I was lucky enough to meet Jann Mardenbrough at my local karting track 2 years ago, he’s such a nice guy, and I was fortunate to meet him. I will always have huge respect for him.
For those that think these are just games, Max Verstappen, the current F1 world champion, is one of the most active simracers in the world. And in his position he could race in whatever category he wanted to, but instead he prefers to do simracing to try different categories. These "games" have gotten that good over the years.
Blanket statements like this don't tell the whole story, not all games are created equal. You have sim racing games and you have arcade racing games, (and simcade, which falls somewhere in the middle) sim racing games is what Max Verstappen is playing.
And on this day and age where sim racing developers going all out with laser scanning a whole circuit and getting direct access to many car manufacutres just to make it as close as possible, just state for itself. This is as close as we can get from a bedroom to an actual race car
Who was his dad playing for unless I have it confused I might see his dad watching his other brother or potential maybe cousin play at my local non League side I believe it his brother who did play for Wales. Although the name of this Jann's mum doesn't match the guy I know who was commenting on fans of a higher side slating him as he returned to our club. But the person who is apparently his mum mentioned Jann on Facebook I have no idea if she loosely related like a Stepmum to him and this guy is her actual son.
I was invited to the GT Academy Finals at Silverstone in 2014. I wasn't good enough to qualify on the Gran Turismo 6 route, but I had entered an online competition and scored highly enough to be invited to the Silverstone finals. Unfortunately, I couldn't go as I didn't have a driving license at the time.
But remember, you proved you’re good enough to have that opportunity. That’s cool you entered online competitions and did well. I did iracing with my 3 closest friends for a long time. I have 2 highlights. A photo finish win and I had the opportunity to race against former wwe star bob holly who loves iracing. He gives great advice for newbies and he explains everything no matter what the question. His knowledge helped me and my friends figure out road courses. Our struggles on them ended with his advice.
@@Denverbroncos87Amazing story. Both of you. I can't afford racing, not even sim racing which can be as expensive. I could barely scrape together enough for a few local karting sessions.
@@hishamhilal8332 I was too right there. Me and 2 friends couldn’t afford it. But our other friend ( there was 4 of us) His dad and step mom had great jobs. His step mom was a model from Japan. His dad worked in a factory with my dad . Due to his step mom being a model, she knows a lot of people. 1 of her closest friends is Michelle yeow. Her husband Jean todt is a good guy. Doesn’t say much. When we all graduated college they bought 4 racing sims so we can race whenever. Michelle and Jean had 1 rule we couldn’t race unless we turned 21, did well in college if any of us graduated before the others, and earned by our actions. I miss every off from work, we’d race and have a great time randomly picking which tracks to do and if we did daytona/talladega we’d draft together. I haven’t raced since 2017. I’m now married. 36, but even though all of us got bullied, dealing with that is how we became good friends. I most likely will never race again. But. Idk player TH-cam channel has my iracing fire going. I enjoy watching his streams of iracing. Bob holly is 1 celebrity/race car driver I miss racing against. A hilarious 1 to race against is jewel. The singer. She was hilarious. She made even the worst wrecks and people angry to laughing and forgetting about it. Edits: mistakes I made typing. Typing the wrong words by typing to fast and not reading it back before I commented, I asked Michelle and Jean what the rules were for us to race.
@@hishamhilal8332 you can get a G27/29 for like 100 bucks and a copy of Assetto Corsa Ultimate Edition for less than 10 during sales, simracing is nowhere as expensive as it used to be
jann grew up in the house next to my mum, janns mum still lives there and I always ask how he's getting on especially when he was in Japan, about a 2 years ago he bought a ferrari which proves his success, and he also brought home a 370z nizmo and let me get a little ride in it, he is absolutely amazing and he loves cars and racing, any time he's home I always speak to him
As much as I enjoyed the film, it's incredible to me that they took Jann's story and somehow made it LESS interesting by disregarding many of the details to make it a better advertisement for the PS5/GT7. I really wish they'd committed more to telling the true story, and not just a story based on a true story.
If they put how Jann still raced at Le Mans (with the GT-R LM Nismo) weeks after the Nurburgring crash instead of using it as a plot device for a race that actually happened in 2013, the film will still be good enough for me. The disregard of details for entertainment kinda bugs me
I really enjoyed the film. I didnt know much about him, but it did open the door to me learning a lot more about him. The movie did take some "liberties" with his story, but I still felt it was a good movie for non-racing fans and racing fans would enjoy it. A bit of a disappointing decision to make a crash that happened a couple years after the movie as a big story element, especially when it resulted in the loss of life though. Kinda felt like they turned a tragedy into a opportunity without paying proper respects to the individual who died and Janns story. However, it was a good movie, the acting was good, the story (minus the crash) was good, and the cinematics were amazing.
Especially when they played up Jann’s injuries (irl he had little to no injuries and walked off), I feel it wouldve been more proper to show what actually happened, which was Jann breaking down crying because he realized his car had killed someone just trying to watch a race.
We have a same story in Hungary. Norbert Michelisz. Touring car world CUP winner and 2 times independent champion also started his carrier from the Simworld.
