Jay Leno Makes Topical Video Game Jokes, Goony Faces with GT Academy Winner Ricardo Sánchez
2014 Nissan GT Academy International winner Ricardo Sánchez is living the dream. He went from racing in video games to racing on the track for NISMO at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and in the Pirelli World Challenge series. He’s a sterling example of the possibilities that open up to you when you really put […]
Nissan GT Academy Winner Racing in America
Nissan has quite a unique way to acquire new drivers for its race teams. While it does hire drivers the traditional way, the automaker also holds competitions for video game drivers to see if they have what it takes to be a true racecar driver. The competition is called the GT Academy, and winners of […]
GT Academy Alumni Prepare For Dubai
Nissan’s GT Academy competition is truly unique. Gamers who are the best at driving cars in the virtual world are brought out to tracks around the world to compete behind the wheel of real Nissan racecars for a place on a race team. Nissan believes in the drivers it finds through the program so much […]
The GT Academy Has a New Champion
The GT Academy is a truly ambitious competition that takes the world’s best video game drivers and translates their talent into actual track wins. This year’s competition saw 35 drivers from around the world come together in the UK for a tortuous eight-day Race Camp with Nissan. Ultimately Johnny Guindi Hamui, a 22-year-old from Mexico, emerged […]
5th Season of GT Academy in Full Swing
Nissan and PlayStation entered into a highly successful collaboration a few years back when the pair dreamed up GT Academy, which allows video gamers to test their skills on virtual tracks—and the best of the best to take those skills and put them into action on actual tracks. The 5th season of GT Academy started […]
GT Academy Team Finishes 6th at Daytona CTSCC
The opening round of the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge season was last weekend in Daytona, Florida, where the Nissan GT Academy team finished sixth in their Doran Racing 370Z NISMO. The driver, Bryan Heitkotter, won the 2011 Nissan GT Academy and this was his first American race. The Nissan GT Academy is a program that […]
GT Academy Drivers Place Fifth Overall at Dubai 24 Hours in Nissan GT-R
Finishing fifth overall and second in class at the Dubai 24 Hours race is an impressive feat, but this team isn’t like the others. The five drivers were just avid gamers only six months ago. Selected by the 2014 GT Academy program, the drivers proved their racing skills in the video game Gran Turismo for […]
Nicholas Hamman Wins Nissan GT Academy Season Four
In case you weren’t keeping up with Season Four of Nissan GT Academy—and if you weren’t, you really should consider getting up to speed by watching on Hulu or YouTube—then you may not know the name Nicholas Hamman. If you’re a fan of motorsports, you likely will come to know his name well, as he […]
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Fourth Season of Nissan GT Academy Premieres Tonight
Update: You can check out the first episode, “Virtual to Reality,” below: *** Tonight marks the start of the fourth season of Nissan GT Academy, which premieres at 11:30 pm ET on Spike TV. The six-episode season will chronicle the quest of 12 contestants to translate their skills in Gran Turismo®6 on the PlayStation®3 into […]
France’s Gaëtan Paletou Crowned GT Academy 2014 European Race Camp Champion
Earlier this month, the NISMO PlayStation GT Academy 2014 European Race Camp ended with the victory of Gaëtan Paletou, a 22-year old gamer from Barzun in France. For those who are unfamiliar with GT Academy, it’s a collaboration between PlayStation and Nissan that invites the Gran Turismo video game franchise’s best players to try their […]
Ricardo Sanchez is Your GT Academy International Champ
Ricardo Sanchez of Mexico has won the title of Nissan PlayStation GT Academy International Champion and will now go on to four months in Nissan’s driver development program before inevitably making his professional debut for the Nissan NISMO race team in the January 2015 running of the Dubai 24 Hour race. Sanchez came out of […]
Nissan GT Academy Team RJN Snags Silverstone Win
Nissan GT Academy Team RJN took the victory at the Pro-Am this past Sunday at Silverstone. Nick McMillen’s No.80 GT-R NISMO GT3 took first place in the Blancpain Endurance Series event, putting them second in the Pro-Am Cup standings early in the season as they look to defend their 2013 title. McMillen, the 2013 GT […]
Start Your Consoles: Sixth GT Academy Competition Announced
Where arguably the most famous call-to-action in all of sports may well be “Gentlemen, start your engines,” the announcement that there will be a sixth GT Academy competition may leave one more inclined to bellow, “Gentlemen, grab your controllers!” Nissan and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have announced the sixth-annual installment in the NISMO Playstation® GT […]
Inaugural Nissan GT Academy Winner to Race in Super GT
Nissan’s GT Academy has stolen headlines across the automotive since its creation in 2008. The one-of-a-kind competition turns video gamers into professional race car drivers, but the transition to full competition doesn’t happen overnight. RELATED: Nissan Demonstrates Smart Rearview Technology in 2014 Rogue The first-ever Nissan GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordóñez, has spent the last […]
Nissan GT Academy Winner to Race ZEOD RC at Le Mans
The most legendary endurance race in the world, the Le Mans 24 Hours, will signal the intersection of two of Nissan’s most revolutionary concepts in the past decade. On one hand, you Nissan’s revolutionary electric racecar, the ZEOD RC, and on the other is the first-ever video-gamer turned professional racecar driver from Nissan’s famed GT […]
Nissan GT Academy Team Takes First at Dubai 24 Hours Race
NISMO’s four newest athletes—all gamers-turned-pros who achieved their dreams through the Nissan Playstation GT Academy 2013—joined inaugural GT Academy winner Lucas Ordonez at the podium at this past weekend’s Dubai 24 Hours. First Delivery: Check out the first 2016 Nissan Titan delivered to customers The Dubai 24 Hours raced marked the first appearances for GT […]
Nick McMillen Crowned Nissan GT Academy Champion
The third season of Nissan GT Academy has drawn to a close and with it has issues forth a new soon-to-be world champion (fingers crossed): motorcrosser Nick McMillen, a twenty-year-old with a big dream, became the season’s victor. McMillen earned the crown after the final live race in which he beat out three tough competitors, […]