{"id":75314,"date":"2013-02-10T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T20:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75314"},"modified":"2013-02-10T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T20:11:30","slug":"expert-gran-turismo-drivers-can%e2%80%99t-race-in-real-life-because-they%e2%80%99re-too-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75314","title":{"rendered":"Expert &#8220;Gran Turismo&#8221; Drivers Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Race In Real Life Because They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Too Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since it launched in 2008, Nissan&#8217;s GT Academy has repeatedly done something previously thought to be absurd and unrealistic: It has taken people who are really, really good at Gran Turismo and put them in the seats of actual race cars. Look at Spaniard Lucas Ordo\u00c3\u00b1ez, who successfully went from gamer to pro driver through the program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But now the latest crop of GT Academy winners have run into a bit of a roadblock on their path to real-life racing glory: They won&#8217;t be allowed to compete in this year&#8217;s British GT Championship, according to GT Planet. Why?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5982998\/gt-academy-drivers-cant-race-in-real-life-because-theyre-too-fast\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it launched in 2008, Nissan&#8217;s GT Academy has repeatedly done something previously thought to be absurd and unrealistic: It has taken people who are really, really good at Gran Turismo and put them in the seats of actual race cars. Look at Spaniard Lucas Ordo\u00c3\u00b1ez, who successfully went from gamer to pro driver through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,25,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-video_games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75315,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75314\/revisions\/75315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}