He's a terrific racer. Hope he's got a seat for next year somewhere, if not during this one. Getting away from Nissan might be the best thing to happen to him given the increase in the hypercar grid (taking over from LMP1) in the last couple of years. More manufacturers are due to join, so it's possible we'll see him up the front again. Very proud of my young countryman! 🏴
Honestly i really think a move to Toyota/Lexus could prove beneficial. As far as manufacturers go in Japan (if he still wanted to get into the Japanese scene), Toyota is currently the only brand that has a variety of racing programmes to get into (especially compared to what Nissan has right now). Toyota/Lexus is currently developing a brand new GT3 car for WEC and other GT series use and it can also be used as a clear stepping stone if he really wants to go to the Hypercar class.
@@AbrahamArthemius that’s not a bad shout - it’s rumoured that AKKodis ASP are parting ways with Mercedes to run Toyota’s WEC GT3 team, which means they’ll be in need of new Pro drivers to replace the factory Merc drivers
@@theocousins6386 Yup, the AKKodis rumour will prove to be a good one if it turns out to be true. Of course they will use the RC F GT3 as a place holder for the GT3 in 2025, but that old gurl can still kick newer machines in the right hand (Vasser Sullivan in IMSA as the best example of that)
I actually remember trying out for the Gran Turismo Academy for Gran Turismo 5. This is why I loved the movie because I was actually involved in this story as well! NOTE: I didn't even make the first 20,000 let alone the first 20. But I felt glad that I entered the Challenge.
It seems like his career was a bit all over the place, being so good he was just kept on climbing the ranks. The movie was great and it was definitely inspiring. Coming back from such a traumatic accident takes guts and skill.
In the same vein, Id love to see you do a video on Jimmy Broadbent. Hes proof that not only sim racers can become real racers, but that its never too late or too much of a ling shot to pursue your dream
I was at the global reveal for the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo the night before the Chicago Auto Show in 2015. A bunch of Nissan and GT Academy people were there, including Jann. I wasn't confident enough to talk much to him, but he genuinely seemed like a cool dude that couldn't wait go race LMP1 at Le Mans. It was so cool being in that room as one of the first to see that car and their whole program launch. And then within that same year it was dead :(
I think the story of the first GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordóñez, it's very underrated, having in mind that he was the first of all, going to the absolutely unknown, and having a pretty good career after that. His success was the seed that made posible to people like Jann became driver too, because without that success, Nissan would have been shut down all the project fast, and instead, they felt encouraged to look for more talents like Ordóñez and Mardenborough. As I said, pretty underrated. Needs more recognition.
This is what I disappointed the most about the movie. I get it they did the movie for promotional purposes, imho, they should acknowledge and mention about Ordonez as the 1st GT Academy Winner.
So you can really go from sim racing to the real thing?? How the hell do you afford the car? The practice time in the real car? All the fees, etc etc….I don’t get it.
Alot of people don't realize that this is exactly how Martin Truex Jr also got discovered (On Nr2003 of all things). And just like that, Dale Jr got him signed up (First to his previous Chance 2 Motorsports team, then to DEI)
I never knew, what was the origin story of the GT Academy was but yeah... I enjoyed the Gran Turismo movie really much. But I was really confused, that everything outside the actually race tracks was just Hungaroring. I mean, it might be (and probably is) that you switched from actually Silverstone from Hungaroring or Le Mans sometimes to Hungaroring. That kicked me out of immersion
He was living the dream. That's how excited I have been about the movie since I saw how that guy made it from the PlayStation to a GT-R. I know the drama movies need to have these days, but I don't care, it's a truly inspiring story. Edit: I loved the movie. Way better than NFS, and while it has its "Hollywood" element, it's amazing for almost every people.
Pretty bloody good, just like your vids. A mate of mine, Kenny Herremans, was a bit of a backmarker in that Nissan Academy program. Kept on soldiering on in Belgian Ford Fiesta Sprint cups and now does pretty well in Euro GT4 ... It wasn't a total waste for a broke bloke from Belgium.
12:48 probably my biggest nitpick from the movie. No amount of text that said Le Mans can change the fact that the Hungaroring is still the Hungaroring
I've been obsessed with the Gran Turismo games. I have lived within a 30-minute distance from the Hungaroring for two decades and was really looking forward to an incredible cinematic experience like 2013's Rush from Ron Howard! Unfortunately, I've set the bar too high and the film couldn't have lived up to my expectations. The idea of the game is to feel like a 'Real Racing Driver' with lifelike models of machinery and courses! The movie was unable to give back the same feel, and as you have said Josh, being a bit of a racing nerd and someone who's a frequent visitor to the filming location in real life, the immersion was broken. No amount of CG could mask it once you've seen it, although they did mask the 'HUNGARORING' sign of the main building with an extra layer of reflective windows. Going backwards on the track layout also didn't do anything. Credit where credit's due, they did manage to shoehorn in the Mulsanne Straight with some in-game footage to the layout!😂 I'm sure Jann is happy anyway getting a well-deserved movie, and a Josh Revell video made about his journey! Well done, Sir!
