Team GT Academy Secure Nürburgring 24hr Class Victory
After 24 hours of all-weather driving and some unbelievable twists and turns, Team GT Academy safely brought home their #123 Nissan GT-R first in their SP8T class and 30th overall.
The result marks a second successive class victory for Kazunori Yamauchi and his 2011 teammates Yasukichi Yamamoto and Tobias Schulze and a first 24hr class victory for GT Academy winner Lucas Ordoñez. The provisional official results give the team 30th place overall – although they finished the race 32nd overall, some dramatic last second disqualifications elevated the team – with 136 laps completed in 24 hour 5 minutes 56.565 seconds, both improvements on the previous year.
Earlier this morning an exclusive video showing the build-up to and the first half of the race, including exclusive in-car footage, was released on the official Gran Turismo Youtube channel:
GTPlanet member Christhedude’s race was cut short on lap 129 – at the time leading the GT Academy car by just two places – when they were forced to retire. Our forum contains more discussion of the race and video stills taken throughout the race of multiple cars and incidents, including the dramatic final few seconds of the race.
Congratulations to Kazunori Yamauchi, Lucas Ordoñez and all involved in the Team GT Academy car!
Images courtesy of Nissan.
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May 26th, 2012 at 3:45 am - #Youngun
just like last time, Car will come to us, yellow tinted lights and a blue tinted body all based on the 2012 GTR with aero tweaks. its another GTR but still cool
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June 3rd, 2012 at 4:07 pm - #Potatohead314
Actually the Audi R8 and the 458 Italia are in the game… I own them. Pretty sure the SLS AMG is too. Be grateful I made an account just to reply to u
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May 22nd, 2012 at 5:17 pm - #SZRT Ice
I seriously want that black & blue Mclaren MP-4 race car that shows up @ 64 sec. Or atleast a race mod for the current MP-4 we have like the mods on that one!!
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May 22nd, 2012 at 5:20 pm - #SZRT Ice
Typo, it’s @ 54 secs.
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May 23rd, 2012 at 3:26 pm - #Amac500
We should get race miss for all GT3 level cars, and race mods should come with a couple different 3-color livery options and we can obviously spray the 3 colors. Seems simpler then a full on livery maker for sure and would satisfy us all for GT5, then a full livery maker in 6. Hopefully in GT5 3.0
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May 23rd, 2012 at 10:06 pm - #Rickybobby01776
That would be the best thing ever
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May 25th, 2012 at 1:38 pm - #SZRT Ice
Indeed, but I say 5 colored, and you could choose to use 2/3/4/5 different colors if you so like.
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May 22nd, 2012 at 12:18 am - #hobanator24
Update 2.06 is now live. Haven’t seen anything new as of 12:09 AM EST. Servers still down
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May 21st, 2012 at 11:50 pm - #canieaturchikn
New update just became availible. Didn’t know where to post but go and download it folks!
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May 22nd, 2012 at 12:10 am - #canieaturchikn
Darn it I shouldn’t have said a thing now the whole world is downloading and slowing down my download. ARGH!
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May 21st, 2012 at 11:46 pm - #photonrider
Congratulations!Gentlemen. Well done!
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May 21st, 2012 at 10:54 pm - #atlhardhitters1
Well done! Now lets work on proper tier wear please. There’s nothing worse than entering a online competition where the tire restriction is either comforts, or sports. Don’t get me wrong they’re good rooms, but realistically race tires belong on the track. My motorcycle will never have street tires installed for a track day, and never have racing slicks on the street. I love GT5 , but month after month not real tiers fix. At least make a statement saying that “no tier fix for GT5 we’ll reserve it for GT6″. I lived in japan for over six years and this is not the Japanese way. Give us a official statement so I will not wait on this game to get patched please.
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May 21st, 2012 at 9:12 pm - #Will miller
Good job gentlemen !!!!
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May 21st, 2012 at 9:04 pm - #s2k2k3
Where did the Forza creator finish? What? He wasn’t in the race?
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May 21st, 2012 at 9:20 pm - #BIOHAZARD9519
Forza has no real race car drivers like NFS or GT5.
