with their race-modified Nissan GT-R.
Despite the setbacks, fast, consistent driving brought the team a class victory, with Kazunori himself bringing the car across the finish line. The team finished 36th overall (official results here), completing 134 laps in 24 hours, 2 minutes, and 26.9 seconds, with a fastest lap time of 9:17.707 around the extended, 24-hour circuit. Congratulations to Yamauchi-san and Schulze Motorsport!
Due to the scale and media coverage of the event, few pictures or videos of the team are available just yet. For now, enjoy this video of the team’s GT-R in action early Sunday morning, captured by YouTuber Mawitu23.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qrUfFpzTd8
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June 27th, 2011 at 11:36 pm - #Madman Apex
kaz being such a nissan/GTR fanboy and nissan sponsoring so many GT events i dont know how on earth there isnt an RM-GTR in GT5; only logic i can think of is that there already are all those from the SuperGT/JGTC… but one more on of so many wouldn’t kill us…
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June 27th, 2011 at 9:49 pm - #sinister_300zx
congrats kaz..now can u put that GT-R in the game as DLC for the US :D thanx a million
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June 27th, 2011 at 7:52 pm - #neem’
I really don’t see why Jordan allows comments on posts like this, the idiotic crap some people ‘share’ here is almost shocking given how well moderated the forums are here. Why not start a new thread for each post and let the comments be moderated under the AUP instead? I’m pretty sure 50% of post comments would be moderated if they were in the forums and maybe 10% would result in bans…
Still, even finishing a 24 hour race is an achievement, maybe less so now than it was 10 or 20 years ago but to race that long with no serious accidents or mechanical failures, as well as the drivers being able to focus for such long stints, that’s something to be respected. I’d love to know what class they were in, though, and who the competitors were, and where they placed overall (I’m guessing it’ll be nearer the back of the grid, not specifying their overall position probably means it’s not worth boasting about, but that means little without knowing who was driving what).
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June 27th, 2011 at 10:41 pm - #Murcie
“The team finished 36th overall (official results here), completing 134 laps in 24 hours, 2 minutes, and 26.9 seconds,”
They finished first in class. Hopefully I’ve saved you a little bit of reading that you didn’t seem bothered to deal with when you commented on this article.
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June 27th, 2011 at 5:03 pm - #Awesome fella
Great job guys. ANother good result from something to do with GT
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June 27th, 2011 at 2:37 pm - #Brothan
Lovely weekend at the ring a bit too long trip (1130km) with 5 really big guys in a vw passat.. Hopefully Kaz will understand that he needs more Porsches and Beemers in his game after this race.. Good job on driving the GTR anyhow !
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June 27th, 2011 at 1:25 pm - #Vortex
Wow nice, didn’t know that !!! I was there, but when ur watching the race from the stage there is no way of knowing the positions unless you focus on the guy screaming thru the speakers… In german.. I don’t speak german :P
I was kinda worried at 2pm on sunday when I didn’t see their car for about a half hour. But when I saw them at the GP hairpin chicane it was a huge relief. It would be a shame if they broke down or crashed 2 hours before the race end.Great job Kaz and Team Shulze. Hope to see you next year !!
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June 27th, 2011 at 6:20 pm - #Butters
AAH!
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June 27th, 2011 at 1:05 pm - #Endi
This is why he hasn’t released 1 dlc yet. Has he seen what is going on with forza or nfs, THEY ARE GETTING PRETTY GOOD !
GT5 still is my favorite game, but it is really time to make a sort of DLC.-
June 27th, 2011 at 6:19 pm - #Butters
PD and Kaz don’t care about those games. Did you see their total sales? Ewwww. jk but, yea. They don’t care about other developers’ “simulators”.
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June 27th, 2011 at 10:29 am - #LoneWanderer
Gulyo, the more you comment, the more I want to strangle you dead. You have been here for a long time, and have yet to make a SINGLE positive comment. If you hate GT5 or Yamauchi-san this much, then go sign up onto a Forza lobby or get a life!
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June 27th, 2011 at 3:27 pm - #Tim Marshall
I’ll give you a hand holding him under water. I just don’t understand. If you don’t like it fine. Don’t play it & don’t waste half your life in forums about something you don’t like. LOSERS!
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June 27th, 2011 at 3:31 pm - #Gulyo
I rebought the game and PS3 again BTW … but still … I’ve right … this is a rich man passion nothing more and you lick his boots … that is fact …
That’s also a fact that PD relased half-ready game and patched it continuously.
Well, and NO DLC so far.
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June 27th, 2011 at 3:38 pm - #infamousDee
The only painful truth here is that PD are one of the only companies not to be screwing its customers over with overpriced DLC.
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June 27th, 2011 at 4:06 pm - #Fargut MoMafh
So the new spin after all these complaints is that he bought a second PS3 and game to replace the ones he said (many times) he sold due to extreme disgust and dissapointment with this game. A game that according to him, hasn’t really improved with updates. Or so he repeatedly posts anyway. And this is supposed to provide credibility to his trolling in some way?