Even though the movie's story didnt completely follow along the true story, it was a good movie overall for both non-racing and racing fans nonetheless. I honestly was spectical about the movie since racing movies have had a few horrid attempts of depicting decent racing but the movie was really enjoyable actually and the cinematography was on point
I always love hearing the story of Jann Mardenborough. Its such an inspiring story and he was a man on a mission. Went from gaming on gran turismo to racing with people who raced their whole lives and he was able to hold up against them. A fairytale story :) The movie on the other hand... Was alright. What pissed me off the most about it was the shots of le mans... The final turn was of the short layout and somehow there were a lot of shots of the hungaring thrown in there...For a non motorsport viewer that is completely fine... But for motorsport fans its a thing that makes your fucking blood boil
I'm Japanese Motorsport lover and for us Jann is just as a good driver regardless his background and when I was kids I didn’t know this background but I saw him as a good talent driver and he made good results in Japanese category so I was surprised and everyone was surprised after 2020 he lost Super GT seat! We still want him back to Super GT 500 and we still remember his stunning his Japanese F3 season! At that time Toms( Kenya Yamashita ) had been dominating the season but he compete that team even he was not driver for Toms! I really wanna him back to full time race driver and I hope he back to Japanese category!
Love this guy's story and career but it still amuses me how Nissan decided to send him to lemans along with 5 other drivers to pilot two basically unfinished cars and to add insult to injury Nissan decided to cancel the project the following year.
Years ago I thought to myself that turismo should make a movie. I never thought they would make one about a young man like this. 😮. But I have to say he earned it, at least comparatively. I pray Jann Mardenbrough much more success. Despite its imperfections, Gran Turismo has always been “my favorite game “. 😊
i watched the movie 10/10 the most eerie part of the actual movie is at the end where they showed side by sides they even replicated his childhood photos
Really like the video man you made it seem like a documentary with all the information really appreciate it as I didn't know much about jann or the game racers before the movie so this video was very good thanks
I know this is totally irrelevant but everytime i watch a video on a driver of extraordinary talent be it kimi antonelli , jann or anybody else i just get more and more respectful towards max (verstappen i mean ) these guys are so talented still couldn't reach F1 or be a champion how insanely talented must he be to get there at the age of 16 only just insane unfathomable how he must be behind the wheel of a car
GT Academy really suited guys who didn't have a full time job - I did have one so only had time to give it a handful of tries at the time. If I was practicing all day like these guys I reckon I would've had a good shot of progressing haha. Was well within the top 1000 after only a few goes. ... I can dream.
GT Academy is a big slap to boomers who always think that gaming only waste time and has no benefit. That kind of programme should still be alive to this day.
I wanna say, it surprised me when i saw how well he did in the Toyota Racing Series in 2013, especially because he could not deliver in European F3 that same year
This movie inspired me to conquer my fear of driving and ironically my first video game purchase was Gran Turismo on the PS1. Jann and I also share the same birth year (1991) his story means a lot to me.
I keep seeing so many complaining about how "Inaccurate it is" when it came to the tracks and as someone who followed Jann's career I know this but folks don't seem to realize that you can't completely go 1:1 with this without basically going broke. - Filming at Le Mans of all places was NEVER gonna happen. Good luck convincing the French Government to just close down their public roads for filiming (AND ponying up the cash for spending multiple days there). And even if it was during the event, do you guys not understand how busy the Le Mans Week is? Hell it would've been a miracle at this year's massive anniversary event (Which you know was booked to hell and back). - Its not as simple as turning up to a track, just having cameras and cars. You have to pay to be there and with how many tracks Jann was at over his career and the amount of days spent just at one of them filiming, try to guess how much money that would've amounted to just to have every single track accurately represented filming at them (Go ahead, I'll wait). I guarantee you it was simply cheaper to do a good portion of them at the Hungaroring then it would've been to actually have all of them. Friendly reminder that the movie "Le Mans" (The one I'm sure many have used to justify said complaints) bombed at the box office. Guess that extra realism really helped, didn't it? Oh and btw, Jann was involved in this film from day 1 (Which was back in 2017) so there's your guy if you want to complain about inaccuracies. Also: where exactly where you folks when Ron Howard did similar things with Rush? I guarantee the same thing was done with Ford Vs Ferrari and I guarantee the same will happen with the upcoming Ferrari Movie (And going off the not too bad numbers both the former movies did, it'll still do well and prove that the inaccuracies don't mean squat in front of the movie going audience, which is exactly what this is aimed at). It is simply more cheaper and practical to make up the other tracks and just shoot at an existing one or two then trying to book a shit ton of track days at alot of tracks (which WILL add up in addition to all the cost for catering, crew and equipment). At the end of the day, its a Movie. Throw away your brains and just watch it.
That was why I was NOT expecting this movie. My friends that are into sims and automotive called me weird because I said It will be not good. Not bad but not good will be a super hyped drama, with lots of crazy fights and hollywood crap. But hey... its good he got the attention he is cool. Hope he get a good cut of money. The good - as a track assistant I WOULD ENCOURAGE SIM RACERS TO TRY THEIR LOCAL TRACK! I hope more and more young blood assisting the local track open track days and local racing! The bad - The Sim racers that will try their cars in the streets...and put in danger other people and themself.
