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# A videogame racing champion is competing in a real professional race
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/videogame-racing-champion-competing-real-thing/
- Published: 2012-09-19T14:30:10.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:52:51.000Z
- Description: Not only will a Gran Turismo champ race at next month’s Petit Le Mans series, he’ll be racing Nissan’s futuristic and efficient rocket-ship-looking racer, the Delta Wing. For the 10-hour, 1,000-mile Petit le Mans race, Spaniard Lucas Ordonez will be driving, along with American Le Mans vet Gunnar Je
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/delta_wing.jpg)

Not only will a Gran Turismo champ [race at next month’s Petit Le Mans series](http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/09/deltawing-petit-leman/?utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed&utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29), he’ll be racing Nissan’s futuristic and efficient rocket-ship-looking racer, the Delta Wing.

> For the 10-hour, 1,000-mile Petit le Mans race, Spaniard Lucas Ordonez will be driving, along with American Le Mans vet Gunnar Jeannette. Ordonez was the winner of Nissan’s first [GT Academy](http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/academy/2012/?ref=killscreen.com) back in 2008, a competition in which drivers’ performance in Gran Turismo (yes, the video game) can win them a chance to race…  
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And now, we await the first Rock Band rock star!