Mercedes Live Race in Gran Turismo 5, Live Video Stream (Coulthard Wins!)
The live stream is no longer available. Photos and video highlights are available here.
The Mercedes-Benz Live Race is almost here, and GTPlanet is proud to be an official streaming video partner for the event! The live broadcast begins at 3:00PM in the UK and will be hosted by popular F1 television commentator Martin Brundle.
As you’ve probably heard by now, the premise of the Live Race is simple: former F1 driver David Coulthard is going head-to-head against a select group of Gran Turismo 5 gamers in the same car, on the Top Gear Test Track, at the same time.
I’m happy to report that many of the contest finalists are from GTPlanet – user “thefraggle” is live-blogging the entire event here in our forums, offering a unique perspective of the competition.
At stake for the fastest gamer is a 5-star trip to the 2011 Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix, and for David, his reputation! Meanwhile, Europeans will be able to take a shot at David’s live lap times in a special GT5 Seasonal Event.
Keep an eye on the video player above for the start of the broadcast, or visit DCLiveRace.co.uk for a back-up stream. Good luck to everyone!
UPDATE: The event went off without a hitch and was great fun to watch. David Coulthard set an early hot lap of 1:16.32, besting the fastest gamer Jason Birt by half a second! Here’s the final results:
David Coulthard: 1:16.32
Jason Birt: 1:16.86 (+0.548)
Rob Woodhouse: 1:17.53 (+1.214)
Andy Sawley 1:17.88 (+1.564)
Jamie Lunn 1:18.73 (+2.411)
John Morshead 1:19.27 (+2.955)
Keith Brown 1:19.90 (+3.587)
Highlights from the day’s events will be available soon in cased you missed anything. Thanks to all of you who tuned in for the live stream, and congratulations to David and Jason!
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September 6th, 2011 at 3:11 am - #daics69
lol yeah, especially if they had witches hats down, he would’ve knocked all over lol
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September 5th, 2011 at 12:44 pm - #cbarbosa
This event is STUPID!!!
Did anyone took in consideration that are people who play GT5 with the PS3 controller!!??
The car is impossible to control with the pad…
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September 5th, 2011 at 12:45 pm - #Apokalipse
What do you expect them to do? Give out free wheels?
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September 5th, 2011 at 12:58 pm - #CorporateHammer
Once again, “Driving Simulator” now is it a simulator without a wheel ? I honestly feel sorry for people who have not played GT5 with a wheel. The DFGT can be had for $100.
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September 5th, 2011 at 1:15 pm - #Racemile
cbarbosa LOLWUT??! You made my day seriously.
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September 5th, 2011 at 1:37 pm - #Nismopower
Dude i just did it with a pad, and got a 1:17:7 within 3 tries.
Soo whats the big deal, i bet i could get in the 1:16 if i really really sit for it.
Adjust the sensitivity to about 2-4 and then it works great !! :D
Also have a wheel but didnt want to move my ps3 from living room to my own room,( still live at my mom’s home so no race seat in living room :( ) -
September 5th, 2011 at 5:08 pm - #sdasdadsa
Impossible? You suck. This is driving simulator. What do you expect?
I did 1.16.5 with the pad without any driving aids (except ABS was set to 1) -
September 6th, 2011 at 6:27 am - #SpeedTrap
LOL at people playing always with asssist and race tyres and not doing good with realistic setups
it’s your fault man not PD lol
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September 5th, 2011 at 12:31 pm - #Karyuun
…Jordan… What happened to my comment??? The comments from 9:04 to 11:30 were wiped out except for the 9:10 one… the second and third ones were fine… the first one wasn’t… Pointless removal in my opinion…
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September 5th, 2011 at 12:31 pm - #mik_69
Nice one Jason (aka Driver101 of PSL)on your competition win and i’m sure you;ll enjoy Brazil mate!!!
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September 5th, 2011 at 12:08 pm - #Zuel
I hope the live stream and comp does come to the states. If it does we already know the track it will be held at.
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:22 am - #Vortex
anyone else have the issue that once you have a red lap, all laps after that one are red too? (starting from the finishline when on the track)
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:18 am - #Gabriel Serrano
is it for the uk only? d*mn
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:14 am - #Doupik
I personaly think SLS is one of the worst cars in the game (but it might be actually driveable in reality :-D) and on top of that, we get if equipped with comfort tires! I’m so far from Gold Medal :-/
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:10 am - #pudge
The seasonal event never showed up for me. Looks like it wasn’t avaialable in the U.S. … wish someone would’ve mentioned that earlier.
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:12 am - #Bummer
Yah, I was looking forward to it too!
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:34 am - #p-coletray
I got the show perfecly streamed, but no event in Seattle, so I went to practice mode. They were definitely misleading everyone who thought they would have the event. I’m sure it was in the fine print that it was only UK, but the advertisements, announcers, websites and news reports were blatantly stating “around the world”. Didn’t expect a bait and switch.
Regardless, it was fun to watch, congrats to the winner, he looked like a real gamer, unshaved and a little rough on the edges haha.
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September 5th, 2011 at 12:10 pm - #Zuel
The seasonal event will be up later today.
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:08 am - #Zuel
Did any one get the final times? I stepped away.
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:04 am - #Brandon
Does the seasonal event only show up if you have PAL disc?
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:08 am - #GOTMAXPOWER
Judging by the people on the leaderboard I think it is open to all.
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:04 am - #seluhehi
David’s car used ABS or not ABS?
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:12 am - #funrun
Surely the car utilizes an ABS, which can’t just be turned off like in GT5.
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September 5th, 2011 at 10:59 am - #HPUnleashed
That was awsome! I was hoping Jeremy Clarkson would pop in, but who knows? Maybe they’ll show this on their next series!
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September 5th, 2011 at 10:59 am - #funrun
That was cool. Good thing David got a solid lap in before the rain came down and overcooking the brakes and tires. Good to see how close reality vs. GT5 really is.
I would love to see an onboard lap side by side to see the braking points and lines they each took.Have fun in Brazil Birt!
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:00 am - #funrun
….Jason!
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September 5th, 2011 at 10:58 am - #SpeedTrap
comfort soft tires and stock car
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September 5th, 2011 at 10:57 am - #Keyop
Well done ‘Driver’ on your win :)
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September 5th, 2011 at 10:56 am - #SpeedTrap
Coulthard 1:16:32 – GT5 1:16:800
IMPRESSIVE!!
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September 5th, 2011 at 10:53 am - #McZachenF138
I got on to watch the race and it ended like 20 seconds later. >:/
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September 6th, 2011 at 3:28 am - #daics69
lol so you were 14mins 40seconds late?
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September 5th, 2011 at 10:51 am - #will-i-am
Corners were cut that we can’t cut. Still great.
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September 6th, 2011 at 3:29 am - #daics69
yeah was wondering if anyone else caught onto that, also gave DC a better run out of most corners
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September 5th, 2011 at 10:50 am - #GTP_Davey07-O37
Congrats to Birt and to David. Nice to see a close comparison between real and virtual. Great stuff!!…;-))..
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:43 am - #GTP_Davey07-O37
Sorry….Jason. Have a blast in Brazil..;-))…
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If DC’s lap was in the game it would have been red flagged for sure, LoL