Josh, you should make a video about Agustín Canapino. He started playing simulators as a kid and now he has just completed his first IndyCar full season at 33 yo for Juncos Hollinger Racing. He won 15 titles in touring cars championships in Argentina (including 4x Turismo Carretera titles and 2x TC2000 titles).
"Sim racecar drivers can be real racecar drivers." Can't wait til they come out with the iRacing movie about William Byron. He's... gotten a little bit further in his racing career than Jann did, despite not starting racing in actual cars until he was 15. Jann's a cool guy though, I got to chat with him when he was racing in Super GT
Not gonna lie, As a story of Rise and Falls, I think Jimmy Broadbents life would make for an interesting watch, Especially after what he achieved with Praga
This is a fantastic documentary. The only thing missing in an interview with him, and what he's up to these days. I'd still be playing GT5 shuffle 300pp rooms if they hadn't shut down the server! We had some groups that made up games like golfing a fiat 500 around the track with a Lambo and the lowest pp cars on the hilly dirt track. I was NOT a fan of grinding those Nissan challenges for 1/1000's of a second.
The very thin triggering me the most was the LeMans race. They literally raced half on the Hungaro ring! That was not LaSarthe for the most part. The rest was fine. But the track action… ugh… that bothered me with the inaccurate tracks.
I was lucky enough to meet Jann Mardenbrough at my local karting track 2 years ago, he’s such a nice guy, and I was fortunate to meet him. I will always have huge respect for him.
Same from my experience. Super down to earth. Pretty timid for a racing driver
Sup Charles :D
@@JanWaibel_Official omg, it’s 🗿
Holy shit your hella lucky
I am lucky enough to be his perants next-door nabors
For those that think these are just games, Max Verstappen, the current F1 world champion, is one of the most active simracers in the world. And in his position he could race in whatever category he wanted to, but instead he prefers to do simracing to try different categories. These "games" have gotten that good over the years.
And the companies developing them strive to make them as realistic as possible - within the boundaries of a simulation, of course.
Blanket statements like this don't tell the whole story, not all games are created equal. You have sim racing games and you have arcade racing games, (and simcade, which falls somewhere in the middle) sim racing games is what Max Verstappen is playing.
jimmy broadbent got a seat in a prada prototype because of his sim racing
Don't Lando and Charles also regularly stream sim-racing?
And on this day and age where sim racing developers going all out with laser scanning a whole circuit and getting direct access to many car manufacutres just to make it as close as possible, just state for itself. This is as close as we can get from a bedroom to an actual race car
His father scored a goal against Liverpool, and he scored a goal against the odds, awesome story!
Who was his dad playing for unless I have it confused I might see his dad watching his other brother or potential maybe cousin play at my local non League side I believe it his brother who did play for Wales. Although the name of this Jann's mum doesn't match the guy I know who was commenting on fans of a higher side slating him as he returned to our club. But the person who is apparently his mum mentioned Jann on Facebook I have no idea if she loosely related like a Stepmum to him and this guy is her actual son.
@@lorddarlo6194 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mardenborough
Cardiff fc it says in the film@@lorddarlo6194
@@lorddarlo6194 Apparently it was the wolves in 1984
So says wikipedia
I was invited to the GT Academy Finals at Silverstone in 2014. I wasn't good enough to qualify on the Gran Turismo 6 route, but I had entered an online competition and scored highly enough to be invited to the Silverstone finals. Unfortunately, I couldn't go as I didn't have a driving license at the time.
But remember, you proved you’re good enough to have that opportunity. That’s cool you entered online competitions and did well.
I did iracing with my 3 closest friends for a long time. I have 2 highlights.
A photo finish win and I had the opportunity to race against former wwe star bob holly who loves iracing. He gives great advice for newbies and he explains everything no matter what the question. His knowledge helped me and my friends figure out road courses. Our struggles on them ended with his advice.
@@Denverbroncos87Amazing story. Both of you. I can't afford racing, not even sim racing which can be as expensive. I could barely scrape together enough for a few local karting sessions.
@@hishamhilal8332 I was too right there. Me and 2 friends couldn’t afford it.
But our other friend ( there was 4 of us)
His dad and step mom had great jobs. His step mom was a model from Japan. His dad worked in a factory with my dad . Due to his step mom being a model, she knows a lot of people. 1 of her closest friends is Michelle yeow. Her husband Jean todt is a good guy. Doesn’t say much. When we all graduated college they bought 4 racing sims so we can race whenever. Michelle and Jean had 1 rule we couldn’t race unless we turned 21, did well in college if any of us graduated before the others, and earned by our actions.
I miss every off from work, we’d race and have a great time randomly picking which tracks to do and if we did daytona/talladega we’d draft together.
I haven’t raced since 2017. I’m now married. 36, but even though all of us got bullied, dealing with that is how we became good friends. I most likely will never race again. But. Idk player TH-cam channel has my iracing fire going. I enjoy watching his streams of iracing.
Bob holly is 1 celebrity/race car driver I miss racing against. A hilarious 1 to race against is jewel. The singer. She was hilarious. She made even the worst wrecks and people angry to laughing and forgetting about it.
