Nissan PlayStation GT Academy won by Australian for first time - CarAdvice
Twenty-six-year-old Queensland native Matthew Simmons has taken out the 2015 Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition, becoming the first-ever Australian to win the gamer-sourced racing challenge. Now in its seventh year, the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy is a development competition created by Nissan, PlayStation and the people behind the iconic driving simulator Gran Turismo , aimed at turning bedroom gamers into professional racing drivers. Nissan Australia says Simmons is now on his way back home to pack his bags before moving to the UK to take part in an “intense” Nismo driver development program, where he’ll attempt to qualify for his international race licence ahead of officially... His first competitive outing will be the 2016 Dubai 24 Hours (January 15-16), where he’ll steer a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 – an identical car to that which won the 2015 Bathurst 12 Hour with the help of 2012 GT Academy Europe winner Wolfgang Reip and... Source: www.caradvice.com.au
