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GT Academy 2010 – Documentary Videos

Posted on March 9th, 2010 in Console – 5 Comments

About a week ago, the 2010 GT Academy competition held by Nissan and Sony ended at Silverstone as talian Luca Lorenzini and Frenchman Jordan Tresson emerged as winners, earning them a professional driver training and a paid seat in the 2010 FIA GT4 Championship.

Lorenzini and Tresson proved to have the most talent to make it in professional racing, beating sixteen other contestants that came to Silverstone for the grueling five-day final of the 2010 GT Academy. What started as purely virtual competition last December got very real at Silverstone as the drivers had to prove their fitness and skills driving various Nissan road cars as well as in practical and written test, watched by an expert jury made up of well-known racers.

Sony and Nissan have now released some video footage of the event, showing the 18 contestants in action on and off track, judged by the expert jury board consisting of former F1 driver Johnny Herbert, road racer Rob Barff, former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan and Nürburgring expert Sabine Schmitz.

Below are all four videos for you to enjoy, you might have to click “Read More” to see all of them.


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  • SergeantBoner

    I really would like to prove myself in the bends of Sabine’s body…

  • felipe

    And some tools still lie to believe GT5 will be arcade! What team in this world would allow for 2 arcade racers to compete for their REAL team? What Fia in this world you grant 2 arcadies a license to compete among the best professional drivers in Europe? What corporation in this world would risk their name and a brand such as Gran Turismo for the sake of 2 unexperienced guys?
    Tools like it or not this game is as good a sim as the best out there can be!

  • FlyingAce

    felipe: yes, no corporation or racing team would risk signing up 2 inexperienced guys… that’s why they will undergo a “professional driver training”… they are NOT going straight from GT5 to a racing car, because being good in simracing doesn’t automatically mean you are the next Michael Schumacher… in this case GT5 is a mere competition tool to declare a winner who gets this fantastic opportunity…

    GT5 will definitely be a sim, but please don’t blow things out of proportion here…

  • Sensekhmet

    To get a racing license all you have to do is string together a few laps and pass a writing test.

  • Sensekhmet

    To get a racing license all you have to do is string together a few laps and pass a written test.

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