Nissan/Playstation GT Academy winner to go from armchair to racing seat at Le Mans

Lucas Ordonez is a 25-year-old Spaniard who began competing in Nissan and Playstation's GT Academy when it first got started back in 2008. Of the initial 25,000 participants, Lucas weeded himself out as the quickest and was given the chance to take his skills from Gran Turismo to a real race track. Three years on, Lucas is preparing himself to take on a full LeMans Cup schedule in 2011.

Lucas' season begins in March, behind the wheel of a Signatech Nissan LMP2 machine at the 12 Hours of Sebring in Florida. From there, it's on to the holy grail, the 24 Hours of LeMans, followed by five more LeMans Cup races across the globe.

There are likely to be more people like Lucas coming down the pike: the European GT Academy will start its fourth installment on March 4, and Nissan and Gran Turismo recently started the American version. More details can be found in the official release after the jump. Thanks to everyone for the tips!

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Noble M600 supercar enters production

Since 2008, we have been speaking about the Noble M600. It was officially released in 2009 and the crew at Top Gear UK got to test one before 2010. After that there was no news about it but Noble has finally announced the first M600 off the factory production line. This super car sports a twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter Yamaha V8 with three power levels for road, track and race. An Adaptable Performance Control switch will vary the output between each level, letting the engine produce the horse power as needed.

Couple that with a curb weight of just 2,775 pounds, and you've a great recipe for 0-60 times around three seconds or less and an estimated top speed of 225 miles per hour. Only one's been built so far, but Noble claims it has orders for a full 50. At £200,000 a pop, the M600 should make the company a pretty penny assuming it doesn't take them a decade to deliver.

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Lotus Extrema new creation of Tuner UK Garage

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Car tuners have created their best respective place in international car market and it's proved because now a days these car tuners are in big demand and their tuned cars are getting much more response comparison to the cars made by any branded company actually car tuners gives very impressive look and modifies the features of cars and provides desired feature what a car owner desire, I think due to this reason their requirement is increasing.
UK Garage is the world's famous tuner and this Italian tuner is very familiar for its extra-ordinary working capability and it has been presented many of its cars previously and all its cars have satisfied its owners and now to be in its present position it exposed its latest Lotus Extrema having mind-blowing look and all its excellent features must impress you.

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This new impressive car of UK Garage gets excellent arrangement of its engine area which is 2.6-litre among 360hp (265kW) by 2.8-litre produce 450hp (331kW) plus 560hp (412kW) 3.4-litre don't think its so heavy total weight of these three engine is only 95 Kg and the total weight of this car is only 750kg.
Due to powerful engine of Lotus Extrema this car can easily achieve 100km/h in just 2.8 seconds and its maximum speed is 320km/h and to provide it lightweight quality aluminum chassis has been used and it's suggested price by UK Garage is 66,000 taxes included.

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SpeedHunters : The world fastest S13

As a good portion of Speedhunters readers are partial to machines from the land of the rising sun, one of our goals at Speed Week was to collect images of all the Japanese cars at the event. Although Bonneville is very much the stronghold of American evolved rods, lakesters and muscle machines, Japanese cars do have a reasonable presence at the event.
So I knew I was on to a winner when I spotted this red S13 in the startline area of the Salt flats a few days ago.

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