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Nurburgring has become the performance benchmark race circuit for sports cars manufacturers, almost every week there’s a new car trying to beat the record, and the new record is here: 7:26.4 (with the GT-R making 7:29.2) and it belongs to the Corvette ZR1 2009, this new record has caused some controversy and  continues being debated in specialized forums, because of that the guys at Garage 419 made their own test as you can see below.

Personally I’m NOT a fan of the whole “American Muscle” thinking cars, i prefer a small engine with the best engineering on it, so in the table below you can see the specs for both cars with the price included, if I could buy a car, with no hesitation i would choose the GT-R.

Of course The GT-R is by far a better car, it has 150HP and 240 N.m less and 200Kgs more than the ZR1, USD$30,000.00 less and just 3 seconds down… An obvious choice!!!

I found 4 powerful reasons to buy a PS3, and these are:

1) Metal Gear Solid 4: (?????????4)

2) Final Fantasy XIII: (???????????XIII)

3) Initial D: (?????)D

and,
4) Gran Turismo 5:

I’ve played 1 & 2 since PS1 and 3 & 4 since PS2 and i’m sure (as you can see in the trailers or read in reviews) with these games everyone have enough reasons to ask for vacations and stay at home playing.

Via nihoncar.com I found out that registrations for the Best Prize Ever are now OPEN, sadly I can’t afford a PS3 right now!.

GT Academy Terms and Conditions

The terms with capital letters set out below have special meanings:

Competition:
The GT Academy competition comprising an online Time Trial and a National Final as described herein

Prize:
the opportunity to participate in a four day event at Silverstone and a further chance to win an intensive motor racing training course and a place as a driver with an experienced motor racing team at the Dubai 2009 24 hour race

Promoter:
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd with a registered office at 10 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7LP

Terms and Conditions:

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Via nihoncar.com i found out that Nissan and Polyphony Digital have allied to bring us, every Sport Cars fanatics in the world the Best Prize we could ever dream of.

In one hand we have Nissan, the Japanse vehicle company manufacturer of the Best Most powerful GT SuperCar of Japan, the Nissan Skyline R35 GT-R and in the other hand there is Polyphony Digital the makers of Gran Turismo, again the Best and only one real driving simulator game right now!.

So, what is this all about?:

It’s simple. What you need is a PS3, a connection to the Playstation Network (PSN), and a copy of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Now you can enter and compete in the GT Academy and, one hotlap at a time, rank up to become the only winner. And what a prize! The lucky (and talented) guy (come on girls!) who comes out number one will be offered four months training to earn a racing license, then will compete with the Nissan Team behind the wheel of a Nissan 350Z at the Dubai 24h early next year!.

What could be a better prize than taking 4 months of racing driving lessons with the Pro’s and after that competing in a world class competition, goodbye Gaming Cellphone, welcome savings for a PS3 !!!