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May 21st, 2012 at 8:09 pm - #ttfn
Absolutely, love the look of Kaz’s car too….be fun to drive that around the ‘Ring
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May 21st, 2012 at 5:45 pm - #audi3111
@TheCrazySwede
Hell yeah That would be The best dlc. We all want that. Kaz and PD LISTEN WHAT WE WANT!!!! -
May 21st, 2012 at 5:36 pm - #TheCrazySwede
24H of Nurburgring DLC, please?! :)
The Hankook SLS, the Phoenix LMS Ultra R8, the Z4 GT3 (even though I prefer the M3 GT2) and the rest of the race cars would be awesome to have in GT5.-
May 25th, 2012 at 12:20 pm - #tje23
That would be brilliant! I’m still campaigning for my Aston Vantage GTE and ALMS/WEC spec cars on the game too, especially with Nissan’s current involvement in these series!
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May 21st, 2012 at 3:07 pm - #TokoTurismo
I really love the new photos a hole lot! The GT-R race car, the Nurburgring, the angles. It all screams out *Beaitifully perfect* I really want GT6′s Nurburg to look just like that. I love the art on the track and how green the trees and the scenery looks. It’s fantastic. (*,*) The grass must look strong as well in that game.
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May 21st, 2012 at 2:13 pm - #Maddens Raiders
I don’t think I could be any more proud of a video game title. This is truly awesomeness!
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May 21st, 2012 at 12:17 pm - #Radracing
What happened to the other GTR in their class? It had faster it looked liked they had faster lap times. Was it DNF or did it breakdown and lose some laps against GT Academy Team?
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May 21st, 2012 at 2:17 pm - #GrEn
He got kicked out of the server due to his very low internet latency. ;p
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May 21st, 2012 at 12:03 pm - #ThunderGod
I watched the last hour of the race on the live Audi feed. Unfortunately I do not speak German. Can someone please explain to me exactly what happened at the end of the race between the Porsche and Mercedes SLS for third place?! The Porsche seemed to have third locked up after the incredible battle the two cars were having and I swear it looked like he just stopped a few feet from the finish line and the SLS passed him. Then he got hit! What actually happened?
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May 21st, 2012 at 2:08 pm - #GrEn
I think he ran out of fuel and the Clio was going straight, misjudging the speed (slow speed) that he was going near the finish line. So bam! Clio rear ended him.
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May 25th, 2012 at 12:18 pm - #tje23
You should have listened to the RadioLeMans commentary, they’re by far the best English commentary at every event they cover (most endurance races worldwide). As I understand it, the Porsche had unlapped himself against the leader n the final lap, and thus had another lap to complete if he did not allow the leader back through before the line. The car did not have enough fuel for another lap, and in a tactical error, they did not correctly inform the driver, who was not sure whether to stop. He therefore crossed the line, yet could not complete another lap. Not sure what happened with the Clio! However, had he have not overtaken the leader on track position, or had the same incident a lap later, or stopped before the line, he would have been classified – only losing 1 position. I hope that makes sense to you! :)
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May 21st, 2012 at 11:27 am - #GTP_Versatile
At the start of the video, where the BMW and the Mini Cooper were pulling out of the pits looked like Gran Turismo. In fact, they even had Gran Turismo decals on the windshield.
Sneak Peek at GT update anyone?
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May 21st, 2012 at 11:13 am - #biftizmo
When will we see real time replay data imported into GT5 for events such as this. I’m sure this would be a great addition to the game and would be very possible.PD would have a much better coverage of the race if only virtual..but i guess there would be a lot of legality’s involved..but possible!
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May 21st, 2012 at 11:24 am - #biftizmo
to be able to follow the race like this would be awesome…and at pit stops we could switch to live pit cam and feel really involved..this game is great and the possibility’s are just waiting to come out..
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May 21st, 2012 at 7:58 am - #JackC8
My congratulations to Team GT! Awesome job. Hopefully we’ll see the #123 car in a future DLC :)
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May 21st, 2012 at 7:36 am - #scarslasher
I hate to say it, but first in a class with only two cars isn’t much.
Depends on how much he beat the other class car by.But 30th overall isn’t bad. :O
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thing that puzzles me is that GT sponsors the series yet we dont get any of these cars in the game, not one…… LP560, MP4, 458, R8, SLS, 911RSR, V8 Vantage, RS4, M3, Z4 (pole) come on Kaz, you no wot we want.