'Dream Job' on offer for winner of seventh Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition

Nissan and PlayStation have joined forces for a seventh year to offer a 'dream job' to one lucky Gran Turismo gamer. The Nissan PlayStation GT Academy defies convention and opens up the possibility of a career in motor sport to anybody, male or female, that has ever

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GT Academy winner Reip joins Ordonez in Nissan ZEOD RC driver line up

The driver line-up for Nissan's revolutionary ZEOD RC prototype will feature two past winners of the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy program with Belgian driver Wolfgang Reip signed to join Lucas Ordonez at this year's Le Mans 24 Hours.

In 2012, Reip won the European

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Miguel Faisca crowned 2013 European GT Academy Champion

GT Academy Driver Development Programme and a full-season's racing in a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 beckon for Portuguese Gran Turismo gamer as he aims to become a real racing driver.

Miguel Faisca, a 24-year-old student from Lisbon, Portugal has been crowned the

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Nissan's next 'Lounge to Le Mans' star ready to race

In recent years GT Academy has become a major chapter in Nissan's Le Mans story. In 2011 Lucas Ordonez, the winner of the first GT Academy competition in 2008, became the first gamer to race at the Le Mans 24 Hours. Lucas set the bar high by taking a podium

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Experience digital thrill of Juke Nismo, then drive it for real

Players of a new update of Asphalt 7: Heat can now test the Nissan Juke Nismo and the Juke-R to the limit in the digital world and win the chance to be one of the first to drive the new Juke Nismo for real. Winners will also get a high speed thrill ride in the Juke-R, experiencing

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First Nurburgring 24 Hours finish for GT Academy winner

Nissan’s original GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordonez, has ticked-off another of the world’s best endurance races by completing the Nurburgring 24 Hours in a Nissan GT-R. Along with his team-mates Kazunori Yamauchi, Yasukichi Yamamoto and Tobias Schulze,

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Successful ‘Gamer-to-Racer' GT Academy Programme expands for 2012

Nissan and PlayStation have joined forces again to run the fourth year of the innovative GT Academy virtual-to-reality racing competition. While the four previous GT Academy graduates line up in top-level race series in 2012, the programme that set them on their path to

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