David Coulthard (former Formula 1 racer) beats Gran Turismo 5 gamer in a race by 0.5 seconds.

[Booh!]

TWRoO said:

Machina said:

Talking of GT and Top Gear... I remember, ages ago on Top Gear (around GT 3's release I think?), when Jeremy Clarkson raced around the real version of one of the tracks in the game and attempted to beat a lap time posted in the game using the same car. That was great. Was pretty close too iirc.

Close?

If you mean when he drove a Honda NSX round that American track (the one with the famous "corkscrew" turn... can't recall the track name*) he got no where near his in game time.... I think he did a 1:40 ish in game (how many attempts it took I don't know, the show seemed to indicate he only had the one go, if that's true then I assume he had played before) but after hours had only scraped under 2:00 in real life.

*Laguna Seca!... that was the track.

edit: ok google helped me find out it was 1:41 in game and he finished with a 1:57 in real life.

Let's talk about gt5 instead: