GT Academy

1000km in the Black Forest – that’s all that stands between GT Academy and two GT3 world titles.

800,000 entered, 42 prevailed and one man took the title and the path to a full-time racing career – Miguel Faisca.

Around 300,000 entered and now just 12 remain.

It’s been a busy year for Lucas Ordoñez. We’re never quite sure what car he’s going to sit in next as he hops from 370Z to GT-R GT3 to LMP2 to Altima V8 and even Super GT – but the latest ride is unique in every sense.

In a weekend busy enough to merit its own Twitter hashtag, the Nismo Athletes have been showing off their skills over seventeen timezones.

Silverstone once again played host to the final stage of the UK GT Academy national competition yesterday – and provided exactly the level of competition we’ve come to expect from it.

When GTP covered Bryan Heitkotter’s return last week, we said it had come as a bit of a surprise he wasn’t retained as a Nismo Athlete for 2013. In timely fashion, Bryan has reminded all of us why he was 2011’s US GT Academy champion.

The international qualification round of GT Academy 2013 concluded over the weekend, involving over 1.3 million total participants.

The GT Academy drivers are ready for another assault on the Spa 24hr this weekend as eight drivers line up in the two GT3 class Nismo GT-Rs.

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Sony and Nissan have formally announced GT Academy 2013 has received over 1 million downloads worldwide as of July 16, just two weeks after the GT6 demo which hosts the competition was released.

For those of us in the UK still scratching around for the four or five seconds we need to trouble the top 16 and couldn’t make Goodwood last weekend, good news! Four more wildcards are up for grabs at the O2 this weekend.

Since the start of the competition last week, our GT Academy 2013 forum has been buzzing with discussion amongst participants from around the world, sharing tips and tricks on how to get faster and move up the leaderboards.

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