Gran Turismo gamers win one of motorsport's most challenging races

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Two gamers who earnt race seats thanks to their prowess at Gran Turismo took Nissan to success at one of the world's most daunting endurance events, as Wolfgang Reip and Florian Strauss helped take the RJN Motorsport Nissan GTR-35 to victory at the weekend's Bathurst 12 hours event.
It's one of the most significant victories for the programme, which plucks some of the world's top Gran Turismo players from specially organised leaderboards and puts them through a boot camp where the eventual victor is awarded a race seat.
The race, run around the daunting Mount Panorama circuit in New South Wales that winds up and down the side of a mountain, was interrupted by several safety car periods, including - as is typical for the event - one brought about when a kangaroo strayed on the track and took out one of the competing cars.
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