The winner of Polyphony Digital’s GT Academy experiment - a competition that put players of the popular Gran Turismo racing game into the cockpit of an actual race car - has announced that he intends to continue with a career in motorsport.

Lucas Ordonez beat thousands of other contenders to win a spot in a Nissan [...]

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Maserati has unveiled its GranTurismo MC racer during an FIA GT media day at the Paul Ricard circuit in France. The MC is based on the Maserati GranTurismo S and is a development of the GranTurismo MC Corse concept car that was revealed last September.

Described as a gentleman’s racer, the Granturismo MC will be a [...]

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Under development for the past six months, Aston Martin has taken the wraps of its new GT4 race car. The GT4 is based on the new model 4.7L V8 Vantage road car and will take the reins from the outgoing 4.3L Vantage N24.

The new Aston will have some big shoes to fill with the N24 having won the [...]

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As if it wasn’t hardcore enough, Lotus has sent its roofless, windscreen-less and waif-like 2-Eleven to its in-house performance division Lotus Sport. The end result is a car that’s more manic, more focused and a hell of a lot more impractical than before.

Called the Lotus Sport 2-Eleven GT4 Supersport (let’s just call it the GT4, [...]

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Autocar have provided us with a glimpse of what the upcoming Toyota and Subaru joint venture sports coupe could look like. According to Autocar, top-secret sketches reveal the new coupe’s brief to be, lightweight, compact, RWD and fast.

There will most likely be both a Subaru and Toyota version of the coupe, both differing cosmetically but [...]

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Aston Martin have announced that they will be defending their 2007 GT1 title at Le Mans with two DBR9’s kitted out in the blue and orange Gulf Oil livery, that for me at least brings images of the Ford GT40 to mind. The two AM DBR9’s are looking to recreate Gulf’s first victory at Le [...]

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Aston Martin have set out to get us all drooling again…and its worked. Due to be unveiled at next week’s Autosport International Show in Birmingham, Aston Martin have released a sketch of their new Vantage GT2 race car. Based on the Vantage V8 road car, the GT2 racer is designed to operate on either standard [...]

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Ford have announced a limited run of special edition Focus ST500’s of which just 500 will made available to UK customers for £20,495. Based on the top-of-the-range Focus ST3 the ST500 includes a number of unique features, such as metallic black paintwork with silver bonnet, roof and side stripes which Ford hope will remind us [...]

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