John Moorby from Macclesfield and Alex Ingram from Edinburgh to represent UK in the Nissan PlayStation® GT Academy International Final

The race is on to win a season-long drive in a Nissan 370Z GT in the European GT4 Cup Brands Hatch, Kent, 17 February 2010 – Sony Computer Entertainment UK and Nissan Motor (GB) Limited have announced 32-year-old John Moorby a programmer from Macclesfield and 22-year-old student Alex Ingram from Edinburgh as the UK qualifiers of the Nissan PlayStation® GT Academy.

The pair will now go onto represent the UK, against gamers from 17 countries at the international final staged at Silverstone Circuit from 26 February – 2 March. From the 20 competitors who travelled to Brands Hatch from around the UK, only Moorby and Ingram will keep their PlayStation®3 (PS3™) loungeroom racing dream alive.

They will now see if they can transfer their gaming skills to the  real  track  at  Silverstone,  where  the  fastest  gamers  from  around  the  world  will  undergo  a  rigorous  training programme for the chance to become a real racing driver.

Tensions were high as the UK’s most talented PlayStation racers battled it out at Brands Hatch, competing over a series of online races staged on a specially designed version of the hugely popular Gran Turismo™ game. The final gaming heat of the day was staged on the world-famous Nürburgring circuit. Moorby and Ingram crossed the line in first and second positions to qualify for the next stage of GT Academy 2010