Edits: mistakes I made typing. Typing the wrong words by typing to fast and not reading it back before I commented, I asked Michelle and Jean what the rules were for us to race.
@@hishamhilal8332 you can get a G27/29 for like 100 bucks and a copy of Assetto Corsa Ultimate Edition for less than 10 during sales, simracing is nowhere as expensive as it used to be
yes
@lulubelle808
jann grew up in the house next to my mum, janns mum still lives there and I always ask how he's getting on especially when he was in Japan, about a 2 years ago he bought a ferrari which proves his success, and he also brought home a 370z nizmo and let me get a little ride in it, he is absolutely amazing and he loves cars and racing, any time he's home I always speak to him
Seems super chill but he is a gamer we're always friendly
gamer dreams , we gamers too...simulation in other games ofc...
Sooo lucky brooo 🎉
@@Dupylo Depends on the game though haha!
Yeah, the real story is amazing, and honestly, it's more inspiring than the film.
Dude got to live out the dream so many of us have and did so for a decent amount of time. Hats off to him for taking the chance and running with it.
As much as I enjoyed the film, it's incredible to me that they took Jann's story and somehow made it LESS interesting by disregarding many of the details to make it a better advertisement for the PS5/GT7. I really wish they'd committed more to telling the true story, and not just a story based on a true story.
Hated that Le Mans and silverstone was just the Hungaroring
If they put how Jann still raced at Le Mans (with the GT-R LM Nismo) weeks after the Nurburgring crash instead of using it as a plot device for a race that actually happened in 2013, the film will still be good enough for me. The disregard of details for entertainment kinda bugs me
@@darthdingus8642I swear I was going crazy with the Le Mans end sector looking so much like the third sector of the hungaroring
@@dezenove8449 yeah that editing didn’t fool me.
@@darthdingus8642 As a racing fan I can get over it. Most people will never know the difference and it saves production a ton of money.
I really enjoyed the film. I didnt know much about him, but it did open the door to me learning a lot more about him. The movie did take some "liberties" with his story, but I still felt it was a good movie for non-racing fans and racing fans would enjoy it. A bit of a disappointing decision to make a crash that happened a couple years after the movie as a big story element, especially when it resulted in the loss of life though. Kinda felt like they turned a tragedy into a opportunity without paying proper respects to the individual who died and Janns story. However, it was a good movie, the acting was good, the story (minus the crash) was good, and the cinematics were amazing.
Jann gave them the approval to add the crash to the movie.
Especially when they played up Jann’s injuries (irl he had little to no injuries and walked off), I feel it wouldve been more proper to show what actually happened, which was Jann breaking down crying because he realized his car had killed someone just trying to watch a race.
@@KaiserBob99 Ah, okay. I didnt know that. Thanks!
Agreed, real life was better than film depicted. The story deserves a documentary and R.I.P 🙏🏾 to spectator
@@cheddarmx5969they did show a bit of jann having a breakdown about it though
He is also the stunt driver of Gran Turismo movie as well.
We have a same story in Hungary.
Norbert Michelisz. Touring car world CUP winner and 2 times independent champion also started his carrier from the Simworld.
You also have Tim Heineman in DTM at the moment
timing is impeccable, i literally just got home from watching the movie 😭
He's a terrific racer. Hope he's got a seat for next year somewhere, if not during this one. Getting away from Nissan might be the best thing to happen to him given the increase in the hypercar grid (taking over from LMP1) in the last couple of years. More manufacturers are due to join, so it's possible we'll see him up the front again. Very proud of my young countryman! 🏴
I hope he gets a shot at an LMP2 team or hell maybe even Hypercar if he's lucky enough.
He’s still a gold-rated driver in the FIA’s categorisations. There’s certainly worse options out there than Jann…
Honestly i really think a move to Toyota/Lexus could prove beneficial. As far as manufacturers go in Japan (if he still wanted to get into the Japanese scene), Toyota is currently the only brand that has a variety of racing programmes to get into (especially compared to what Nissan has right now).
Toyota/Lexus is currently developing a brand new GT3 car for WEC and other GT series use and it can also be used as a clear stepping stone if he really wants to go to the Hypercar class.
@@AbrahamArthemius that’s not a bad shout - it’s rumoured that AKKodis ASP are parting ways with Mercedes to run Toyota’s WEC GT3 team, which means they’ll be in need of new Pro drivers to replace the factory Merc drivers
@@theocousins6386 Yup, the AKKodis rumour will prove to be a good one if it turns out to be true. Of course they will use the RC F GT3 as a place holder for the GT3 in 2025, but that old gurl can still kick newer machines in the right hand (Vasser Sullivan in IMSA as the best example of that)
Jann and William Byron's back stories are such incredible stories. Definitely an inspiration to keep grinding
Bro that’s what I was thinking
Even though Willy B had connections with Jimmie Johnson through his dad with Liberty University and had a been driving Legends to get where he is now
I actually remember trying out for the Gran Turismo Academy for Gran Turismo 5. This is why I loved the movie because I was actually involved in this story as well!
NOTE: I didn't even make the first 20,000 let alone the first 20. But I felt glad that I entered the Challenge.
