Gran Turismo

2011 GT Academy winner Bryan Heitkotter races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Challenge Series.

Ever imagined how the real Tokyo Route 246 in GT5 would look in real life? Here is your chance. Youtube user fhd258789 uploaded a video coomparison of the famous GT5 track vs the real deal.

830,000 GT Academy competitors have now been whittled down to just 6! Who will be crowned European GT Academy 2012 winner? Then again... by now, we allready know.

And we have a winner! ... Belgian student Wolfgang "Wolfie" Reip beat 830,000 gamers from across Europe to become this year's GT Academy European winner! Iracing members may know Wolfgang as a fast alien in the iR races. Congratulations from all the community!.

Since it's inception, GT Academy's spiritual home has been at the Silverstone race track in Northamptonshire, Great Britain. We asked the GT Academy 2012 mentors what the iconic circuit meant to them. GT Academy Race Camp was honoured to hosted a very special guest this year, creator of the Gran Turismo franchise and racer Kazunori Yamauchi.

GT Academy team Italia demonstrate their car control skills in the drifting challenge.

As part of the Race Camp, the gamers get the opportunity to demonstrate their race craft through the fast and furious karting challenge. Switzerland, Austria and Poland mentor Sebastien Buemi guides us through the event.

36 Gamers from around Europe converge on Silverstone for GT Academy Race Camp. Only one will be victorious in the ultimate virtual to reality test.

GTune 5 is the new must-have tuning app for Gran Turismo 5. It is home to the patent pending inTune tuning system. inTune allows you to quickly adapt an existing tune for use on other cars in your GT5 garage. This eliminates the need to tune each car individually, and allows you to focus on what really matters - hitting apexes and winning races!

Sony announces a brand new version of Gran Turismo 5 that will be heading your way early this Autumn to celebrate the fourth year of the collaboration with Nissan on the ground-breaking GT Academy programme.