Jann Mardenborough

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    AOL Cars joins the Nissan GT Academy

    It took just three years for 2011 GT Academy winner Jann Mardenborough to prove the doubters

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    Bedroom gamer takes victory at Hockenheim GP3

    Video gamer turned racing driver Jann Mardenborough won his first international single-seater race on Saturday after entering the sport through the Sony and Nissan-sponsored PlayStation Academy โ€“ a competition to put a gamer behind a

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    Meet the bedroom gamer turned racing driver

    From bedroom gamer to real-life racing driver โ€“ it sounds like a pipe dream, but it's not. Nissan and PlayStation really do take gaming addicts and put them in their racing cars across the globe, but only the very best get the

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    Jann Mardenborough talks to AOL Cars about his recent signing to GP3

    A life-long dream of becoming a fully-fledged racing driver came true for Jann Mardenborough in 2011 when the young man from Darlington beat the competition to be crowned winner of the Nissan and PlayStation GT

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    ITV4 will broadcast infamous Nissan PlayStation GT Academy contest

    GT Academy challenges the conventions of motorsport by taking some of the speediest PlayStation gamers in the world and fast-tracking one of them to become a professional racing driver with Nissan. The series of high-octane, character-driven

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    GT Academy 2012 opens: your dream racing career starts here

    The 2012 Nissan PlayStation GT Academy has opened, giving anyone with a control pad and a dream another chance to following young gamer Jann Mardenborough into a real racing career. It's possibly the best competition ever. Apart from the

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    Videogamer starts real life racing career against living legend

    This weekend sees the latest GT Academy winner, 20-year-old Jann Mardenborough, begin his first full season as a real racing driver. We hate him. We hate him not only because he's managed to turn being quite good at Gran Turismo into doing