Add to that, now he complains that Kaz is rich and doesn’t sell a complete product?
I know every time I find a product unsatisfactory, the first thing I do is buy it a second time, then complain that the manufacturer makes money off it. Facepalm epic troll think fail with a three quarter twist. Doooh! -
June 27th, 2011 at 6:18 pm - #Butters
Gulyo just needs a hug and a smack. The man’s an imbecile.
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June 27th, 2011 at 10:05 am - #Gulyo
seriously, who cares a rich mans passion … give us proper game instead ( not with 10 patch in 7 month )…
RIDICULOUS !!!-
June 27th, 2011 at 2:54 pm - #KFM
Seriously, they need to make a vibrator attachment for Forza 3, so *ahem* people like you will play it all the time instead of trolling here and making everyone hate you.
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June 27th, 2011 at 6:16 pm - #Butters
hahahahahaa
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June 28th, 2011 at 10:22 am - #Gulyo = GTFO
Haters gonna hate.
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June 27th, 2011 at 9:56 am - #Chiz
>>die in out
>>die in
>>die-
June 27th, 2011 at 5:54 pm - #TMNT
I think there’s a pill for that.
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June 27th, 2011 at 9:54 am - #riph
Ok kaz got new experienced to share after this to implement? lateral gforce for GT6?
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June 27th, 2011 at 8:03 am - #mardiearse
how about sorting and fixing the game out that i paid good money for. They still no leaderboards or car class system that this game is die in out for
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June 27th, 2011 at 10:36 pm - #Murcie
Christ. Let the man have some fun in his life without having a few out of many millions of gamers complaining about every single little (dare I say pointless) thing that is wrong with his game.
It ain’t all about Gran Turismo mate.
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June 28th, 2011 at 12:19 pm - #brainfade
Dear Mardiearse… Kaz has a life
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June 27th, 2011 at 4:33 am - #BadLt58
Great Job Kaz. Glad you drove for 24 hours straight all by yourself with no pause button. This is why I don’t buy that you’re too busy to fix this game. All smoke and mirrors. No new tracks but I have new helmets.
Get your priority straight. Just another boondoggle on your studio’s dime. This guy wont make another game in 10 years.
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June 27th, 2011 at 6:23 am - #mule
blah blah blah cry some more, please.
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June 27th, 2011 at 8:59 am - #RouseHouse
Not sure if trolling, or just stupid…
You know there were 4 drivers for the car, right?
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June 27th, 2011 at 10:07 am - #Gulyo
I got the game but I agree with you 100% !!!
They released 70% ready game !!!
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June 27th, 2011 at 1:13 pm - #@RouseHouse
Well, the only one supporting the OP is the resident troll gulyo, so that’s a pretty good hint…..
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June 27th, 2011 at 6:15 pm - #Butters
badlt is a bugger from another planet…
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June 28th, 2011 at 12:18 pm - #brainfade
Ever thing that Kaz may actually have a life unlike you BadLt58? Go do some research and have a look at how many businesses he’s involved in while you’re most probably in your parents basement
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June 27th, 2011 at 3:43 am - #KOUKI507
@isocuda great idea!
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June 27th, 2011 at 2:37 am - #ilonioum
Congratulations to the greatest man! well done and hopefully more of such wins are on the way.
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June 27th, 2011 at 3:08 am - #Mohamu
Greatest man? lol
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June 27th, 2011 at 4:34 am - #BadLt58
ilonioum- can you hug his nutz a little harder?
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June 27th, 2011 at 6:14 pm - #Butters
He is ONE of the greatest men for sureeee! And damn some of you guys are stupid. Some of us look up to him, so get the hell out of here.
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June 27th, 2011 at 2:32 am - #Rusty*
Haha, well done to Kaz and the team! It’s great to see he is now becoming a regular at the 24 hours of Nurburgring!
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June 27th, 2011 at 1:45 am - #SP8
Kaz and the team won in their class, congrats!!! But we want to win the 24h in different classes too!
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June 27th, 2011 at 12:24 am - #Meee
Do you think he practiced on GT5
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June 27th, 2011 at 1:10 am - #Butters
YUUUPP.
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June 27th, 2011 at 2:25 am - #HoffY
Don’t be silly… he’s probably got a mini nord track in his backyard and 5 GT-R’s just to fly around it every Saturday. :P
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June 27th, 2011 at 10:35 am - #Meee
@HoffY that wouldgrt him most of the practice he needs but he would need the 24 hour circuit not just nord
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June 28th, 2011 at 12:17 pm - #brainfade
if he did he probably would have crash to be brutally honest
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June 27th, 2011 at 12:24 am - #chump
this is why we play GT
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Serious question:
Why was the fastest lap on a heavily R35 GT-R “only” ~9:17?
Others driven around 8:30 – 8:45.
I thought the GT-R rocks porsches etc. in the street versions.
Why is it so slow in race conditions?
Or do you think the drivers got held up by slower cars not able or willing to overtake? I could understand this.