GT Academy 2014

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The 2014 GT Academy North American finals are coming up later this week, and with a motorsports career on the line and some of the best Gran Turismo players in the world behind the wheel, these will be the most competitive and dramatic online races seen anywhere – and you’ll be able to watch it all, live!

Every year, the top drivers who qualify for GT Academy jump into our forums to organize practice races with each other to prepare for regional finals, where they’ll be fighting for those precious few spots in Race Camp at Silverstone.

GT Academy 2014’s final qualifier, featuring RJN’s NISMO GT-R GT3 car at the always challenging Spa Francorchamps circuit, is one of the toughest in the competition’s history, and time is running out if you want to make the cut for regional finals.

Sony Computer Entertainment UK and the hugely popular Gran Turismo series return to the Goodwood Festival of Speed as an official partner for the second year running, and you can be there to join them!

The final online qualification round of GT Academy 2014 kicks off today, as the time trial which will be used to determine who moves on to regional finals around the world.

If you’re in an eligible European country, there’s a new way to qualify for GT Academy 2014, and you don’t even need a PlayStation 3 or a copy of GT6 – just a Facebook account!

Round 3 of GT Academy’s online qualification round officially kicks off today, bringing us one step closer to the final time trial which will ultimately determine who moves on to the national finals.

With GT Academy now two weeks old, the second round gets underway today.

Nissan has officially confirmed the GT Academy program is coming to the “Great White North” this year! After a long wait, GT Academy has “let Canada in” (with the province of Québec excluded for legal reasons), as the country joins the United States for the 2014 North American region of the global competition on April 21st.

The Kingdom of Thailand is the latest country to be added in a growing list of new nations participating in GT Academy for 2014, a country with a strong passion for motorsport.

Nissan and Sony is bringing GT Academy back to the Middle East after its successful maiden run last year. Inaugural winner Salman Al-Khater from Qatar placed first in class at the Britcar 1000km and Nissan is looking to repeat the accomplishment with a new Nismo Athlete for 2014.

The Nismo Australia Facebook page has posted details for the second live qualifier event in the 2014 GT Academy Australia competition. It will be held at the first Formula 1 race of the year, the Australian GP in Albert Park, Melbourne. It will be open starting Thursday the 13th until Sunday the 16th.

Nissan Australia has officially confirmed the GT Academy program is coming “Down Under”!

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GT Academy, the program which turns Gran Turismo gamers into professional race car drivers, is coming to the world’s second-most populous country: India.