12 months after he scored a class victory for Schulze motorsport, Gran Turismo founder Kazunori Yamauchi returns to the Nürburgring 24hr race but this time he has another famous Gran Turismo name accompanying him.
Yamauchi has again teamed up with Opera Performance founder Yasukichi Yamamoto and Tobias Schulze – his teammates from last year – but there’s a seat for the first GT Academy winner Lucas Ordoñez in the SP8T class Team GT Academy Nissan GT-R #123.
The schedule for this year’s race is:
May 17th, 17:30-21:30 GMT – Qualifying 1
May 18th, 07:35-09:35 GMT – Qualifying 2
May 18th, 16:00-16:50 GMT – Top 40 Qualifying
May 19th, 14:00GMT – Race Start
May 20th, 14:00GMT – Race Finish
After the first two qualifying sessions, covering evening and morning driving conditions, the #123 car is first in class (making it two GT Academy pole positions at the Nürburgring this weekend) with a fastest lap of 8’59.695, but 47th overall so the team won’t be participating in the Top 40 shootout this afternoon. GTPlanet member Christhedude will also be driving in the race in his SP7 class #54 Porsche 911, currently 3rd in class and 36th overall with an 8’42.507 lap ahead of Qualifying 3.
You can find out more about the race and its participants through the following helpful links:
Official Event Website
Official Schedule of Events
Team and Car Database
Full entry list
Qualifying Results
There’s also a discussion thread underway in the Motorsports section of our forums and we’ll bring more news ahead of the race tomorrow.
Images courtesy of lucasordonez.com and 24h-rennen.de.
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The ADAC site has a live stream..caught a couple hours this morning
http://adac.24h-rennen.de/
Sounds like a GT-R DLC + new Helmets :D
yeah this GT-R & GT-R GT3 that Jann Mardenborough drives :D
And of course, I wish a safe and fast drive to the team.
Watched a pretty good interview on Youtube with Lucas and Kaz today you can see ther car. It’s pretty exciting stuff:)
This is the most epic post ive read:)
This is possibly the coolest thing I’ve read off the front page in a long time.
so no more car updates? what happened to DLC every 2 months?
Ferrari FF + F12, Cadillac CTS, new M5, veyron SS?
yeah, yeah. dream on mate..
I’m very happy that two great news was brought up today. :)
Yes, put a live feed on GT5 TV please.
My prediction: Another win, another free car. :D
Too bad no sports/racing channels pick this up. We need to have a racing channel that shows nothing but racing and unlike Speed channel seems to think everybody wants more and more NASCAR.
Just imagine a racing channel that would show all the endurance races throughout the world and live.
That would be fantastic… Speed channel is pretty lacking in coverage.
Sick. Next week is the Monaco GP!! Can’t wait
The GT-R looks way better than last year, I must admit.
I wonder if We’ll all see it be created for GT5, like the one used for last years race?
I love that blue
Kaz and team was pretty fast last year and without major technical problems they will be even stronger :)
Thanks for getting me something to do on the weekend. Good luck guys, i will be cheering for you!!
CHRISTHEDUDE aka Ah-Nahld.
GOOD LUCKY BRO.
where can I watch this?
I was there last year! :)
I´ll be watching the race tomorrow all day long. Good luck to the team!!
Wrong reply.
However this one, I actually like.
I want them. Car in game, and helmet IRL. Well, car IRL too, but yeah, where can I get the helmet? Ooh, this looks to be amusing.
:D
Congrats to to the GT Academy Team/ Schulze and to Chris! Good luck!
Love the dark blue livery this year, and loving the fact Lucas is getting to drive alongside Mr. Yamauchi. That’s great. One question… how come Tobias Schulze is driving with Opera this year, have Schulze Motorsports collaborated with Opera this year, or did they just get Tobias as a driver?
There was a GTP member who was a racer? How come I didn’t get to say hello to him? :( Anyways. This is a great year for these guys. Well done, and good luck at the race. :D
Best of luck fellas, have a great race!
Are there any websites which will be streaming this live?
Yes. We’ll be making a news post tomorrow well before the race with all the various available streams. There are some noted in the discussion thread in our forums too.
YES!
Love that car.
we will have 327th skyline.
Yup.
But this is one of the few, that I actually like.