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Simulation Racing Leagues => Assetto Corsa => Topic started by: Dick Forrest on July 15, 2014, 04:35:17 PM

Title: Australian Nissan GT Academy finalists ready to take on the world in Silverstone
Post by: Dick Forrest on July 15, 2014, 04:35:17 PM: IF YOU told someone 20 years ago that a car company was turning video gamers into real racing car drivers they would laugh in your face. But for 28 Aussie hopefuls, that’s exactly what they were hoping to happen at the Australian Nissan GT Academy finals over the weekend.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/design/australian-nissan-gt-academy-finalists-ready-to-take-on-the-world-in-silverstone/story-fnjwucvh-1226989735084

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Title: Re: Australian Nissan GT Academy finalists ready to take on the world in Silverstone
Post by: marty on July 15, 2014, 04:52:26 PM: Why arent they all using ps3 controllers and why havent they put them in the real Nissans yet.
Title: Re: Australian Nissan GT Academy finalists ready to take on the world in Silverstone
Post by: Guybrush Threepwood on July 15, 2014, 05:32:03 PM: I was just thinking, Gran Turismo is the perfect game to measure someone's real life driving ability :o
Title: Re: Australian Nissan GT Academy finalists ready to take on the world in Silverstone
Post by: marty on July 15, 2014, 05:40:01 PM: Here is one that should have stuck to the Playstation. :)

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Though some of the guys driving the GT3 GTR are pretty good drivers and I think most of them came through this. Still the quickest guys in any game or sim will need to know the basics just starting out in Gran Tourismo means they need to unlearn most of the habits that made them quicker there.