It seems like his career was a bit all over the place, being so good he was just kept on climbing the ranks. The movie was great and it was definitely inspiring. Coming back from such a traumatic accident takes guts and skill.
In the same vein, Id love to see you do a video on Jimmy Broadbent. Hes proof that not only sim racers can become real racers, but that its never too late or too much of a ling shot to pursue your dream
I was at the global reveal for the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo the night before the Chicago Auto Show in 2015. A bunch of Nissan and GT Academy people were there, including Jann. I wasn't confident enough to talk much to him, but he genuinely seemed like a cool dude that couldn't wait go race LMP1 at Le Mans. It was so cool being in that room as one of the first to see that car and their whole program launch. And then within that same year it was dead :(
I think the story of the first GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordóñez, it's very underrated, having in mind that he was the first of all, going to the absolutely unknown, and having a pretty good career after that. His success was the seed that made posible to people like Jann became driver too, because without that success, Nissan would have been shut down all the project fast, and instead, they felt encouraged to look for more talents like Ordóñez and Mardenborough.
As I said, pretty underrated. Needs more recognition.
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yeah i was kind of sad that lucas wasn't mentioned, but I guess they couldn't fit everyone in the movie.
This is what I disappointed the most about the movie. I get it they did the movie for promotional purposes, imho, they should acknowledge and mention about Ordonez as the 1st GT Academy Winner.
@@ciello___8307Antonio Cruz is based on Lucas Ordonez
I've just finished watching the film, the timing of this upload is incredible ahah!
I remember seeing how distraught he was when he realised what had happened. RIP to spectator. Best of luck to Jann in the future.
Josh Berry is taking a similar route. He was discovered playing iRacing by Dale Earnhardt Jr.
He is scheduled to go full time in NASCAR next year
Funny... three racecar drivers, all with names that start with J, all started as sim racers:
Jann Mardenborough
Josh Berry
Jimmy Broadbent
So..... Josh Revell is next?
William Byron?
So you can really go from sim racing to the real thing?? How the hell do you afford the car? The practice time in the real car? All the fees, etc etc….I don’t get it.
Alot of people don't realize that this is exactly how Martin Truex Jr also got discovered (On Nr2003 of all things). And just like that, Dale Jr got him signed up (First to his previous Chance 2 Motorsports team, then to DEI)
THANK U FOR THIS! Great story and great story telling gentlemen 👏🏿👏🏿
I never knew, what was the origin story of the GT Academy was but yeah...
I enjoyed the Gran Turismo movie really much. But I was really confused, that everything outside the actually race tracks was just Hungaroring. I mean, it might be (and probably is) that you switched from actually Silverstone from Hungaroring or Le Mans sometimes to Hungaroring. That kicked me out of immersion
It was more the fact that they where running around the hungaroring backwards was more of the issue I had. That’s what kicked me out of the immersion.
@@lchollies3651 Ohohoho right. I just saw it and said; Yep, seems absolutely legit xD
He was living the dream. That's how excited I have been about the movie since I saw how that guy made it from the PlayStation to a GT-R. I know the drama movies need to have these days, but I don't care, it's a truly inspiring story.
Edit: I loved the movie. Way better than NFS, and while it has its "Hollywood" element, it's amazing for almost every people.
Bro Im living a gta lifestyle....how cool is that...gaming inspires my every heartbeats
The fact that he did in 10 years what most drivers say took them OVER TWO AND A HALF, its astonishing.
He's a race car driver. A well deserved one.
wot
Do you mean two and a half decades?
Lmfaoo What? Is This Sarcasm Or A Typo? 😂
Pretty bloody good, just like your vids.
A mate of mine, Kenny Herremans, was a bit of a backmarker in that Nissan Academy program. Kept on soldiering on in Belgian Ford Fiesta Sprint cups and now does pretty well in Euro GT4 ... It wasn't a total waste for a broke bloke from Belgium.
Makes you wonder about all the great drivers that just never got an opportunity
Many GT Academy alumni have decent racing career
12:48 probably my biggest nitpick from the movie. No amount of text that said Le Mans can change the fact that the Hungaroring is still the Hungaroring
Ah yes, the movie when games help you get skill instead of skill issues
Josh Revell - "thanks to the movie and skillshare. Skillshare is..."
SR [down]
PENALTY: 00:05:00
Causing a controversy
Moral of the story: You just can't beat Goatiffi
😂😂😂😂😂😂
This truely felt like i watched a different version of the gran Turismo movie. Thanks a lot
How in the hell have I never got Cameron recommended. The man has a voice that could charm an Eldritch horror.
I've been obsessed with the Gran Turismo games. I have lived within a 30-minute distance from the Hungaroring for two decades and was really looking forward to an incredible cinematic experience like 2013's Rush from Ron Howard! Unfortunately, I've set the bar too high and the film couldn't have lived up to my expectations. The idea of the game is to feel like a 'Real Racing Driver' with lifelike models of machinery and courses!
The movie was unable to give back the same feel, and as you have said Josh, being a bit of a racing nerd and someone who's a frequent visitor to the filming location in real life, the immersion was broken.
No amount of CG could mask it once you've seen it, although they did mask the 'HUNGARORING' sign of the main building with an extra layer of reflective windows. Going backwards on the track layout also didn't do anything.
