As many of you know, the father of the Gran Turismo series is competing in the Nurburgring 24 Hours race, going on right now. He’s driving the #72 Lexus IS-F with teammates Hideshi Matsuda, Owen Mildenhall, and Peter Lyon (learn more about them here). You can monitor their progress live on the race’s official website – they’ve even got streaming video coverage available right here. For audio coverage in English, tune in to Radio Le Mans (thanks for the shout-out on the air , guys!). I’ll update this post when the results are in. Good luck, Yamauchi-san!
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@MiataManiac As far as I know it was never captured unless you speak German. It was shown on the web, the entire race and the stream was stable.
I would point you in a direction where I know where a torrent of the race is, but you could be a leech and that’s not tolerated.
No the Manthey Porsche has had an accident in the Night
Yes, the Hybrid Porsche had an engine failure with 2 hours to go. They were in 1st place at the time, with BMW in 2nd. Bad luck for porsche… good for BMW!
Anyone know where to get a Torrent of the race?
Yay!!! GT5,GTP,KAZ,FT-podium?
The Manthey Porsche had an engine failure after 47 laps
The hybrid Porsche also had an engine failure after 20 hours
Kaz finished 59th with his team and I think third in his class.
What happened to the Porsche/Mantay everyone asks……
Well, as the event was sponsered by GT, the Porsches had to be removed. ;-)
Something about contract rights….?
Yes, BMW wins!!!
@Jordan: here’s some new GT5 Video footage-
http://www.allgamesbeta.info/2010/05/gran-turismo-5-nurburgring-nordschleife.html
new gt5 nurburgring 24 hour course footage with updated visuals for nurburgring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3kV1YJtLoA&feature=player_embedded
Kaz is currently in 4th place after overtaking 114 cars!
Voici les 1er vidéos de la démo du Nürburgring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkfq8eXtpM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3kV1YJtLoA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7qMABV9S1Y
congrats kaz :)
Hehe, look at the video, I posted above. There you can see at the last second, that most of the spectators are animated (clapping hands and that stuff. Looks cute.
New footage: Nurburgring demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3kV1YJtLoA
okok, I was astounished when i saw that nearly all the top tier cars were gone when i started watching again today at 13h30
I saw the Gummibär out with the hybrid, that´s when i was watching again.
They were damn lucky with the weather this year.
Manthey didn’t return. A BMW M3 came in 1st, Ferrari 430 2nd, and an Audi R8 on 3rd
Mantay #1 crashed on course, Porsche/Mantay #9 failed on course with 2 hours to go. Gummi Bear car had transmission issues finished down the order and the other car had shock problems finished down the order, only the #20 H&R car finished in the Top 15.
Nice race.
what happend to the mantay porsche?? It was gone today when i was watching and they didn´t tell.
Someone know how team schrick has done?
Yamauchi finished 60th overall, his car has done 127 laps and finished 4th in class with 8 pitstops
Here is a first gameplay video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3kV1YJtLoA
Why it is a shame. Do you know an actual game, which handles 200 cars? I think the word “shame” is a big fail ;)
I hpe they put this series in the game too, with night and day change. I like this series more than le mans. Its a shame that the PS can’t handle nearly 200 cars, like it is in real life ;)
FORZA YAMAUCHI!!!SIAMO TUTTI AL TUO FIANCO!!!
The car is not the most beautiful car, for sure. But it is nice to see Kaz on the Nordschleife. And now, I want to see gamplay videos of the new GT5 demo :D
Ithink it’s very sad that we don’t have a gameplay video yet.
Im sure they dont work 7 day weeks, let the man have some fu! Either way all of this real world racing will be helping future games :)
Quit racing and go back working on GT5 KAz !
now a gearbox change… not good
8.5 hours left to go… Audi in the lead!!
I hope this car will be included in the final game!
I pray this event and le mans are present in gt5. With full day/night…I would cry.
i have a bad feeling about this race…. something is definitely going down
cant wait 4 the game but i hope it will come with a g27 steering wheel when it comes out. just a thought
I agree with kekke2000
All I have to say is: that is one fugly IS-F, but i’d love to drive it >:)
No, actually Translator-san is the real brains behind the operation.
Err? Doesn’t he have a game to work on? ;)
Yeah, I’ve only seen one camera and I was watching for 45 minutes earlier. Oh well, looks like a lot of fun, though. Someday… :)
Only 2 cameras? been watching pass 5 mins and only either see pitlane or pit exit
nice one.
LMAO at short guy!! :)
… and making some notes where reality has gotten it wrong. Again!
I hope he took his laptop with him so he get get some work done on GT5 whilst on the straight bits :-)
I wonder if he took Translator Dude with him? ;)
i would like to thank the TEAM of developers behind this game, Kaz is not the only one behind such a beautiful masterpiece
Living the dream!! ;) Good Luck and Enjoy the Race! Can’t wait for you Kaz to get back to the office refreshed and ready to work hard at finishing the game for us! ;)
Position 87 right now
All the best to the four drivers of the Lexus team!
Haha – great caption, Franz. I thought the same thing!
Currently 105th overall, 6th in class
Caption for the picture above>
Kaz: Nurburgring 24 Hours race. Serious business!
Others: Nah! We are here to have fun ^o^
Been following their progress throughout the day. We’re rooting for you Kaz!
yes!,my first,first comment,nice to see kazunori doing some motorsport