Successful Weekend for GT Academy Stars Ordoñez, Mardenborough, & Heitkotter
It was another busy weekend for real-world motorsports, and GT Academy stars were right in the action with great results. First up, Lucas Ordoñez and team Signatech Nissan were back on track at the the latest round in the ILMC 2011, the 6 Hours of Imola. The team drove a fast and consistent race, repeating their success at Le Mans with another excellent second-in-class finish, holding their lead in the points for the overall championship.
GT Academy’s newest stars also made their competitive racing debut this weekend, when European winner Jann Mardenborough joined U.S. winner Bryan Heitkotter at the Welsh Sports and GT Championship held at Wales’ Pembrey Circuit in a pair of RJN Motorsport’s 370Zs.
To call their best results impressive would be an understatment: Jann finished first in class and third overall in the final race of the weekend (he even took home the ‘driver of the day award’). Heitkotter finished right behind him in second, and won ‘driver of the day’ himself on Saturday.
“It was an excellent start and a very impressive debut for Jann,” said Bob Neville. “He was very smooth, he wasn’t over braking, his lines were good and his times were excellent throughout the day. It’s proved a valuable lesson, getting Jann used to having lots of cars around him. He was out there racing for real for the first time and he could not have done any better!”
Congratulations to all!
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July 7th, 2011 at 4:21 pm - #redreevos
Congrats guys! Really awesome stuff. Keep up the good work. You are making all of us GT5 players look good.
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July 8th, 2011 at 3:50 pm - #Mazerati
Sorry if this offends anyone, but; why do you keep celebrating Lucas’ ‘losses’, in the sense that he never seems to come first, and yet the ‘well dones’ keep coming.
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July 19th, 2011 at 4:58 pm - #GTP_Rcrcool9 says…
How about YOU try racing a Le Mans car IRL? It’s not that easy you know. And to be racing from playing a video game, that’s truly saying something…
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July 6th, 2011 at 9:26 pm - #cliffatron
damn i wish i could drive. however ill be all over the endurance races when (if) they release the update. it would be nice to have some proper live streams to this racing that they do. well played guys. lots of respect!
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July 6th, 2011 at 7:42 pm - #Acid X
Ah, to be living the dream..
Congratulations guys. You leave many of us quite envious! ;D
Keep up the good work.
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July 6th, 2011 at 1:28 pm - #McLogo
Great Job all 3!
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July 6th, 2011 at 10:52 am - #07_HSV_GTS
Iv checked this thing 5 times today hoping there’s something about the game but instead it’s just this stuff about GT academy that noone really cares about unless they were about to enter it.
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July 6th, 2011 at 2:27 am - #Shelby 427 1965
Is it just me or do some of the pictures look like a video game?
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July 5th, 2011 at 1:59 pm - #FurrRarrEeeeeee
dont care any news on dlc !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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July 5th, 2011 at 2:20 pm - #R1600Turbo
Dude, go away.
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July 5th, 2011 at 1:33 pm - #p-coletrat
Well done. Does anyone know if the cars are a little superior for the GT drivers. Not by way of cheating, just in terms of the team budget being able to afford a newer, more sophisticated machine. I’m not judging, I’m just objectively curious since all their vehicles look awesome.
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July 5th, 2011 at 9:06 am - #Brandon
Great job you guys! Very impressive!
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July 5th, 2011 at 7:58 am - #king of road
Great job guys…PS add me on psn:Doma-Luxy
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July 5th, 2011 at 7:22 am - #Gulyo
Who cares …
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July 5th, 2011 at 12:31 pm - #R1600Turbo
I hope you’re joking.
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July 5th, 2011 at 2:22 pm - #zedextreme8177
Resident troll strikes again *rolleyes*
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July 5th, 2011 at 2:37 pm - #R1600Turbo
Me? Why, because I actually have something nice to say? If you can’t appreciate what these guys represent for us GT players than why don’t you just ignore the news post and move on? No reason to post a negative comment that make YOU look like a troll.
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July 5th, 2011 at 3:14 pm - #zedextreme8177
That was for Gulyo, who leaves negative comments on each and every news page, not you.
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July 5th, 2011 at 4:00 pm - #R1600Turbo
Got it.
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July 5th, 2011 at 12:03 am - #dojOdRiFTeR
cools
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July 4th, 2011 at 6:42 pm - #Butters
Amaaaaaazing!
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July 4th, 2011 at 3:41 pm - #Diesel
Well done guys. Well done in particular to Bryan – got to be tough driving on the correct side of the road ;-) Glad the weather was amazing for you too (not a given in Wales!)
Briiant result for all 3. Well done.
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July 4th, 2011 at 3:31 pm - #captaincrunch24
So so far they’ve had GT races @ Spa, Silverstone and now Imola (I hope I’m not forgetting any others!). Could this be a hint of new tracks to come? :D
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July 4th, 2011 at 4:11 pm - #R1600Turbo
No.
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July 4th, 2011 at 2:08 pm - #Gerarghini
Another successful finish! Well done guys!
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July 4th, 2011 at 2:04 pm - #armydude
lucas you are THE BOSS!! congrats and keep the success rolling!
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July 4th, 2011 at 1:59 pm - #bass264
Congrats guys!!!! Video games can take people far in life! haha
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July 4th, 2011 at 1:48 pm - #mykem
Congratulations to all three. Lucas’ success at this point is expected but still quite a feat and hopefully both Jann and Bryan will follow that enormous footstep.
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Wow, I wish I was one of these lucky guys… well done…