"Everybody was skeptical," Darren Cox told ESPN. Participants competed for a shot at a real-life professional racing career with Nissan. Cox's vision leveled up with the founding of the Nissan GT Academy in 2008, a competition and reality TV series funded by both Nissan and PlayStation. Participants competed in the video game, as well as on an actual track in hopes of winning a Nissan 350Z. A small event was held in 2006 to test Cox's concept. Cox believed that the realism of the Sony PlayStation Gran Turismo video game might mean that expert gamers would be able to translate their skill to a real-life track behind the wheel of an actual race car. Orlando Bloom's character is a fictionalized version of Darren Cox, a former Nissan Europe executive who came up with the idea for the GT Academy gamer-to-racer concept in 2006. Is Orlando Bloom's character in Gran Turismo, Danny Moore, based on a real person? Actor Archie Madekwe (right) portrays him in the movie. Jann Mardenborough (left) was the first British winner of GT Academy.
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