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[Jensonb]

This guy just got a contract to race cars after winning a video game challenge??? Lucas Ordoñez won the first GT Academy time-trial contest, and is now signed with Team Signatech Nissan in the Le Mans Cup series and will even get to drive in one of the world’s most famous races in a few months, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. There might just be light at the end of the tunnel for all those hours spent playing video games. Next up, top players in Socom and Modern Warfare will be dropped off in Afghanistan to see how well they adapt to the real deal. Good Luck!

If you can't see how racing games are more similar to actual racing than combat games are to actual armed conflict, there's little more to be said.

I took this of Pharrell Williams blog lmao!! Not my own words, yet I did find it funny though...Hmmm? But Com'On JB this is a joke? If I can beat Fernando Alonso's time in a Ferrari in real life against 25,000 other online drivers I can now take Alonso's place? The difference in game and life is off the scale. This to me is a boys dream!! but then Racing should be for the superior driver not geek...But it does say he has karting experience? So do i!!!

That's not really what happened though, is it? He won a competition, so they let him ty out, and he was good enough that they signed him.

[Jamie]

Right so if he's "OK" he's good enough to drive yet there are so many talented drivers on the sidelines that can't get seats and they find a guy that's "OK" and sign him up with sponsors? It's hard for drivers to get sponsors let alone race seats and this guy is good @ game and he wins a contract. One word and it would be censored so heres the emoticon


it's not good at all, we all complain about these so called drivers that get on the f1 grid and it's because they are all average drivers with decent sponsors yet look @ there records and they were 7th in Gp2 yet the winner of the series is struggling to get a seat @ HRT? Not good and this is an example of ridiculous'ness.

A game is a game, Life is life.

Put me in a Formula Renault and if I am ok should I get the drive or should a driver that has pure talent and has a reasonable amount of experience?


I know this field very well As I used to Kart and tried to get a seat @ a Formula Ford racing team. i was let down because a kid had more money than me? Yet I was better and was better in Karts.

[Gaz]

Right so if he's "OK" he's good enough to drive yet there are so many talented drivers on the sidelines that can't get seats and they find a guy that's "OK" and sign him up with sponsors? It's hard for drivers to get sponsors let alone race seats and this guy is good @ game and he wins a contract. One word and it would be censored so heres the emoticon


it's not good at all, we all complain about these so called drivers that get on the f1 grid and it's because they are all average drivers with decent sponsors yet look @ there records and they were 7th in Gp2 yet the winner of the series is struggling to get a seat @ HRT? Not good and this is an example of ridiculous'ness.

A game is a game, Life is life.

Put me in a Formula Renault and if I am ok should I get the drive or should a driver that has pure talent and has a reasonable amount of experience?


I know this field very well As I used to Kart and tried to get a seat @ a Formula Ford racing team. i was let down because a kid had more money than me? Yet I was better and was better in Karts.

To be fair to the guy there was a full tv series for this where they a ladder system.

The Game was a free update that you could install which gave you access to a Nissan 350z with a locked setup and access to one track configuration. 1.2Million People downloaded it i belive.

You then had unlimited attempts to drive around and post a time.

Then they took the top drivers out of that and asked them to attend an event were around 25,000 them thoughout europe

They Whittled that down to 32 People the 32 then have more live national final and they are halfed to 16.

Of the 16 they actually get to drive cars, and have various other fitness, and stamina tests.

Out of the 16 its whittled down to 1 so this guy must be pretty good.

After that he raced i Nissan's GT4 series and got a podium so they've let him have ago at Lemans.

So its all Talent no money.

[Jamie]

Point made, thankyou Gaz. I re tract what I have said.

[killem2]

Right so if he's "OK" he's good enough to drive yet there are so many talented drivers on the sidelines that can't get seats and they find a guy that's "OK" and sign him up with sponsors? It's hard for drivers to get sponsors let alone race seats and this guy is good @ game and he wins a contract. One word and it would be censored so heres the emoticon


it's not good at all, we all complain about these so called drivers that get on the f1 grid and it's because they are all average drivers with decent sponsors yet look @ there records and they were 7th in Gp2 yet the winner of the series is struggling to get a seat @ HRT? Not good and this is an example of ridiculous'ness.

A game is a game, Life is life.

Put me in a Formula Renault and if I am ok should I get the drive or should a driver that has pure talent and has a reasonable amount of experience?


I know this field very well As I used to Kart and tried to get a seat @ a Formula Ford racing team. i was let down because a kid had more money than me? Yet I was better and was better in Karts.

Lets not give racing drivers that much credit. It isn't like Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonzo, or Mark Webber went to college for 8 years to become racing drivers. They practice and practice. To me there three components to racing.

Courage
Fitness
Sharp Mind



Because no matter how fit you are and how eye coordinated you are at anticipating the curves and such, if you can't trust in the machines ability to take care of you, the rest won't matter. Then comes fitness, you could have no fear sure, and you could be as smart and alert as they come but if you can't physically take the abuse of a racing car you just can't do it.

The good thing is, fitness is probably the easiest of the three to change, he already came into the arena with the know how, and if he proved he isn't scared of driving a REAL car then all that is left is to get into shape.

You seem to have this idea that because Professionals went through the ranks they some how "paid" their dues. What about a guy who just owned his own track and in his own time just practiced practiced but no one ever heard of them and they walked on. There are "walk-ons" in just about every sport in the world professional or college.