GT Blog http://www.gran-turismo.com/sg/blog/ This is the official blog of Gran Turismo series producer, Kazunori Yamauchi. en 2009-10-09T22:00:01+08:00 To the Nürburgring 2 http://www.gran-turismo.com/sg/blog/d8462.html This PSP version is of course on a portable device with a broader range of users, so it's been made friendlier for beginners knocking on the doors of GT for the first time, and also for those who may have abandoned GT in the past because of the perhaps overly stoic, path-finding nature of the game. Unfortunately, those expecting that truly stoic GT experience will have to wait for GT5. But in this PSP version with its more casual playing style, I'm hoping people will just have fun gaining lot's and lot's of cars, the tempo of the game, and it's adhoc head to head play as a party game.
I hope everyone reading this blog gets a chance to try it out.


Now, continuing on from where we left off…
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The call was from international motor journalist, Peter Lyon.
My heart immediately thumped hard, and I was at a loss for words momentarily, but I sort of recall replying "Yes, yes of course I will" about a second later.

I love cars, and I love to drive cars, but I had intentionally placed a distance between myself and this thing called "racing".
It's because my life, or my work itself, is a series of challenges much like racing already, and I always thought I'd have to be crazy to take on any more challenges than I already deal with.

I think the reason I slipped and took that invitation for something I had intentionally banned myself from, is probably because of the word "Nurburgring".
I probably would have declined, if it wasn't THE "Nurburgring".
For a car enthusiast, the Nurburgring is the equivalent to what places like the "Eiger Nordwand" or "Mount Everest" means to a mountaineer. There is that special allure about it that you just can't explain in words. It was the great mountaineer Mallory who said "Because it's there", about climbing the Everest, and the Nurburgring, is a place where you are tempted to say something like; "because there's a road".

I succumbed to the allure of the Nurburgring.
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