Our winner, Drew Forster.
The final of the nationwide GT5P competition took place last night, deep down in a carpark at London’s Marble Arch, and the winner, we are happy to say, was one of our users, Drew Forster from the HMV Edinburgh heat (PSN moniker bicycleshorts, if you fancy a race). Second place went to Gavin Dempster with Christian Chapman coming in a very respectable third.
On winning Drew said, “It was fantastic. We get to go to Le Mans as the prize, though I might give this to my mum and dad. In the race itself we were all very close, doing 2.5 minute and 2.6 minute laps; and then in the final race I got two minutes dead, which was fast enough to win it!”
“I wasn’t that bothered about winning until we were in the pod and then I felt it. I met the other guys, who are all really sound, so it was kind of a shame we had to compete, but it was good fun.” Nice chap.
The new Nissan GTR.
The event also saw of the unveiling of the very mean looking brand new Nissan GTR. Apparently the model on show sells for £60,000, with the top of the range model, yours for a whopping £350,000, containing a function designed by Kazunori Yamouchi, which communicates with the driver on the condition of the car at all times.
The burgers at the event weren’t bad either.
Here’s more photographs of the event.
(L-R) Christian Chapman (third place), Rosemary Buahin - Sony’s Trade Marketing Manager, Drew Forster (winner) and Gavin Dempster (second place).
Our winner gets interviewed by Reuters.
A rather lovely Ford GT.
A couple of the Pirelli girls.
The Nissan GTR.
Pirelli trousers in full effect!
Close up in the pods.
The race pods.
All the Pirelli girls.
Ahh - so this is why GT5P was not put up last night.
“Technical problems” meaning, “our techies were chatting up the lovely ladies clad in yellow skin tight outfits”.
Comment by Andy — Mar 28, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
Lovin it!
Comment by E-ROLE — Mar 28, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
That looked a lot of fun
Comment by linton — Mar 28, 2008 @ 6:15 pm
Drinkin and drivin?
Comment by LordOfRuin — Mar 28, 2008 @ 6:16 pm
haha well done guys brilliant i knew they were gunna hold the event somewhere like that! never stop laughing i bet it was good fun and the pirelli girls ;), but well done to the Winner and the runners up!
Comment by Marky264 — Mar 28, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
well done Dru!!
from his favorite cousin!
Comment by Michael Pearson — Mar 28, 2008 @ 7:43 pm
Did they download it or was it on a Blu-Ray disc?
Comment by Ton Capone — Mar 28, 2008 @ 9:24 pm
Haha, I look like a bit of a tit in some of those pictures. Fantastic night though, I’ve got a few pictures of the cars, I’ll chuck the links up when I host them (if I remember, lol..).
The username is: bicycleshorts, all one word btw, though I’m rarely online
Comment by Dru — Mar 29, 2008 @ 1:50 am
nice pods!!
Comment by mobiletone — Mar 30, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
SWEET congrats dru!!! ill buy u a cheaky pint the next time were out m8, obtw i hope that ur GF wasnt too jealous of the Pirelli girls
not that they are any at all tho 
Comment by JAMBOOOO — Mar 30, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
@ Dru - Easy Dru! Good to meet you and well done again. Top night. Fixed the username btw. Take care, TS.
Comment by Three Speech — Mar 31, 2008 @ 9:30 am
Nice work fellas, well done
mmmm Pirelli trousers…
Comment by lxd — Mar 31, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
I would add you for a race liek this thread suggests etcept for the fact you can’t race your frinds in GT5p!
Bot of an oversight TS!
Comment by TheShirts — Mar 31, 2008 @ 2:41 pm
Sorry, having a typo day!
Comment by TheShirts — Mar 31, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
is there a multiplayer offline mode 4 this game i realy want to play with friends and family offline
Comment by beeeeaaall! — Apr 2, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
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