GT Academy ("GT Academy provided skilled Gran Turismo players an opportunity to earn a real-life professional racing career with Nissan") seems to have spawned a couple of interesting real-life drivers, I wonder why they stopped doing it after 2016?
Would also be interesting to see a Microsoft Flight Simulator edition of the same thing :)
Some digging into why this suddenly dropped off in 2016. It appears the person that architected and pushed for this internally at Nissan left the company in 2015. No surprise that corp decided to kill the program <1 year later. Probably very expensive to run or sponsor an F1
-3 organization
MS already sponsors Excel competitions. So why not flight simulator.
Would also be interesting to see a Microsoft Flight Simulator edition of the same thing :)