After completing an intensive three-month Driver Development Programme, rated among the best in the world, the five global GT Academy 2014 champions will qualify for the ultimate prize - driving a Nissan in the gruelling Dubai 24 Hour race in January next year. Champions will be selected in 2014 from competitions in Europe, Germany, USA and a new International GT Academy comprising Australia, India, Middle East, Mexico and Thailand. Lucas and 2012 GT Academy champion Wolfgang Reip (Belgium) will also contest this summer's Le Mans 24 Hour race in Nissan's fascinating ZEOD RC ‘Garage 56' entry.įuelled by this success, GT Academy's global footprint continues to grow. Meanwhile, inaugural-winner, Spaniard Lucas Ordoñez takes his talents overseas in 2014 to race for NISMO in the competitive Japanese Super GT Championship. His meteoric rise since winning GT Academy in 2011 sees him racing for Arden International while also undertaking a Red Bull Racing Driver Development Programme. Briton Jann Mardenborough, a Le Mans 24-hour podium finisher, will compete in Formula One TM feeder series GP3 in 2014. Proof of the success of the virtual-to-reality competition can be seen in the stunning on-track results of its graduates. Manufacturing, Research and Development.
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