“There are things that you couldn’t know without actually racing a car on the track.” “I’ve been racing the Nürburgring for the last five years, and there’s a lot of technology that’s been fed back directly to ‘Gran Turismo’ from the discoveries made on that track,” says Yamauchi. In 20, he drove a Nissan GT-R and took first place for the SP8 class in the same race. He returned to that same track in 2010 to earn a 4th place finish in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. He began his career in 2009 when he joined the Gazoo Racing Team and raced on the Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany in a Lexus IS-F, earning a team-best fastest lap time of 10 minutes and 9 seconds to help the team win the SP8 class. Yamauchi is a professional race car-driver. His virtual driving has translated to real vehicles and tracks. “Right now the car that I want to buy is the Corvette Z7,” Yamauchi tells ‘Men’s Journal,’ who admits he uses his video game to test-drive vehicles before trying them out in the real world. Not quite the 1,200 virtual vehicles in ‘ Gran Turismo 6‘ (GT6), which comes out on Friday, December 6 for PlayStation 3, but still an impressive lineup. When he’s not developing the next installment in Sony’s ‘Gran Turismo’ franchise, which has sold 70 million copies and counting, Kazunori Yamauchi is likely behind the wheel of a car. Yamaouchi has two Ford GTs, a VW Golf R32, a Porsche GT3, a Nissan GT-R, a Mercedes SL55 AMG, a Honda S2000, and a Nissan 370Z.
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