Andrew Evans

Barely a weekend goes by on GTPlanet without us talking about one race or another where a GT Academy winner has gone from playing racing games to driving a real racing cars, so it’s a little unusual to find out that it happens the other way round too.

There’s another massive weekend of motorsport coming up and once again Nissan and GT Academy are front and centre.

Silverstone watch out, the Australians are coming!

If you were still hopeful for the Bertone Vision Gran Turismo car to come along to GT6 despite the company’s real world problems, you’re out of luck. Eagle-eyed GTPlanet members and F5 key enthusiasts caught a refresh of the Vision GT section of the official Gran Turismo website and Bertone no longer appears there as a participating manufacturer.

One great thing about the pervasion of real world circuits in racing games is the ability for the gaming community to compare how different companies approach the modelling of the tracks.

The online time trials may have finished a month ago, but qualification for GT Academy is still very much available if you can get yourself to a Live Event in your region.

Hot on the heels of an unusual 3 hour online maintenance period, Polyphony Digital has announced more online maintenance for GT6 during July – and if you thought it was odd last time, this one will boggle the mind completely.

Everywhere you look at the moment there’s a GT Academy driver driving something somewhere. Whether it’s the Blancpain Endurance Series in France, the Nissan Micra Cup in Canada or GP3 in Austria, there’s a guy in a white and red suit who used to play racing games for fun sticking it up the sharp end in a Nissan of one kind or another.

If you want to keep up with the entire Le Mans 24 Hours but none of the available TV or streaming options suit you – or you don’t have enough caffeine and matchsticks to last the duration – let GTPlanet help out.

If the online qualifier for GT Academy is proving too unbearable for you and you live in the UK, we have some good news for you. Three spectators will walk away from the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed with the chance of a lifetime at the 2015 GT Academy Race Camp in Abu Dhabi – and it could be you!

It’s been one of the worst kept secrets in the game for the last 6 weeks, but today the final round of GT Academy’s online qualification section gets underway with players at the wheel of Nissan’s fearsome new hybrid LMP1 car around the Le Mans circuit it will shortly be calling its home.

GT Academy winds it up another notch today as the third round goes live and it’s a level playing field as there’s a new car in the mix.

We’re now well into the endurance racing season and one of the most challenging is upon us again with the 2015 Nürburgring 24 hours.