The famous GT Academy Race Camp gets underway Saturday at its now traditional home, the world renowned Silverstone Circuit in the UK. Over 830,000 people from across Europe entered the fourth iteration of the European competition this year, and only the best 36 remain.
The 36 competitors will be divided into six territory groups for this year’s race camp with the groups consisting of: France (6 contestants); Italy (6); UK (5) and Ireland (1); Spain (3) and Portugal (3); Belgium (3) and Netherlands (3); and Austria (2), Switzerland (2) and Poland (2).
Over the next seven days, they’ll have to prove themselves to an all-star panel of judges and mentors from their respective regions. These include: Formula One drivers Johnny Herbert (UK), René Arnoux (FRA), Vitantonio Liuzzi (ITA), Sébastien Buemi (CH) and Dani Clos (ESP); sports car drivers Bas Leinders (BEL), Rob Barff (UK), Franck Mailleux (FRA) and GT Academy graduates Lucas (ESP), Jordan (FRA) and Jann (GB); as well as touring car driver Tim Coronel (NED).
A number of eliminations will take place during the week until only one from each group of six remains for the final two days of Race Camp (Friday, 24 and Saturday, 25 August). The finale happily coincides with the World Endurance Championship race at Silverstone in which GT Academy champions Lucas Ordoñez and Jordan Tresson will compete in LMP2 cars for the Greaves Motorsport and Signatech Nissan teams, respectively.
The winner of the European GT Academy Race Camp will return to Silverstone to embark on an in-depth Driver Development Programme. As well as ensuring that he qualifies for an international race licence in super-quick time, the DDP will prepare the winner for the rigours of an entry into the tough and prestigious Dubai 24 Hour race in January 2014 where he will race a Nissan 370Z GT4 race car. The European winner will be joined in Dubai by the winners of the German, Russian and USA Race Camps.
Congratulations and good luck to all of the competitors!
See more articles on GT Academy 2012 and GT Academy 2012 EU Race Camp.
good luck Diogo Souza ;)
let the T.A..M. support make you fly
wtf. no CZE (Czech Republic) again :-(
good luck Diogo Souza : )
give your best m8
show us the T.A.M magic
T.A.M’s very own Diogo Souza for the win :))
Gl m8, hoping to see you do well
good luck Diogo Souza, the automotive mayhem are all behind you mate.
GO “THE FLYING SOUZA”
Bandit
Good luck Rutter, wheely and bro.
Give your best guys this is your shot! Best of luck
Tim Coronel!
Good luck to all of you taking part, let the downforce be with you!!
From the words of Yoda! XD
But still, congrats to everyone at Silverstone who had worked really hard to get here and good luck to everyone at the event!
Hi guys, Des here from the UK & Ireland group. Just got to our rooms, or snooze boxes as they are called. Pretty nice actually. We all have a double bed, TV, toilet and shower. Tomorrow we are up at 7.15 most likely for a briefing and have a long day apparently.
We were also told that Kaz is dropping by on Wednesday so it’s gonna be really cool to meet him!
I’ll try to document each day as it happens so for those who are interested, my twitter is @reallydes – theres a link to my website there too and I will most likely do a write up on it at the end of each day.
Good luck, Des!
(^…^)
Good luck and be sure to ask him about GT6!!!! lol jk, but have fun!
Congrats Des! Looking forward to the updates.
Good luck guys! :D
World renowned Silverstone Circuit? Really so why isn’t it in the game ?!?
Anyway, good luck everyone
Because its saved for GT6. Perfect idea.
I don’t know Toko. Silverstone will most likely be included in GT5 Academy Edition, so I’d expect it as DLC towards the end of September.
Do we get the google bicycle aswell?
GO GO Belgium
Good luck to everyone!! Holy cow those judges! O_O Too much pressure for me.
I’m wishing al the guys good luck. Specially the Dutchies. Frank (GTHQ_Djie) Enrico (GTP_CICO) and Hani (TRP_NOSS)
Deep inside hope Frank wins, just because he is my friend. Come on mate.
I wish Canada had something like this :(
the competition or the race camp/track?
Blame Quebec.
Yeah, Quebec’s an odd ball..