GT Academy 2010 will go live on December 17th, and will use the virtual world of the new PlayStation Gran Turismo5 game to find a real-world racing driver.
The stakes are high, with an intensive race training programme and a season-long drive in a full race-spec Nissan 370Z in the European GT4 Cup as the ultimate prize.
GT Academy 2010 is the second instalment of the competition.
For 2008/09, Lucas Ordonez, a 23-year-old Spanish student, graduated from his PlayStation3 console to become a full-on racing driver via the GT Academy.
After a debut in the Dubai International 24 Hour race alongside former F1 driver Johnny Herbert, Lucas teamed-up with British driver Alex Buncombe to campaign a Nissan 350Z.
Driving for the RJN Motorsport GT Academy team, the pair took part in the full European GT4 Cup season, mostly run alongside the prestigious FIA GT series.
Two race wins and two second-place finishes left them an agonisingly close second in the drivers' classification, but winners of the Teams' Championship.
The success of Nissan and PlayStations' 'experiment' spurred them on to make GT Academy 2010 even bigger and better.
The online section of the new series will run from 17 December until 24 January with national finals following soon afterwards.
For more information on the GT Academy for 2010, visit www.facebook.com/GTAcademy
Posted on 07.12.2009
