A young man of 22 years in Spain, Lucas Ordonez is the protagonist of an incredible story: He could move his passion for car racing in the state of the gamer on PalyStation to pilot a race car in car competitions in the real world .
Ordonez wanted small to become a racing driver, but dropped acetic dream of lack of money. He could give up everything but his passion for racing cars and in his spare time, when not preparing his MBA, he started to play Grand Turismo and other games of genre on PlayStation.
In 2008, he enrolled in the European PlayStation competition, contest organized by Sony in an attempt to find the best “virtual driver. He won the tournament, surpassing a total of almost 25,000 competitors consierabil. As a prize, Ordonez was invited to represent their country at PlayStation GT Academy, a camp where gamers Pasino Car games can learn how to become a racing driver in the real world.
Young has changed as the PS controller and couch at home with a real race car on a real track. Contrary to popular belief that says that virtual drivers did nothing to do with driving in reality, Ordonez proved to be a talented pilot with a lot of potential. He continued to participate in small European competitions, the RJN Motorsport team Team, in the UK, managing to earn his pilot license professional.
He went on GTA Dubai International 24 Hour race, where, at the end of 451 laps and traveled 2431km in 24 hours, was ranked ninth of the league, tied with former Formula 1 pilot, Johnny Herbert, who then became mentor.
Still competing for the RJN Motorsports, Lucas Ordonez won a very important tournament, GTA Cup European Championship. After such a successful, orderly can fully enjoy both moral satisfaction, especially financial, of a pilot Careiului professional that wants to follow in the future.
Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of Grand Turismo series said processing order of gamer in the pilot’s success is a dream come true for him. “For ten years we hope to happen here all that. I always thought someone good at Gran Turismo could be as fast as a professional pilot, in fact, I think it could be even faster than that.” said Yamauchi.
Meanwhile, Sony is preparing for a 2010 GT Academy camp for an even higher number of candidates who will be elected all of the winners of a contest for Grand Turismo on PS3.