Credit where credit's due, they did manage to shoehorn in the Mulsanne Straight with some in-game footage to the layout!😂
I'm sure Jann is happy anyway getting a well-deserved movie, and a Josh Revell video made about his journey! Well done, Sir!
Was waiting for this vid since I saw the movie
Jann deserves all of this, what a guy, wishing him more success in the future 💚
William Byron in NASCAR did the same thing with iRacing and currently has 5 wins on the season in the cup series in his 6th year for a total of 9 wins
Even though the movie's story didnt completely follow along the true story, it was a good movie overall for both non-racing and racing fans nonetheless. I honestly was spectical about the movie since racing movies have had a few horrid attempts of depicting decent racing but the movie was really enjoyable actually and the cinematography was on point
Amazing video, actually! one of my favourites from you!
I always love hearing the story of Jann Mardenborough. Its such an inspiring story and he was a man on a mission. Went from gaming on gran turismo to racing with people who raced their whole lives and he was able to hold up against them. A fairytale story :) The movie on the other hand... Was alright. What pissed me off the most about it was the shots of le mans... The final turn was of the short layout and somehow there were a lot of shots of the hungaring thrown in there...For a non motorsport viewer that is completely fine... But for motorsport fans its a thing that makes your fucking blood boil
I'm Japanese Motorsport lover and for us Jann is just as a good driver regardless his background and when I was kids I didn’t know this background but I saw him as a good talent driver and he made good results in Japanese category so I was surprised and everyone was surprised after 2020 he lost Super GT seat!
We still want him back to Super GT 500 and we still remember his stunning his Japanese F3 season!
At that time Toms( Kenya Yamashita ) had been dominating the season but he compete that team even he was not driver for Toms!
I really wanna him back to full time race driver and I hope he back to Japanese category!
When the world needed him the most he vanished
Josh: SIKEEEEEEE
Love this guy's story and career but it still amuses me how Nissan decided to send him to lemans along with 5 other drivers to pilot two basically unfinished cars and to add insult to injury Nissan decided to cancel the project the following year.
James Baldwin is another sim racer that got a real drive in British GT and managed to win a race in the mclaren 720s
Jann's story is beyond incredible. It is miraculous!!
Had the movie not been based on a true story would’ve called bullsh** on the plot because he did the literally impossible! Amazing story.
'Twas a privilege sir 🙏🏾
Noice!
Years ago I thought to myself that turismo should make a movie. I never thought they would make one about a young man like this. 😮. But I have to say he earned it, at least comparatively. I pray Jann Mardenbrough much more success. Despite its imperfections, Gran Turismo has always been “my favorite game “. 😊
I don't comment on anyone's videos very much but I have to say this video gave me chills
i watched the movie 10/10 the most eerie part of the actual movie is at the end where they showed side by sides they even replicated his childhood photos
They were trying to get this kid to F1 by any means necessary. That would have been incredible. Imagine the doors it would have opened up for others.
Max Verstappen is a sim champion but he still started karting.
Three racecar drivers, all with names that start with J, all started as sim racers:
Jann Mardenborough
Josh Berry
Jimmy Broadbent
James Baldwin
Wait that was him in the GTR crash?! Holy crap I didnt know that
Good video an thank you for explain more of the detail about Jann Mardenborough and the Protaganist in the new film.
Really like the video man you made it seem like a documentary with all the information really appreciate it as I didn't know much about jann or the game racers before the movie so this video was very good thanks
Gran Turismo was an amazing movie if only Sony treated it as a true homage to Jann instead of making it as 2 hour Gran Turismo/PS5 and Nissan ad.
There is nothing more heartbreaking than victory that comes in exchange for the death of one person.
I know this is totally irrelevant but everytime i watch a video on a driver of extraordinary talent be it kimi antonelli , jann or anybody else i just get more and more respectful towards max (verstappen i mean ) these guys are so talented still couldn't reach F1 or be a champion how insanely talented must he be to get there at the age of 16 only just insane unfathomable how he must be behind the wheel of a car
Watched the movie and it got me so emotional. What an absolute legend
After watching the movie I thought they must of over inflated his career for the movie but his real life career is even more impressive than the movie
GT Academy really suited guys who didn't have a full time job - I did have one so only had time to give it a handful of tries at the time. If I was practicing all day like these guys I reckon I would've had a good shot of progressing haha. Was well within the top 1000 after only a few goes. ... I can dream.
GT Academy is a big slap to boomers who always think that gaming only waste time and has no benefit. That kind of programme should still be alive to this day.
Great Vid...Great story. Looking forward to seeing the film. Thanks
Awesome info man, thanks!
Respect and thanks for making a vid on this topic, and as always it’s a great vid
The real story is so impressive, the film was great, I have no gripes
"Gamers can't be racers😡" mfs when a proper training and funding can make anybody turn into professionals at a particular mastery of subject🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
I wanna say, it surprised me when i saw how well he did in the Toyota Racing Series in 2013, especially because he could not deliver in European F3 that same year
This was a good mini documentary. I think he deserved to have an episode. I thought the movie was surprisingly good myself.
