GT Academy 2015

Back in the summer, a 26-year old postal delivery driver took part in a little competition you may have heard of: GT Academy. This van-driving man – by the name of Matt Simmons – would go on to win the International Region GT Academy competition. In the article linked, we mentioned Simmons was entering the usual post-Academy 3-month training program that Nissan puts each winner through, in preparation for the Dubai 24 Hours race in January. That’s not the case anymore, however.

It’s been a long week, full of ups and downs, for 56 Gran Turismo 6 players. Back on the 5th of the month, the European edition of GT Academy 2015 kicked off in the hot and hazy climate of Abu Dhabi.

The NISMO PlayStation GT Academy European Race Camp gets underway today at the Yas Marina Formula One circuit in Abu Dhabi today. The intensive, week-long racing driver boot camp sees 56 Gran Turismo gamers from 11 European countries gather in the United Arab Emirates’ capital city. They will compete for the chance to embark on Nissan’s all-encompassing Driver Development Programme and the chance to become a real racing driver, with Formula One technical genius Adrian Newey OBE on hand as head judge.

Silverstone watch out, the Australians are coming!

Six Gran Turismo 6 gamers are now one giant step closer to becoming Nissan’s next professional race car driver. Following two intense days of competition at the U.S. 2015 Nissan GT Academy Finals in Nashville, the following competitors have earned the right to represent the United States during the International Race Camp at the legendary Silverstone Circuit in England, where the next GT Academy Champion will be crowned:

(Live stream begins at 10:00 in the above video.)

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.

This is it! There’s just a few days left in the final round of GT Academy 2015, and it’s proving to be one of the most challenging in the program’s history, as players wrangle the Nissan GT-R LM around a Circuit de la Sarthe invaded by cones.

In the latest episode of ‘Jay Leno’s Garage’, Jay talks tech with Chief Engineer Zack Eakin about Nissan’s Nissan GT-R LM Nismo, getting in-depth about the engineering decisions that gave birth to this remarkable car.

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.

Nissan’s radical Le Mans challenger, the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO, is coming to Gran Turismo 6 in just a few short weeks, when the final round of the GT Academy 2015 online qualifier kicks off on June 2, 2015, at 07:00 GMT/UTC.

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.

It’s Cinco de Mayo, and you know what that means: the second round of GT Academy 2015’s online qualifiers start today! After a challenging two weeks at Silverstone in the GT-R NISMO in the opening round, the competition is quickly picking up the pace – you’ll now be the GT-R NISMO GT3 Team RJN at the full Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit.

Things will be a bit more glamorous for GT Academy’s European Race Camp this year, which will be held at the Yas Marina F1 circuit in Abu Dhabi. Although most of you probably want to be there as a finalist, there’s another way: by entering the new “GT Academy 2015 Quiz”.

Nissan’s full set of plans for the GT Academy 2015 competition have finally been revealed today, and it looks like things will be quite a bit different this year with some significant changes.