Nissan GT Academy Brings Us “Back to Basics”

Oct 26, 2015

The Nissan GT Academy originally began back in 2008 when the Nissan NISMO racing team decided to give experienced gamers a chance to see if they could put their stellar skills playing racing games to use in actual race cars. The challenge ended up being a success and the winner of that first season ended up going on to become an extremely successful driver for the Nissan brand.

In the seven years since that inaugural season, the brand has gone on to name a total of 21 winners in their GT Academy some of which have gone on to have the same type of success as the first winner, while others have found that the real world competition to be more difficult than expected.

The Nissan brand has decided to go “Back to Basics” with a look back at the story of all of the different winners from over the years. In doing so, they will be releasing a 20-part series on the NISMO TV YouTube channel. The first episode will offer a look back at the history of the GT Academy and discuss the series of events that led to its creation. Each of the following 19 episodes with then each focus on one of the winners highlighting the journey of their win and showing where they are now.

You can see the first episode of “Back to Basics” in the video below.