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Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver
An anonymous reader writes "Back in 2008, Lucas Ordonez lived what seemed like an ordinary existence. The 22-year-old Spanish student was an avid motorsports fan, but he lacked the suitable investment necessary to become a professional race driver and had virtually given up on racing. Besides, he was already knee-deep in trying to complete a Master of Business Administration (MBA). But it was Ordonez' passion for virtual racing, particularly his love of Gran Turismo, that made him stand out from his peers — both off the track and eventually on it. In just a few months, Ordonez' life was transformed from console dreamer to racing the real thing at a real race track in Europe. And Ordonez managed to do the unthinkable: go from the couch car to the race car, and win."
Just what we need - more people thinking that since they can play games they can do it in real life. Hide all the Guitar Hero/Rock Band addicts.
...Place!
Congrats to the kid. The best I ever did was become a plumber.
So I can become a SPARTAN? That would be so cool!
This has inspired me to follow through on my love of Modern Warfare into becoming a world class mercenary. I will then follow up with my love of WOW to a career as a successful blood elf. The future looks bright, and I look forward to proving myself right to so many people who told me my "hobbies" would never do me any good.
I think about 98% of gamers just had their hopes dashed when they read "fitness" as a requirement.
Yeah, I hear NASA has a real need for tritanium miners.
You mean I can't actually just keep the throttle wide open and use the handbrake to scoot around corners in a Mclaren F1 just like in Need for Speed??
I've lost all my marbles except one & It's fun to test angular & centripetal acceleration in my skull
As he tells it, he was in there a long time -- much longer than the recruits ahead of him had been. When he came out, the room was full of people, including officers, who were all staring at him.
He asked, "What's everybody looking at?
Someone replied, "The Buggers, son... you just wiped out the Buggers."
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
That's very similar to the story of how I was chosen to become a futuristic super-soldier fighting off an alien invasion.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
>For his expertise, he was rewarded with an all-expense-paid trip to Baghdad in 2003...
And in his tank, it goes something like this:
"Yea tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil...
for I am the biggest, badest, mother******er in the valley..."
The army had CD players in tanks during the Vietnam war??