Very nicely summarised
This movie inspired me to conquer my fear of driving and ironically my first video game purchase was Gran Turismo on the PS1. Jann and I also share the same birth year (1991) his story means a lot to me.
Could say the same for Isack Hadjar. I raced him on F1 2019/20 and now he is in F2
Jimmy Broadbent also has a story I would like to watch a movie about
AMAZING movie, didn’t even know all this happened.
I keep seeing so many complaining about how "Inaccurate it is" when it came to the tracks and as someone who followed Jann's career I know this but folks don't seem to realize that you can't completely go 1:1 with this without basically going broke.
- Filming at Le Mans of all places was NEVER gonna happen. Good luck convincing the French Government to just close down their public roads for filiming (AND ponying up the cash for spending multiple days there). And even if it was during the event, do you guys not understand how busy the Le Mans Week is? Hell it would've been a miracle at this year's massive anniversary event (Which you know was booked to hell and back).
- Its not as simple as turning up to a track, just having cameras and cars. You have to pay to be there and with how many tracks Jann was at over his career and the amount of days spent just at one of them filiming, try to guess how much money that would've amounted to just to have every single track accurately represented filming at them (Go ahead, I'll wait). I guarantee you it was simply cheaper to do a good portion of them at the Hungaroring then it would've been to actually have all of them. Friendly reminder that the movie "Le Mans" (The one I'm sure many have used to justify said complaints) bombed at the box office. Guess that extra realism really helped, didn't it?
Oh and btw, Jann was involved in this film from day 1 (Which was back in 2017) so there's your guy if you want to complain about inaccuracies. Also: where exactly where you folks when Ron Howard did similar things with Rush? I guarantee the same thing was done with Ford Vs Ferrari and I guarantee the same will happen with the upcoming Ferrari Movie (And going off the not too bad numbers both the former movies did, it'll still do well and prove that the inaccuracies don't mean squat in front of the movie going audience, which is exactly what this is aimed at). It is simply more cheaper and practical to make up the other tracks and just shoot at an existing one or two then trying to book a shit ton of track days at alot of tracks (which WILL add up in addition to all the cost for catering, crew and equipment). At the end of the day, its a Movie. Throw away your brains and just watch it.
The Last Starfighter is coming into fruition.
Thank you for the video
I cant believe its been a over decade since that first GT Academy, damn
Lucas Ordoñez is the OG Gran Turismo Academy driver
Damn just think if he could have started in real cars a couple of years earlier. But a Le Mans podium is brilliant stuff nothing to scoff at
The GT movie brings me here!
Just got to meet jann today, really nice guy
The movie wasnt the best made, but I enjoyed it and that's how I found this video. Great story :)
That was why I was NOT expecting this movie. My friends that are into sims and automotive called me weird because I said It will be not good. Not bad but not good will be a super hyped drama, with lots of crazy fights and hollywood crap. But hey... its good he got the attention he is cool. Hope he get a good cut of money.
The good - as a track assistant I WOULD ENCOURAGE SIM RACERS TO TRY THEIR LOCAL TRACK! I hope more and more young blood assisting the local track open track days and local racing!
The bad - The Sim racers that will try their cars in the streets...and put in danger other people and themself.
Josh, you should make a video about Agustín Canapino. He started playing simulators as a kid and now he has just completed his first IndyCar full season at 33 yo for Juncos Hollinger Racing. He won 15 titles in touring cars championships in Argentina (including 4x Turismo Carretera titles and 2x TC2000 titles).
I watched it today as well and I thought it was freaking awesome
Tbh the movie was like a 6.5, maybe a 7, and it has so much potential
For me it 5 out of 10 at best
the amount of "wait, that was him??" moments I had while watching this video is insane. Definitely a great racer!
Talk about high hopes for the first chance on the track
thanks for the content mate :D
That Molly Mae Hague reference got me
I hope Jann gets a reliable and competitive drive somewhere 😊
"Sim racecar drivers can be real racecar drivers."
Can't wait til they come out with the iRacing movie about William Byron. He's... gotten a little bit further in his racing career than Jann did, despite not starting racing in actual cars until he was 15. Jann's a cool guy though, I got to chat with him when he was racing in Super GT
The collab with Mr. ASMR himself was nice to see.
That was a Great Inspiring Movie! Could be a Classic! Has your Basic Karate Kid Theme of Teacher/Mentor and Underdog/Student.
Not gonna lie, As a story of Rise and Falls, I think Jimmy Broadbents life would make for an interesting watch, Especially after what he achieved with Praga
The movie gave me a whole new respect for racers.
This is a fantastic documentary. The only thing missing in an interview with him, and what he's up to these days. I'd still be playing GT5 shuffle 300pp rooms if they hadn't shut down the server! We had some groups that made up games like golfing a fiat 500 around the track with a Lambo and the lowest pp cars on the hilly dirt track.
I was NOT a fan of grinding those Nissan challenges for 1/1000's of a second.
After watching the movie, I’d come to TH-cam to get more information about Jann.
The very thin triggering me the most was the LeMans race. They literally raced half on the Hungaro ring! That was not LaSarthe for the most part. The rest was fine. But the track action… ugh… that bothered me with the inaccurate tracks.